Sports Immolated
The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer pours one out for Sports Illustrated’s slow demise and recalls how the original idea for his best-selling book Friday Night Lights first appeared in its pages
Skeletons in the Closet
The culture wars have come for Skull and Bones, Yale’s most prestigious—and mysterious—secret society
The Attention-Whore Index
Donald Trump is paying out, Ron DeSantis is waving good-bye—can legendary aviator Prince Harry pass them by? Plus, the strangest news from across the world
Morocco’s Next Big Thing
Tangier has long been a hub for proverbial black sheep—rock stars, artists, and hippies. But now the port city is drawing in a new crowd of ultra-sophisticated residents
The Attention-Whore Index
Richard Branson is deflecting, the late Queen Elizabeth is kvetching, but can they beat Donald Trump, whose lead in the polls is stretching? Plus, the strangest news from across the globe
Dollar Diplomacy
Israel and the U.S. had a plan to cut off funding to Hamas, but they chose instead to buy peace by facilitating prosperity for the terrorist organization
Mean Boys
France can’t stop talking about its new prime minister, the young and dashing Gabriel Attal. And neither can his high-school bully
The View from Here
Since 2020, the Ivy League has used its prominence—and free ESPN spots—to stand against various forms of discrimination. But on anti-Semitism, it has been conspicuously silent
The Slacker Myth
Make way for Generation Z—they are bold, unapologetic, and unfazed by workplace hierarchies. Just don’t call them lazy
A Very British Scandal
It was one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history—but it took a TV show to get the government to act
“I Have a History of Getting in Trouble by Speaking My Mind”
Donald McNeil Jr. on the lessons of the pandemic—and his own sudden ouster from The New York Times
Taking Offense
True-crime podcasts and television shows are booming, and everyone’s profiting—except the victims’ families. Now some are fighting back
Busy Is as Busy Does
It used to be that doing nothing was the ultimate luxury. Now being productive—or looking it—is everything
The Attention-Whore Index
Donald Trump is going big, or going to the Big House. Can anyone, even a ketamine-fueled Elon Musk, stop him from attracting all your attention? Plus, strange news from around the world
Balancing the Court
Bryant Johnson, the go-to personal trainer for most of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, looks back at his run at the nation’s most exclusive gym
Poor Little Reich Girl?
Countess Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck gleefully paraded her lavish Euro-nobility lifestyle to a huge TikTok following, until it was wrongly suggested her ancestors had helped the Nazis
Battle Royale
In a warped tale of lust and betrayal befitting a telenovela, Queen Letizia of Spain’s former flame alleges that they had an affair during her marriage to King Felipe
The View from Here
Among the casualties of the Israel-Hamas war: harmony between Black and Jewish Americans
An Almond a Day Keeps the Calories Away
How a dieting trend bred a generation of women with eating disorders—and mommy issues
Biting the Hand That Feeds You
With huge social-media followings, pet influencers—yes, that’s a thing—are landing big brand deals. The issue for agents: the animals’ catty owners
The Attention-Whore Index
Who will take the first title of the year? Nikki Haley? Jeff Koons? You-Know-Who? Plus, the world’s most delectable stories, collected for your reading pleasure!
Oh, Mon Depardieu!
Scores of sexual-harassment charges are finally catching up with France’s most decorated actor. And that’s when the culture wars stepped in
The View from Here
In Putin’s Russia, the only way that women are equal to men is in the brutality of their punishments
Jane Birkin
Born in England and adopted by France—the singer, model, and muse, as seen through the eyes of her longtime friend and compeer
