Inside the Music
An insightful critic and a skilled jazz pianist in his own right, David Yaffe had the rare ability to parse both the mechanics and the mysteries of a song
The Attention-Whore Index
Mark Zuckerberg raps, Whoopi Goldberg spats, and Sarah Palin strikes back
Unoriginal Sinner
Italy’s little-known, highly suspicious history with the same steroids Jannik Sinner tested positive for bodes poorly for the tennis world champion and his massage-table alibi
The View from Here
Bootlegging, drug dealing, Airbnb-ing. Diplomats abandoned by their countries turn to unusual trades to keep the consular lights burning
Oh, Brother!
Queen Elizabeth always preferred the boorish Andrew to the sensitive Charles. Is the King finally getting revenge on his disgraced sibling by cutting him off financially?
A Blue-Blooded Highland Fling
The 21-year-old niece of King Charles—Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor—has got the rumor mill churning at the same university where Prince William first met Kate Middleton
The Sins of the Father
The rape trial of Dominique Pelicot has shocked France. But the story has gotten even darker with the revelation that Pelicot may have drugged and abused his own daughter
The View from Here
How did Thames Water, the U.K.’s largest water company, turn a foolproof monopoly into a $20 billion money pit, leaving the country short on the very commodity it was responsible for supplying?
The Attention-Whore Index
Elon Musk’s wealth becomes engorged, Prince Andrew receives a mysterious handout, and Anthony Weiner exposes himself (to ridicule) yet again
The Shooting of Pretty Boy Melvin
Was Sean “Diddy” Combs’s father murdered by the Gambino crime family?
The Attention-Whore Index
Donald Trump triumphs, Elon Musk gloats, and Tucker Carlson gets mauled by a demon (at last!)
Trouble in La-La Land
The Krotona apartments, in L.A.’s Hollywood Hills, once attracted artists, actors, and eccentrics. Now their state of disrepair has pitted neighbor against neighbor
Au Revoir les Voitures!
A radical plan to reduce traffic in Paris is underway. Will it reduce the capital’s deadly road-rage incidents?
The View from Here
The biggest threats to Trump’s agenda won’t be elements of the opposition. They will be his own character—and fate
There’s No Place Like Ontario Place
Once home to a public park and architectural marvels, an island off the shore of the idyllic Lake Ontario is being turned into a big-budget spa, to the ire of some locals
Twisted Sister
A nun named Gertrude is the face of one of the buzziest craft breweries in Belgium. But in a previous life, she conspired to commit genocide in Rwanda
Waiting to Regale
From attending the Queen’s coronation and suffering familial tragedy to becoming friends with Mick Jagger and learning to cook at 86, Lady Glenconner is the quintessential survivor
Not in My Bar Harbor
Locals are up in arms over a cruise-ship monopoly that’s quickly turning a quaint coastal town into the Venice of Maine
Undecided? Moi?
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is apoplectic at the political ads bombarding his Pennsylvania home
The View from Here
There is a lot at stake this Election Day—not least the legacy of the baby-boom generation
Surviving Mohamed Al Fayed
More than 250 women have accused the late owner of Harrods of sexually assaulting them. Now six speak out about their experiences
The Attention-Whore Index
Donald Trump rallies, Jeff Bezos censors, and Timothée Chalamet multiplies
Ladies and the Tramp
An I.T. employee at the elite Kent boarding school, in Connecticut, downloaded photos from 70 under-age female students’ laptops. Then he moved on to Yale
The Billionaire and the Rabble Army
Sir James Goldsmith’s short-lived Referendum Party spent lavishly but won few votes. Three decades later, its neo-populist politics are roiling the Western world
