The Shooting of Pretty Boy Melvin
Was Sean “Diddy” Combs’s father murdered by the Gambino crime family?
The View from Here
How did Thames Water, the U.K.’s largest water company, turn a foolproof monopoly into a $20 billion money pit, leaving the country short on the very commodity it was responsible for supplying?
The Attention-Whore Index
Elon Musk’s wealth becomes engorged, Prince Andrew receives a mysterious handout, and Anthony Weiner exposes himself (to ridicule) yet again
The Attention-Whore Index
Donald Trump triumphs, Elon Musk gloats, and Tucker Carlson gets mauled by a demon (at last!)
Au Revoir les Voitures!
A radical plan to reduce traffic in Paris is underway. Will it reduce the capital’s deadly road-rage incidents?
Twisted Sister
A nun named Gertrude is the face of one of the buzziest craft breweries in Belgium. But in a previous life, she conspired to commit genocide in Rwanda
Waiting to Regale
From attending the Queen’s coronation and suffering familial tragedy to becoming friends with Mick Jagger and learning to cook at 86, Lady Glenconner is the quintessential survivor
Trouble in La-La Land
The Krotona apartments, in L.A.’s Hollywood Hills, once attracted artists, actors, and eccentrics. Now their state of disrepair has pitted neighbor against neighbor
There’s No Place Like Ontario Place
Once home to a public park and architectural marvels, an island off the shore of the idyllic Lake Ontario is being turned into a big-budget spa, to the ire of some locals
The View from Here
The biggest threats to Trump’s agenda won’t be elements of the opposition. They will be his own character—and fate
The Attention-Whore Index
Donald Trump rallies, Jeff Bezos censors, and Timothée Chalamet multiplies
Ladies and the Tramp
An I.T. employee at the elite Kent boarding school, in Connecticut, downloaded photos from 70 under-age female students’ laptops. Then he moved on to Yale
Not in My Bar Harbor
Locals are up in arms over a cruise-ship monopoly that’s quickly turning a quaint coastal town into the Venice of Maine
The Billionaire and the Rabble Army
Sir James Goldsmith’s short-lived Referendum Party spent lavishly but won few votes. Three decades later, his neo-populist politics—and enthusiasm for tariffs—are roiling the Western world
The View from Here
There is a lot at stake this Election Day—not least the legacy of the baby-boom generation
Surviving Mohamed Al Fayed
More than 250 women have accused the late owner of Harrods of sexually assaulting them. Now six speak out about their experiences
Undecided? Moi?
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is apoplectic at the political ads bombarding his Pennsylvania home
The Billionaire Predator
Frank Stronach, a 92-year-old Canadian auto-parts tycoon, has been accused of multiple sexual assaults dating back nearly 50 years. One of his alleged victims shares her story
Jagged Little Pill
How the birth-control pill went from women’s-lib sensation to TikTok albatross, drawing backlash from young people on both the left and right
Follow the Ruby Red Slippers!
The crazy tale of a career criminal’s theft of the shoes worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz—and the madcap, decades-long fight to get them back
The Attention-Whore Index
Marjorie Taylor Greene sells conspiracies, Elon Musk buys votes, and Donald Trump slings fries (and lies)
Voting with Your Gut
The straw vote at Harry’s Bar, in Paris, has predicted the results of the American presidential election as accurately—if more drunkenly—than many more scientific polls
The Vocal Minority
What’s behind the growing popularity of Ivy League student Republican clubs?
To Blackmail a King
The former mistress of Spain’s exiled monarch, Juan Carlos, forced her 13-year-old son to photograph and video her royal romps in order to extort millions of dollars in hush money from the Spanish state