The Naked Truth
In 2003, my novel about a woman who attends an awards show naked was dismissed as too far-fetched. A second Trump administration replaced fiction with fact—and laid bare American misogyny
It Never Ends with Them
As their frenzied mudslinging intensifies, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni seem to share a single goal: mutually assured destruction
Bridget Jones’s Substack
As the frazzled heroine returns to the cinema, we couldn’t help but wonder: How would Bridget Jones navigate Gen Z’s New York City?
The Muse Who Became a Sage
Marianne Faithfull inspired some of the greatest songs of the 60s and left her own indelible mark on the music of Brecht and Bob Dylan alike
The View from Here
Trump’s model of political leadership? A cigar-chomping, baseball-bat-swinging, mobbed-up Brooklyn boss
“I Was Hounded, Day In, Day Out”
Alice Nderitu, the U.N.’s former special adviser on the prevention of genocide, on her contentious tenure. An AIR MAIL exclusive
To Live and Die in L.A.
As residents reckon with the wildfires, some experts question whether Los Angeles is a modern-day Pompeii—and a harbinger of American decline
The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire
A 1917 document grants Britain the right of first refusal to buy Greenland—casting a shadow over Donald Trump’s grand plans for the ice sheet
The View from Here
By towing the crypto line—and cashing in himself—Donald Trump has inadvertently revealed the industry’s true face. And it’s not pretty
The Attention-Whore Index
Elon Musk is raising heil, DeepSeek is causing angst, and Donald Trump is bringing back the Sturm und Drang
Frazzle-Dazzle
With topknots, too-big cardigans, and well-worn Mulberry bags, Bridget Jones is back—and so is her frazzled aesthetic
Moving Mountains
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is transforming Utah’s Powder Mountain into a private members’ club. Is he the ski resort’s savior or its saboteur?
A Plague O’ All Your Villas!
After devastating Naples, an invasive American insect has made its way to Rome, killing the city’s classic umbrella pine trees by the thousands
The Princess Bribes
Swindlers on TikTok are impersonating 19-year-old Princess Leonor, the much-beloved heir to the Spanish throne—and cheating her fans out of hundreds of dollars
The Pelosi Effect
A trend for following the stock-buying habits of U.S. members of Congress has left some copycat investors 800 percent up
From Brad to Worse
How a scammer impersonating Brad Pitt used A.I. imagery to seduce a wealthy French divorcée—and then conned her out of almost $1 million
The Girl Who Loved Hitler
The diaries of Unity Mitford—the “Nazi” Mitford sister—have been discovered. They reveal the unhinged infatuation she felt toward the Führer
Kabul Syndrome
Women forced into submission by the Taliban are beginning to identify with their captors, even when forbidden from looking out the window
The Strange Case of the Presidential-Pardon Pro
A top clemency expert’s story is even more twisted than his findings—including Rutherford B. Hayes’s 24 murder pardons
The Health-Care Blame Game
Brian Thompson’s murder revealed a simmering rage toward the insurance industry. But are health executives responsible for the public’s woes or are they just well-paid cogs?
The View from Here
Disenchantment with D.E.I. was a boon for Trump. But will his crusade against wokeness repel recent MAGA converts?
The War on Jugs
Is Lauren Sánchez’s décolletage—as seen most recently at Trump’s inauguration—a symbol of the political cleavage between today’s left and right?
The Battle for Club Med
When a Chinese “gray rhino” bought the quintessential European travel firm, a struggle for the soul of the French icon broke out
The Attention-Whore Index
Donald Trump goes low, Elon Musk goes Sieg heil!, and Mark Zuckerberg goes so macho
