Penny Ante
Like so many other of Trump’s diktats aimed at crushing easy targets, his plan to be penny-wise is pound-foolish
Stranded in NewSpace
It’s not just the fate of two marooned astronauts that’s at stake—it’s the future of interstellar travel
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
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
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
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
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 View from Here
Trump’s model of political leadership? A cigar-chomping, baseball-bat-swinging, mobbed-up Brooklyn boss
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
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 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 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
Frazzle-Dazzle
With topknots, too-big cardigans, and well-worn Mulberry bags, Bridget Jones is back—and so is her frazzled aesthetic
“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
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
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
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?
The Attention-Whore Index
Elon Musk is raising heil, DeepSeek is causing angst, and Donald Trump is bringing back the Sturm und Drang
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
Lunar Tics
The rocket rivalry between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pits the former’s painstaking attention to detail against the latter’s explosive experimentation
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
