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Is Paris Fuming? Oui!

Our expat in France reports on life during nationwide strikes, now in their third month

Generation in Retrograde

Millennials won’t do anything without consulting their horoscope

Painting the Town (Rectory) Red

The rise and fall of Farrow & Ball, paint purveyors to a vanishing upper class

Living Really Large

Outside Cairo, the biggest man-made structure in the world—an apartment complex for 30,000 residents—is in the works

Going Cold Turkey

Can a millennial survive a week without a smartphone?

Is This the End of the First Amendment?

A startling court ruling makes it easier to jail insider traders—as well as whistleblowers and reporters

Cape of No Hope

Corruption and crime have killed Nelson Mandela’s dream and doomed the country’s future

Et Tu, A.C.L.U.?

How America’s staunchest defenders of free speech lost their nerve

Has Anyone Seen Mrs. Harvey Weinstein?

After this week, his future is suitably bleak. But what about his ex-wife Georgina Chapman’s?

Yiddish Envy

Why Catholic Poles are discovering Jewish roots they don’t even have

Model Land

A theme park for people obsessed with runways, photo shoots, makeovers, and red-carpet rides

Lessons of the Spanish Flu

What can we learn from the 20th century’s deadliest virus outbreak?

We’re All Germophobes Now

And it’s time to end the handshake madness

The Great Plague Diaries

Samuel Pepys’s 1665 account of life in London ravaged by bubonic plague is all too familiar in 2020

Ménage à Trop

We broke up in June, but our house still hasn’t sold. Now we can’t even go outside …

“Sweetheart, Can I Reach Out to You?”

When office-speak creeps into the boudoir

Fiddling While Britain Burns

Boris Johnson’s laissez-faire view of the pandemic defies the world—and science

Snack Attack!

The founders of a podcast for investment-savvy millennials talk as quickly as the markets move

Doctor’s Orders

“Don’t think it is happening here and it can’t happen everywhere else”: Italy urges the world to learn from its own war with the coronavirus

Top Dog

In only his second attempt, Thomas Waerner trekked across nearly 1,000 miles of Alaskan wilderness to clinch dogsledding’s greatest prize

Off the Bottle

Among all the issues that the coronavirus raises, bottle blondes have another to add to the list: their highlights are quickly fading

Sex and the Single Meme

How did getting rejected become the key to social acceptance?

“What’s His Story?”

An infectious-disease specialist treats his first coronavirus patient

Infantilized

Why are women paying $20,000 for what’s in the back seat? (Hint: it’s not the bag)