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
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
The View from Here
The Anti-Defamation League should think twice before cheering Trump’s crackdown on anti-Zionists
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 Attention-Whore Index
Chuck Schumer gets crowd-shy, Donald Trump whispers sweet nothings, and Liz Truss breaks hearts
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
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
Harvard Henchman
Putin’s point person for brokering a Ukraine peace agreement with Trump is a rich, Ivy League smoothie
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
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
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
About a Boycott
From German musicians to Canadian hockey fans, the world is turning its back on Trump’s America
The Silver Fox Is Back, Baby!
From George Clooney to The White Lotus’s Jason Isaacs, to Canada’s new prime minister, men over the age of 60 are having a moment
The Last Spies of Paris
Unlike porters in London or doormen in New York, Paris’s omnipresent gardiennes—the eyes and ears of Haussmann buildings—are fast disappearing
Bombshell
A 7,600-pound nuclear weapon has been languishing off the coast of Georgia since 1958, when it was lost by the U.S. Air Force during a Cold War training exercise. What could possibly go wrong?
The Attention-Whore Index
Sam Bankman-Fried is begging, Elon Musk is wrecking, and the Markles are heckling
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?
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 Attention-Whore Index
R.F.K. Jr. embraces the measles, Marco Rubio gets the needle, and Donald Trump causes more upheaval
The View from Here
Is Donald Trump doing a “Reverse-Nixon”? (It’s even worse than it sounds)
The Godfather of Punk
As the glam lead singer of the New York Dolls, David Johansen changed music forever
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?
