The Godfather of Punk
As the glam lead singer of the New York Dolls, David Johansen changed music forever
The Attention-Whore Index
R.F.K. Jr. embraces the measles, Marco Rubio gets the needle, and Donald Trump causes more upheaval
Not Our Jam
Of all the problems plaguing the new Netflix series With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex’s fixation on jam is only the beginning
The Men Who Would Be King
Although most of France has moved on from the Revolution of 1789, there is a pocket of French society that yearns for the return of a monarch. But who should it be?
The View from Here
Is Donald Trump doing a “Reverse-Nixon”? (It’s even worse than it sounds)
Wild Ride
Tesla used to be the car of choice for virtue-signaling Democrats. Now, as liberals all over the world are unloading their “Swasticars,” will the Fox News set fill the void?
The View from Here
The anti-woke intelligentsia applauded Trump’s attacks on D.E.I. What they got instead is the MAGA brand of affirmative action
The Attention-Whore Index
Steve Bannon joins the Nazi-salute brigade, Elon Musk sparks even more outrage, and Donald Trump gives up on truth, justice, and the American way
Chiltern Firehouse’s Slow Burn
André Balazs on the fire that brought down his hotel—beloved by Hollywood stars and housed in a former fire station, no less—and what lies ahead for the London hot spot
Is Elon Musk Overvalued?
Trump’s re-election made the world’s richest man even richer. But Musk’s future prospects are far from certain
The Attention-Whore Index
Elon Musk wants your financial information, Eric Adams suffers yet more humiliation, and Donald Trump spins lies without hesitation
Sisters in Arms
A new play about the early days of women’s lib asks: Where does the movement go from here?
The Next Big Thing in Book-Club Land? Edge
Being a star isn’t enough anymore. One has to be cool too
Meghan Ever-Lasting
The real tradwife of Montecito just won’t stop. New this week is a rebrand of her lifestyle company, American Riviera Orchard
Dispatch from Klooga
How a young woman discovered her grandfather’s harrowing Holocaust-survival story, memorialized in a forgotten Life-magazine report by the famed war correspondent John Hersey
The Apostate
Trump’s dead-eyed hatchet man in the Justice Department, Emil Bove III, has attacked the very office that taught him the law—and betrayed the ideals he once espoused
Ukraine Upended
Ukrainians who endured three years of invasion, bombardments, and devastation are packing up to escape a Trump-brokered peace
How to Almost Get Away with Murder
A group of transgender, ex-Google “radical vegans”—armed with ammunition belts—are quickly shaping up to be a 21st-century Manson family
A Broke Hallelujah
In the latest twist in a lengthy legal battle, Leonard Cohen’s children have accused their father’s former lawyer of siphoning millions from the singer’s estate
The View from Here
Before he took a chain saw to government spending, Elon Musk used taxpayer funds to turn a failing business into a trillion-dollar company
The Attention-Whore Index
Elon Musk is selling the farm, J. D. Vance is twisting arms, and for Kanye West, the Third Reich’s the charm
Every Woman’s Romantasy
What does the explosive popularity of books by Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros say about female desire today?
