The Shop That Put the Swing in Swinging London
At Granny Takes a Trip, the Chelsea clothing store whose customers included John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and Lou Reed, it was difficult to tell who was a pop star and who wasn’t
Is Sam Altman a Psycho C.E.O.?
Without guilt or guardrails, the co-founder of OpenAI has created a trillion-dollar empire built on appropriation, bootlicking, and slop
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Un-Maintenance
Steve McQueen’s granddaughter is suing for ownership of a $68 million Jackson Pollock painting, which the actor allegedly swapped for a motorcycle that never appeared
Religious Nuts
From salted peanuts to caffeinated wine to CBD-infused tea, churches, monasteries, and convents create some of the world’s finest gourmet victuals
The View from Here
The Trump administration has waged war on higher education. Why aren’t more university presidents speaking up?
The Attention-Whore Index
Donald Trump damns himself, Prince Andrew dooms himself, and Kristi Noem deludes herself
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This week in American health: Democratic governors unite against an increasingly insane R.F.K. Jr.; Cheryl Hines and Olivia Nuzzi speak their truth; and more
The Attention-Whore Index
Pete Hegseth pushes up, Kash Patel punches down, and Donald Trump sends the National Guard all around
The View from Here
How I learned to stop worrying and love Robert S. McNamara (if not the Vietnam War)
Beware Calabrians Speaking Greek
Nestled among the mountains at the tip of Italy’s boot is a constellation of villages that still speak a Greek dialect dating back more than 3,000 years
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This week in American health: former U.S. surgeon generals sound the alarm, while R.F.K. Jr. sets his sights on … circumcision and sugar beets
The Last Enlightenment Man
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker is battling the woke left and the woo-woo right
When the Art World Lost Its Mind (and Money)
NFTs once promised to revolutionize creativity and commerce. Four years later, the market has collapsed, fortunes have vanished, and the art scene is still reckoning with what it all meant
The Girlbosses Next Door
Whitney Wolfe Herd, of Bumble; Leandra Medine Cohen, of Man Repeller; Audrey Gelman, of the Wing … The female founders are back, baby. Is anyone surprised?
To Catch a Catfish
A former police officer turned private investigator is hunting down romance scammers preying on wealthy, lonely seniors in Australia
What Happened to the Godfather of Pop Art?
How the contents of Larry Rivers’s estate and foundation ended up in a second-tier gallery near New Hope, Pennsylvania
Ladies and Gentlemen, Jilly Cooper
She was a consummate entertainer—as well as a gifted novelist and journalist—and her devoted fans and friends could never get enough
The 40-Year Con: Part III
Once Spiro Pavlovich became Nicholas Rockefeller, he never dropped the charade, even in private. But beneath the “wonderful man,” as he was described by a Yale Law School classmate, lurked a dark, abusive Mr. Hyde
France’s A-Team
Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers reveal how they came to represent the victim in the rape trial that shocked the country
War of the Gourmet Grocers
Fighting over everything from chicken salad to trad-wife protein powder, a spate of Manhattan prepared-food stores are vying to take the place of the mother ship, Dean & DeLuca
The Attention-Whore Index
Prince Harry huffs, Pete Hegseth puffs, and Donald Trump glows up the White House
She Faked Her Way into Yale. Then Things Unraveled
How fabricated transcripts, recommendation letters, and a personal statement about North Dakota fooled the Ivy into admitting a Chinese student from the Bay Area
Man on the Run
Two years after the model Abby Choi was brutally dismembered, troubling new details have emerged about her ex-husband’s criminal past—and how he was able to evade arrest
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This week in American health: TrumpRx gets the green light; R.F.K. Jr.’s neo-Nazi problem; and the abortion wars rage on
