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
The Attention-Whore Index
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
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
The Next Big Thing in Book-Club Land? Edge
Being a star isn’t enough anymore. One has to be cool too
The Attention-Whore Index
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
How to Almost Get Away with Murder
A group of transgender, ex-Google “radical vegans”—armed with ammunition belts—are quickly shaping up to be a 21st-century Manson family
Ukraine Upended
Ukrainians who endured three years of invasion, bombardments, and devastation are packing up to escape a Trump-brokered peace
Sisters in Arms
A new play about the early days of women’s lib asks: Where does the movement go from here?
Meghan Ever-Lasting
The real tradwife of Montecito just won’t stop. New this week is a rebrand of her lifestyle company, American Riviera Orchard
The Apostate
Trump’s dead-eyed hatchet man in the Justice Department, Emil Bove III, has attacked the very office that taught him the law—and betrayed the ideals he once espoused
In Bad Faith
The only stone left unturned in the Baldoni-Lively saga seems to be Baldoni’s Baha’i faith, an obscure religion that touts unity and forbids backbiting
Trump’s Mini-Me
Paolo Zampolli, the former modeling agent who introduced Melania to Donald, has stayed in the Mar-a-Lago circle, anticipating and echoing the president’s foreign-policy views
Stranded in NewSpace
It’s not just the fate of two marooned astronauts that’s at stake—it’s the future of interstellar travel
Every Woman’s Romantasy
What does the explosive popularity of books by Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros say about female desire today?
The View from Here
Trump’s dismantling of the Justice Department’s anti-corruption units is a going-out-of-business bonanza for dictators, kleptocrats, crooked officials, and organized-crime leaders
Penny Ante
Like so many other of Trump’s diktats aimed at crushing easy targets, his plan to be penny-wise is pound-foolish
The Attention-Whore Index
Elon Musk is selling the farm, J. D. Vance is twisting arms, and for Kanye West, the Third Reich’s the charm
Against All Odds
From ESPN and the Athletic to Bill Simmons and Dave Portnoy, sports media is fueling the online-gambling boom—and becoming utterly reliant upon it
The Attention-Whore Index
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t like your accent, Donald Trump doesn’t like your color, and Russell Brand doesn’t like your sexual-abuse allegations
Tommy Supreme and the Blitz
Tom Goldstein was a star in arguing cases before the Supreme Court. He was also one of the world’s highest-rolling—and most reckless—poker players. Then his worlds collided
