Pickleball Be Damned!
In Los Angeles, padel—a cross between squash, tennis, and racquetball—is becoming the sport of choice for the 0.1 percent
Working from Yacht
Forget W.F.H.—with the help of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite-Internet service, the rich are taking remote work to new depths
Naked and Underpaid
From Michelangelo to Picasso, nude models have long been undercompensated muses to the greats. Now, in Florence, they’re threatening to strike
All That Glitters Isn’t Gold
Trump’s garish redecoration of the White House rivals the interior-design tastes of Saddam Hussein and King Midas
An Auctioneer Prepares: Christie’s
With art sales increasingly moving outside the salesroom, the Adrien Meyer schmooze-fest never stops
California Leavin’
As out-of-state shooting locations increasingly lure filmmakers, Hollywood risks becoming to movies what Detroit has become to car manufacturing: an industry hub turned ghost town
Who’s Afraid of #SkinnyTok?
Ready or not, thin is back in—and people have no qualms talking about it
The Potemkin Kingdom
Gateway KSA offers students from the world’s top universities all-expenses-paid luxury trips to Saudi Arabia. What’s the catch?
Good-bye, Mr. Xi
When rich Chinese families send their children to English boarding schools, they pay for guardians to take care of their offsprings’ logistical—and emotional—needs
Red, White, and Blues
America was once a fun, free, brave, and happy melting pot, but, as one Canadian argues, those days are seemingly over—at least for now
A Mitzvah on Division Street
Alison Roman, Andy Baraghani, and Sascha Seinfeld gathered at Sunn’s restaurant, in New York’s Chinatown, for a Korean-style Passover Seder
A Waste of Space
The world expected cosmic wisdom from Katy Perry, who joined Lauren Sánchez’s all-women space trip aboard the Blue Origin rocket. Instead, we got a setlist for her new tour
A New Defender of the Realm
British industrialist Jim Ratcliffe may not be the most loved man in Britain, but the Ineos Grenadier, his answer to Land Rover’s reworking of its flagship model, is soaring in popularity
Who Is the Queen of #RichTok?
In just a few weeks, Becca Bloom has attracted millions of followers on TikTok for embodying “rich people who rich right”
Bonkers for Britain
“Cheeky!” “Dodgy!” “Cheers!” America’s Gen Z is embracing Britishisms like there’s no tomorrow
Holy Smokes!
A new generation of French women is smoking more cigarettes than ever before. Pour quoi?
Dusk of the Ump
Baseball umpires are on their way out. But what will players, coaches, and fans do if there’s nobody to yell at?
A League of Their Own
A cottage industry has sprung up at Harvard, Penn, and other Ivy League colleges, providing nepo babies and children of the ultra-wealthy a luxury alternative to campus living
March (of) Madness
Signalgate or Greenland? Putin or DOGE? With AIR MAIL’s interactive bracket, you can decide the maddest moment yet of the Trump presidency
Riding High
Museum-quality saddles, free-flowing champagne, and the finest show jumping in the world make the Saut Hermès competition much more than an equestrian’s paradise
Down the Tubes
With Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports driving up the cost of a key ingredient in American toilet paper, experts say a shortage may well be on the horizon
The Cult of Leica
The German camera company, which has supplied photographers from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Annie Leibovitz and sabotaged the Third Reich during W.W. II, turns 100 this year
It’s a MAGA Man’s World
At Operation Black Site, a three-day training camp in California, right-wing “entrepreneurs” shoot guns and practice handcuffing—preparing for an America under siege
They’ll Take the Lot!
Interior design meets soap opera in the latest high-end real-estate trend, where the wealthy approach homeowners with no desire to sell and buy their houses turnkey—down to the tchotchkes
