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The Property-Whore Index

Billionaires like nothing better than getting into property battles with their equally rich neighbors. This week we chart the worst offenders

Another Prophecy Fulfilled

Published nearly 20 years ago, the visionary writer J. G. Ballard’s final novel foreshadowed the anti-immigrant riots that roiled the U.K. this summer

Mean Green Streets

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Patti Smith have joined forces to save a much-loved garden in downtown New York

The Encryption Kid

Long before his arrest for allegedly enabling cyber-crime, Telegram creator Pavel Durov used his talents to create a Russian Facebook, organize college beauty contests, and help classmates cheat on exams

The Attention-Whore Index

Donald Trump angers the Queen, Elon Musk has warlord friends, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drops out

The New York Yacht Club Goes to War

During World War I, the lavish yachts of New York’s richest families—replete with Tiffany interiors and pipe organs—were commandeered into hunting German submarines

Rebel with a Cause

How Philip Weiss went from being “the Dennis Rodman of journalism” to full-time anti-Zionist agitator

Mike Lynch’s Theory of Probability

The British mogul, who died on a super-yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily this week, may have been a genius, but he relied on gut instincts as much as he did his brain

The Far-Right Hand of the Father

How a group of chocolate-making Spanish nuns, a mixologist, and a former Vatican ambassador with ties to Steve Bannon are trying to MAKE CATHOLICISM GREAT AGAIN

The Cutthroat World of Formula One

As the Italian Grand Prix approaches, Ferrari is desperate to win on its home track—and ruthless in its pursuit of success

The View from Here

Kimberly Guilfoyle’s personal and professional relationships—and their circular connections to Trump—condensed into one sentence

The View from Here

America’s historically Black colleges and universities produced Kamala Harris. They also hired Jewish World War II refugees when the Ivy League wouldn’t

The Attention-Whore Index

Ukraine is invading, Elon Musk is glitching, and Donald Trump is blithering

The Rake Man of Huntting Lane

Who was the aggressive recluse who lived in the dilapidated mansion on one of East Hampton’s most exclusive streets?

The Sussex Meat Grinder

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s chief of staff has bolted after just three months. He’s not alone

The New Look of Mormons

Opting for pomp over piety, wealthy Mormons in Salt Lake City are throwing lavish parties for teenagers to open their mission calls

Hamas in America: The Untold Story

An AIR MAIL investigation reveals the deep roots linking a web of U.S.-based charities and activist groups to the architects of October 7

The View from Here

If J. D. Vance had bothered to check, he would have learned about another aspiring politician who made childlessness a campaign slur

Child’s Pay

Entrepreneurial teenagers are swapping traditional after-school activities for side hustles, from content editing to crypto investing

The Attention-Whore Index

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bears all, Clarence Thomas is allergic to flying coach, and J. D. Vance keeps stepping on rakes

MrBeast Shows His Fangs

Jimmy Donaldson’s outlandishly generous stunts get millions of views—and earn him hundreds of millions of dollars—but is his dark side starting to come out?

An Unfair Crack of the Whip

The world of Olympic equestrianism was rocked by the recent leaked video of one of its brightest stars severely whipping a horse. Can the sport ever recover?

Hillbilly Elegy Revisited

Was J. D. Vance’s best-selling memoir the work of a single author with an unbelievable life story—or did it take a village?

L’Affaire Negresco

In her final years, Hotel Negresco owner Jeanne Augier was surrounded by all sorts of interlopers. What’s to become of her $500 million fortune—and one of the crown jewels of the French Riviera?