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The Not-So-Dolce Vita

In Italy, the murder of a female university student has riled up women of all ages. Are the protesters reacting to the killing or something deeper?

The Trenches of Academe

Allegations of anti-Semitism have students, faculty, and donors at Harvard in an uproar—and the university’s new president is caught in the middle

The View from Here

Under China’s darkening shadow, Taiwan survives on a cocktail of caution and muted defiance

When the Penguins Went Red

Thirty years ago, the owners of the Pittsburgh Penguins decided to bet big on Moscow’s legendary Red Army hockey team. What came next was both a miracle and a nightmare

Marina Cicogna

The Italian countess transcended her gilded background to become Europe’s first major female film producer

Putin’s Gold Rush

Russian archaeologists are looting Ukrainian museums of gold, artifacts, and weapons that the Kremlin says prove that Russia is an ancient civilization many thousands of years old. (It’s not)

In the Pink

After securing an all-new team for just $25 million in the city of his choice, David Beckham brought Lionel Messi, the world’s most popular player, to Miami and may well have changed the sport in the U.S. forever

The Attention-Whore Index

It’s back! And the cast looks strangely familiar: carroty-blond blowhards, kooky kings, hot-tempered tech gurus, and cringe-worthy congressmen. The seasons change, but Attention Whores will out!

Va-Va-Vroom!

The Las Vegas Grand Prix is decadent and depraved—and a massive commercial success

Unabashedly Arab

The war in Gaza has not stopped New York’s Habibi from dishing out Levantine good vibes

The Sussex Circus Is Back

Harry and Meghan’s mouthpiece has a book out. Spoiler alert: it’s grovelingly kind to them but brutal to everyone else

The View from Here

Male Israeli intelligence officers dismissed warnings from the front lines that a Hamas attack was imminent. It had a lot to do with the fact that the soldiers sounding the alarm were women

Larry Fink

The great photographer, who died last week, left behind a treasure trove of penetrating, perturbing images

Tall Tales

Assessing George Santos’s improbable rise from Brazil to Capitol Hill and his ouster, his biographer warns that the former congressman could be a Donald Trump in the making

Muddy Waters

Last year, the U.S. seized a $300 million yacht belonging to a sanctioned Russian billionaire with close ties to Vladimir Putin. The question is: Which one?

The Parent Trap

For nearly 40 years, and with the support of a Christian evangelical mega-church, Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo have preached a shocking and damaging parenting program to thousands of Americans

Get Out of Town!

These days, the stylish millennial’s favorite means of escape is a gas-guzzling Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van with all the fixins

The View from Here

A.I. might be able to save us from the next pandemic—but can it do anything to save Hollywood from mediocrity?

Bleak House, New York–Style

For a quarter-century, artists, activists, and plutocrats have been battling over the future of a former public school in the East Village. Is the end finally in sight?

The View from Here

Ridley Scott’s new movie, Napoleon, is all sabers and sex. But what’s forgotten about the emperor of France is that he was also an enlightened protector of Jews

Bob Mack

Charming, brilliant, and contrarian in his tastes, the Spy reporter and editor of the Beastie Boys’ magazine, Grand Royal, was as lovable as he was unreliable

Sailing Toward Disaster

On his last pleasure cruise with Jackie and friends, President John F. Kennedy didn’t reveal how besieged he was by Vietnam, civil rights, the Mob, and Fidel Castro. Three months later, he was assassinated

Bait and Switch

Impersonating a Mexican mogul was just the tip of the iceberg for Alberto Fis, a young art-and-sushi aficionado whose Manhattan omakase restaurant disguised a vast web of Inigo Philbrick–style fraud

There’s a Nip in the Air

Loved, lusted over, and frowned upon throughout history, nipples are making a comeback, thanks largely to a single, ultra-perky bra