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Every decade has a reigning ethos—a Zeitgeist, as the Germans say. In the 2020s, it’s smash-and-grab
Living the Dream
Money can’t buy happiness, but from $5,000 smart mattress covers to circadian-tuned private jets, the .1 percent is determined to buy a good night’s sleep
Playing Tennis with Abbie Hoffman
It’s 1974, you’re a Los Angeles sitcom writer, and you’ve just been asked to hit some balls with a notorious fugitive from justice. Where’s your racket?
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Are we getting stupider? The data should be taken with a grain of salt, but the headlines are harder to dismiss
The Attention-Whore Index
After three years cataloguing the world’s most insufferable showboaters, the Attention-Whore Index waves good-bye (and good riddance!)
Rothschild vs. Rothschild
The secretive international-banking family is at each other’s throats over who should own the contents of the baronial home—“a mini Louvre”—holding masterpieces by Goya, Rembrandt, and El Greco
The First Couple of the Online Right
Candace Owens, George Farmer, and the London church where old-world grandeur meets Digital Age grievance
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An urgent message from Santa Claus
The $158 $170 Million Question: Part III
As the Senate investigation into Leon Black and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein intensifies, the billionaire financier’s son joins the Trump administration
AIR MAIL’s Annual Over-Under List
From Yorgos Lanthimos and Labubus to King Charles and the mold at Bathhouse, this year’s most overhyped and underhyped things
Architecture with the Power of Art
Frank Gehry, more than anyone since Frank Lloyd Wright, made cutting-edge buildings that were genuinely popular
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There’s a clear line from Bush v. Gore, 25 years ago, to the January 6 insurrection
The Curious Case of the Narco-Prez Pardon
If you want to smuggle hundreds of tons of drugs into the U.S.—and get pardoned—make sure you’ve got friends in tech places
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Vladimir Putin has spent the past decade re-writing the history of the Soviet collapse in service of his own ends. It worked
Olivia Nuzzi and the Sport of Kings
For the Three Women author, a chance encounter with R.F.K. Jr.’s bird of prey sheds new light on the controversy that launched 1,000 think pieces and journalists to eat their own
Flying Into a Rage over Trump
Noisy air traffic has been diverted from above Mar-a-Lago to other parts of tony Palm Beach. The neighbors are not amused
The Boom Before the Bust
From caviar and Dom Pérignon at Mach 2 to the fatal Air France crash of 2000, former members of the Concorde crew revisit the era of supersonic flight
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How flags—once symbols of patriotism, from children’s classrooms to Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell’s Union Jack dress—got co-opted by the far right
Who Was This Week’s Biggest Attention Whore?
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to put down the knives, Russell Brand wants to save our souls, and much more!
Take Me Home, Canton Roads
Alexis Wilkins—the country-singer girlfriend of F.B.I. director Kash Patel—may warble about pickup trucks and patriotism, but she grew up in an elite Swiss boarding school for billionaires, dictators … and Tucker Carlson
Ghislaine Unchained
Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator—currently serving 20 years for child sex trafficking—is living the high life in jail, complete with puppy visits, snacks and refreshments, and a warden she treats as “her personal secretary”
All the Nuzzi That’s Fit to Print
The R.F.K. Jr. sexting scandal is just scratching the surface of former political reporter turned glitzy magazine editor Olivia Nuzzi’s astounding web of personal entanglements
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Trump’s war on the media has generated a lot of sound and fury, not to mention a handful of well-publicized settlements—but few actual victories in court
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When the mayor of a small beach town in Spain mounted a defense of the bikini in 1953, he had no idea it would trigger the fall of Franco’s Fascist regime
