The View from Here
There’s a better way to remember William Friedkin, the witty, generous, and passionately dedicated director of The French Connection and The Exorcist
Soccer’s New Footprint
For Forest Green Rovers, the world’s first carbon-neutral soccer team, bringing politics into the sport hasn’t played out exactly as the team’s super-rich owner had hoped
The $158 Million Question
Why is Leon Black, billionaire financier, blue-chip art collector—and close friend of Jeffrey Epstein’s—suddenly facing a new rape accusation and questions from the Senate Finance Committee? An extensive AIR MAIL investigation provides a road map
The Attention-Whore Index
Is Elon Musk having trouble with his X? Did Melania Trump almost quit the White House? Is there a rift in the Sussex-verse? Who is demanding your attention?
Kremlin Crackdown
As the war drags on, Russian dissenters watch powerlessly while Putin expands conscription and bans civil liberties he deems too Western
Hot Properties
Habitable seeks to combine real-estate porn with eco-disaster anxiety. But who’s it really for?
The View from Here
Does R.F.K. Jr.’s campaign represent what America is becoming—a strange new land where conspiracy theories rule the day—or is it simply a reflection of the country it’s always been?
Break Camp
For decades, DJ Jeff Yahney was the king of sleepaway summer camps. Then cost-cutting Wall Street types realized his venues could be investments
Fuel to the Fired
Prince Albert of Monaco fired his closest advisers after a mysterious Web site accused them of corruption. Rather than save face, it’s triggered a flurry of lawsuits
The Attention-Whore Index
King Charles getting a pay raise? Elon Musk tearing down Twitter? R.F.K. Jr. playing the Trump card? Who is the neediest of them all? You decide!
A Village Fête in London
One of the city’s most eccentric traditions sees waiters going head-to-head in a race around Soho
The Eyes of a Killer: Part V
This week, Bryan Kohberger’s defense team announced that they plan to prove their client wasn’t even at the scene of the crime. Could they actually get him off?
Tailor-Made
Edward Sexton, who died this week, gave bespoke suits the right amount of flair—and just might have saved Savile Row
Company Town
Inside the Praxis Society, a Silicon Valley–backed start-up attempting to build a city in the Mediterranean
The View from Here
As Israeli protests against Netanyahu’s efforts to tame the courts escalate, military officers talk about a possible pro-democracy coup
The Attention-Whore Index
R.F.K. Jr. tries out anti-Semitism for size, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie continue their never-ending, acrimonious divorce. Who’s grabbing your attention this week?
The View from Here
Hollywood isn’t the only strike zone. French journalists are picketing the latest antics of right-wing media mogul Vincent Bolloré
A Pro and a Con
For Shelby Hewitt, a Boston social worker in her 30s, posing as a teenage foster kid was easy. The question is: Why would anyone want to go back to high school?
Royal Mayhem
The exiled would-be King of Italy got away with murder, then a German model demanded justice
While Rome Burns
A brutal heat wave is shutting down daily life in Italy—and giving one clever weather forecaster the chance to flex his Dante knowledge
The Last of the Giants
Before Steve Jobs, Polaroid founder Edwin Land developed revolutionary products at the intersection of art and technology. Thanks to a devoted few, his 225-pound 20x24 camera lives on
The Je Ne Sais Quoi of Jane Birkin
A lifetime of photographs pays tribute to the French-British actress and singer who inspired the iconic handbag
Cinema Verité
Like the plot of a French New Wave film, the legendary actor Alain Delon is in a tumultuous battle with his much younger girlfriend
Keeping Up with the Joneses
In the 1990s, Helen Fielding’s hilarious novel Bridget Jones’s Diary became a huge hit. Now revisionists are ruining the fun