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Holy Smokes!

A new generation of French women is smoking more cigarettes than ever before. Pour quoi?

The Attention-Whore Index

Marine Le Pen is found guilty, Elon Musk is found wanting, and Pete Hegseth’s wife is found everywhere

The View from Here

The oligarchs are back in town and hunting for swanky real estate, lured by Trump’s laissez-faire attitude toward corruption and money-laundering

March (of) Madness

Signalgate or Greenland? Putin or DOGE? With AIR MAIL’s interactive bracket, you can decide the maddest moment yet of the Trump presidency

Another Fall from Grace

Prince Harry has broken with Sentebale, the African charity he founded 20 years ago. And the chair of its board is on the warpath

A League of Their Own

A cottage industry has sprung up at Harvard, Penn, and other Ivy League colleges, providing nepo babies and children of the ultra-wealthy a luxury alternative to campus living

Down the Tubes

With Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports driving up the cost of a key ingredient in American toilet paper, experts say a shortage may well be on the horizon

The View from Here

A 1960s hoax by liberal luminaries including E. L. Doctorow fueled the conspiracy theories that Trump has relied on his entire political career

The Alien and the Fawn

Accusations of sexual harassment upended the career of award-winning Hollywood composer Danny Elfman. But what really happened between him and his accuser?

The Attention-Whore Index

The Vances intimidate Greenland, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez intimate Venice, and Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz exculpate themselves

Reinaldo Herrera

An international arbiter of style whose manners were matched by his joie de vivre and loyalty

Riding High

Museum-quality saddles, free-flowing champagne, and the finest show jumping in the world make the Saut Hermès competition much more than an equestrian’s paradise

Ticking Time Bomb

Inside a chilling campaign of homemade explosives and escalating ransom threats with an unexpected target: Switzerland’s most storied watchmaker, Patek Philippe

Endangered Cranes

Stranded in NewSpace: Part II

Their 10-day mission to the International Space Station stretched to more than nine months. But Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s journey to the stars began decades earlier

They’ll Take the Lot!

Interior design meets soap opera in the latest high-end real-estate trend, where the wealthy approach homeowners with no desire to sell and buy their houses turnkey—down to the tchotchkes

The Cult of Leica

The German camera company, which has supplied photographers from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Annie Leibovitz and sabotaged the Third Reich during W.W. II, turns 100 this year

The Cut-Price Catwalk

From vintage Chloé to your kids’ leftover Zara, the Lithuanian fashion platform Vinted has become the place to buy, and sell, clothes

The View from Here

The Anti-Defamation League should think twice before cheering Trump’s crackdown on anti-Zionists

It’s a MAGA Man’s World

At Operation Black Site, a three-day training camp in California, right-wing “entrepreneurs” shoot guns and practice handcuffing—preparing for an America under siege

The Attention-Whore Index

Chuck Schumer gets crowd-shy, Donald Trump whispers sweet nothings, and Liz Truss breaks hearts

Harvard Henchman

Putin’s point person for brokering a Ukraine peace agreement with Trump is a rich, Ivy League smoothie

The View from Here

A New York City pediatric infectious-diseases doctor never thought he’d see a vicious resurgence of measles, an entirely preventable illness, in his lifetime. He was wrong

Elon Musk Is the New Henry Ford (and Not in a Good Way)

Before liberals turned on Tesla, Ford was boycotted for its owner’s toxic political views