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
Frazzle-Dazzle
With topknots, too-big cardigans, and well-worn Mulberry bags, Bridget Jones is back—and so is her frazzled aesthetic
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 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
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 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 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
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 Attention-Whore Index
Donald Trump goes low, Elon Musk goes Sieg heil!, and Mark Zuckerberg goes so macho
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?
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 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 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
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 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
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
Everything Old Is New Again
“Tablescaping” vs. “setting the table,” “preloved fashion” vs. “secondhand” … Is Gen Z really changing boomer habits or just rebranding them?
The View from Here
Who could have foreseen the destruction wrought by the wildfires in Los Angeles? Benjamin Franklin, for one
My Father, the Monster
In an excerpt from her new memoir, the daughter of Gisèle Pelicot explains exactly how she discovered her father’s crimes—in horrifying detail
The Perfect Spy
Newly declassified files offer a rare glimpse into the mind of Kim Philby, a K.G.B. mole within M.I.6 who was arguably Britain’s greatest traitor
Milan Banned Smoking. Locals Aren’t Having It
“I’m moving to Rome”: the Milanese react to a new law prohibiting smoking in public spaces
