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Sam Bankman-Fried is begging, Elon Musk is wrecking, and the Markles are heckling

Bombshell

A 7,600-pound nuclear weapon has been languishing off the coast of Georgia since 1958, when it was lost by the U.S. Air Force during a Cold War training exercise. What could possibly go wrong?

The Last Spies of Paris

Unlike porters in London or doormen in New York, Paris’s omnipresent gardiennes—the eyes and ears of Haussmann buildings—are fast disappearing

The View from Here

A New York City pediatric infectious-diseases doctor never thought he’d see a vicious resurgence of measles, an entirely preventable illness, in his lifetime. He was wrong

About a Boycott

From German musicians to Canadian hockey fans, the world is turning its back on Trump’s America

The Silver Fox Is Back, Baby!

From George Clooney to The White Lotus’s Jason Isaacs, to Canada’s new prime minister, men over the age of 60 are having a moment

Employee of the Month

Not Our Jam

Of all the problems plaguing the new Netflix series With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex’s fixation on jam is only the beginning

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R.F.K. Jr. embraces the measles, Marco Rubio gets the needle, and Donald Trump causes more upheaval

The View from Here

Is Donald Trump doing a “Reverse-Nixon”? (It’s even worse than it sounds)

The Godfather of Punk

As the glam lead singer of the New York Dolls, David Johansen changed music forever

The Men Who Would Be King

Although most of France has moved on from the Revolution of 1789, there is a pocket of French society that yearns for the return of a monarch. But who should it be?

Wild Ride

Tesla used to be the car of choice for virtue-signaling Democrats. Now, as liberals all over the world are unloading their “Swasticars,” will the Fox News set fill the void?

The View from Here

The anti-woke intelligentsia applauded Trump’s attacks on D.E.I. What they got instead is the MAGA brand of affirmative action

Save the Philippine Eagle

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Steve Bannon joins the Nazi-salute brigade, Elon Musk sparks even more outrage, and Donald Trump gives up on truth, justice, and the American way

Chiltern Firehouse’s Slow Burn

André Balazs on the fire that brought down his hotel—beloved by Hollywood stars and housed in a former fire station, no less—and what lies ahead for the London hot spot

Is Elon Musk Overvalued?

Trump’s re-election made the world’s richest man even richer. But Musk’s future prospects are far from certain

The Next Big Thing in Book-Club Land? Edge

Being a star isn’t enough anymore. One has to be cool too

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Elon Musk wants your financial information, Eric Adams suffers yet more humiliation, and Donald Trump spins lies without hesitation

Dispatch from Klooga

How a young woman discovered her grandfather’s harrowing Holocaust-survival story, memorialized in a forgotten Life-magazine report by the famed war correspondent John Hersey

A Broke Hallelujah

In the latest twist in a lengthy legal battle, Leonard Cohen’s children have accused their father’s former lawyer of siphoning millions from the singer’s estate

The View from Here

Before he took a chain saw to government spending, Elon Musk used taxpayer funds to turn a failing business into a trillion-dollar company

Sisters in Arms

A new play about the early days of women’s lib asks: Where does the movement go from here?