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The View from Here

Looking for some light summer entertainment? Tune in to the U.K. election

The View from Here

It’s probably unfair to liken Trump’s donors on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley to the German bankers and industrialists who supported Hitler. Or is it?

The Attention-Whore Index

New Jersey is to corruption as Elon Musk is to reproduction. Plus, all the strangest news from around the world

Coup de Disgrace

Why did Emmanuel Macron court chaos just weeks before France claims Olympic glory?

I-95 Is Us

Everybody hates it. It may well kill you. But as summer travel ramps up along Interstate 95, it’s time we recognize the highway as our national Main Street

The Attention-Whore Index

Donald Trump is in a dilemma, Kathy Hochul is in a dither, and Steve Bannon is going inside. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

How to Poison the Earth and Influence People

Oil companies give millions to cultural institutions. The reputational benefits? Priceless

The Social Network

As Harvard gets more progressive, its “final clubs”—known for their exclusivity and indulgent behavior—seem trapped in the past

It’s the Border, Stupid

Far-right parties across Europe rode anxiety over mass migration to big victories. America should take heed

Hot Rodent Boyfriends

Gen Z is obsessed with men who look like mice. Tom Holland, Jeremy Allen White, Barry Keoghan, your time is now

The View from Here

Oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky thought they’d created a post-Soviet puppet, but Putin outgrew his wealthy mentors and then destroyed them

In the Land of the Green Laird

A topsy-turvy battle has broken out in Scotland between billionaire environmentalists, who want to cull thousands of deer, and deer-hunting locals, who’d like to see them thrive

Behind Closed Doors

Claims of questionable business ethics and sexual improprieties at Carpenters Workshop, the art world’s most prestigious design gallery, reveal a company flying dangerously close to the sun

The Royal #WeToo

The Duchess of York—hardly a shrinking violet—has announced that she is not going to hide her true self anymore. God help us all

The Attention-Whore Index

Eric Adams is the king of rats, Madonna is the queen of shocks, and Donald Trump is the lord of lies

The View from Here

The European Parliament, long a sinecure for nameless bureaucrats, has become a finishing school for Fascists

Five O’Clock Follies

Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara knew the war in Vietnam could not be won—and waged it anyway

When Your Teacher Is Qatar

As student protesters call for their universities to divest from Israel, Qatar is spending billions to influence those same schools

The Attention-Whore Index

Donald Trump is guilty as hell, Richard Dreyfuss loves a good yell, and you don’t want Martha-Ann Alito ringing your doorbell. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

Bigmouth Strikes Again

After surviving just 10 days as Trump’s communications director, Anthony Scaramucci is now backing Biden, co-hosting a podcast, and taking wild swings at his former boss

The View from Here

Harvard’s sanctioning of two Rhodes Scholarship recipients is only the latest in a series of controversies plaguing the prestigious academic prize

Roanoke’s Requiem

A grassroots effort attempts to make sense of a heartbreaking cancer surge among Roanoke College’s young alumni

The View from Here

France loves a student protest almost as much as a one-euro baguette. So why isn’t Paris burning?

The Making of the Alitos

The upside-down views and resentful personalities of the Supreme Court justice and his wife, Martha-Ann, exploded into public view 18 years ago