The Hamptons’ Secret Shame
Why do some of the most expensive homes in the country surround one of its most polluted lakes?
The Club That Welcomes Crashers
London’s Goldfish Club has been a tight brotherhood for years. Does Clint Eastwood want to join?
Blood in the Water
Elizabeth Holmes’s high-tech blood-testing company, Theranos, made her a paper billionaire—until she and it were alleged to be frauds. Here, the first in a six-part series tracing Holmes’s epic rise and fall
George Clooney, Kendall Jenner, and the Great Tequila Crisis
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J.F.K. and the Radcliffe Girl
For the first time ever, one of the former president’s lovers tells her story
Ooh La La!
Inside the bedroom of Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron …
The View from Here
Al Gore says it’s not too late to prevent cataclysmic climate change, but is it too late for us to change?
The Winklevoss Wrinkle
After years of post-Facebook conniving, the Winklevosses were finally on the road to redemption. Then they met another set of troublemaking twins
Cruise Control
So much for your nether regions. Gwyneth Paltrow now wants to fiddle with your vacation!
No Skin in the Game
Millennials and Gen Z–ers are all about empowerment and freeing the nipple. So why aren’t they embracing the nudism movement?
Warding Off Evil
CNN’s star correspondent takes us to the front lines of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
QAnon on the Volga
A growing number of Russian “revivalists” believe that the dissolution of the Soviet Union is a hoax
The Big C
Indian businessman Lalit Modi allegedly name-dropped royals and public figures to con investors for his bogus cancer treatment
Are You Ready for the “Genuinfluencers”?
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What Makes TikTok Tick?
It starts with 75 million videos vying for your attention …
Kabul and Kaput
What do the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan and the White Lotus finale have in common? Plenty
Locks, Sex, and Two Smoking Barrels
During shooting season in the U.K., the most coveted “birds” are bagged at night
Fussy Eaters Are Bad in Bed
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The Lady Vanishes
Charged with a fraudulent $1.3 million art deal, a millennial, private-jet-hopping grifter is now heading to prison
He Said, She Said
The socialite who shot a police officer in Belize is out of jail and under siege
Black Robe, White Knuckles
Justice Breyer’s refusal to retire is not just annoying—it’s a harsh reminder that we always put our own interests above society’s
Stone-Cold Liar
Why did a respected British M.P. stage his own death? Two new biographies seek to offer an answer
Cardinal Sins
Nepotism, prostitutes, Prada handbags … the Vatican insider who was once Pope Francis’s closest ally is now on trial in a $412 million fraud case
The $41 Million Instagram Scammer
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