She Faked Her Way into Yale. Then Things Unraveled
How fabricated transcripts, recommendation letters, and a personal statement about North Dakota fooled the Ivy into admitting a Chinese student from the Bay Area
Famiglia Feud
Gianni Agnelli’s grandson John Elkann turned a failing family business into a $40 billion global empire. Now he’s doing community service to avoid a legal dispute with his own mother
The View from Here
The monologue that momentarily cost Jimmy Kimmel his job tames in comparison to “Howl,” Allen Ginsberg’s poetic lament against the conformist society of 70 years ago
The 40-Year Con: Part II
After his second expulsion from Harvard, Spiro Pavlovich turned up at Yale Law School with a new identity: for the rest of his life, he would be known as Nicholas Rockefeller
The Attention-Whore Index
Sarah Ferguson has friends in low places, Donald Trump is U.N.-unfriendly, and Melania Trump begins her Christmas grifting
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This week in American health: Tylenol-gate, more vaccine-mania, and A.I. Christopher Hitchens lambastes R.F.K. Jr.
Science Defiance
Top researchers are putting their work—and retirements—on hold to combat Trump’s assault on scientific truth
The 40-Year Con
Nicholas Rockefeller—Yalie, Davos man, member of multiple boards—died a pillar of the West Coast establishment. Then the truth came out
The Oracle of Oxford
Larry Ellison, who surpassed Elon Musk last week to become the world’s richest man, is transforming the city into the new Silicon Valley
The Attention-Whore Index
Peter Thiel hymns the Antichrist, Pam Bondi hates hate speech, and Donald Trump has mourned long enough
Who Will Replace Charlie Kirk?
A new wave of right-wing provocateurs is shaping Gen Z politics outside the mainstream-media spotlight
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This week in American health: R.F.K. Jr. can’t stop, won’t stop; Trump comes for the disabled; and rock-paper-scissoring our way to abolishing all vaccines
The View from Here
Was Trump’s second state visit to the U.K. a case of Rex-ploitation?
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This week in American health: more R.F.K. Jr. madness, fluoride follies, and putting the kibosh on contraceptives
Epstein’s Sweetheart
Former U.S. attorney Alex Acosta was extremely lenient on the notorious pedophile. Congress isn’t returning the favor
Judge Not
Far from being an institutionalist, Chief Justice John Roberts has rubber-stamped Trump’s most authoritarian orders—and sided with the president against the very legal system he is supposed to protect
Trump to World: Get Lost
From sky-high visa fees to social-media vetting, Trump’s draconian travel rules have tourists giving the U.S. a wide berth
The Inimitable Nona Summers
A director remembers a great love
Death Becomes Them
Now even funerals are a scene for the social climbing and peacocking of the Instagram age
The Attention-Whore Index
Scott Bessent wants to step outside, Eric Adams wants to stay put, and Oliver North wants to put a ring on it
The New Fountain of Youth
Forget red-light therapy and intermittent fasting: a new study finds the secret to staying young is being ageist
Finding Love, the Old-Fashioned Way
From backgammon clubs to cornhole speed dating, Gen Z–ers with app fatigue are looking for their other halves in real life
The View from Here
Eric Adams as ambassador to Saudi Arabia? Sure, whatever. Anything to get him off New York’s mayoral ballot
Is the Gulf Art Boom a Mirage?
The art market is abuzz over the Middle East—but when autocrats are footing the bill, how long can it last?
