A New Script for Harvey Weinstein
Right-wing provocateurs have embraced the disgraced Hollywood producer and see his re-trial as a chance to destroy #MeToo forever
The Potemkin Kingdom
Gateway KSA offers students from the world’s top universities all-expenses-paid luxury trips to Saudi Arabia. What’s the catch?
The Attention-Whore Index
Kristi Noem gets robbed, J. D. Vance kills the Pope (possibly), and Pete Hegseth stumblebums around the Pentagon
Good-bye, Mr. Xi
When rich Chinese families send their children to English boarding schools, they pay for guardians to take care of their offsprings’ logistical—and emotional—needs
Red, White, and Blues
America was once a fun, free, brave, and happy melting pot, but, as one Canadian argues, those days are seemingly over—at least for now
The View from Here
Donald and Melania Trump’s foray into crypto may be the biggest financial scandal in presidential history—and it’s happening in plain sight
20,000 Kilos Under the Sea
With Europe’s anti-narcotics agencies watching the waters, drug traffickers have taken to using submarines
The Attention-Whore Index
Marjorie Taylor Greene stocks up, Lauren Sánchez spaces out, and Pete Hegseth leans very far right
Who Is the Queen of #RichTok?
In just a few weeks, Becca Bloom has attracted millions of followers on TikTok for embodying “rich people who rich right”
A Waste of Space
The world expected cosmic wisdom from Katy Perry, who joined Lauren Sánchez’s all-women space trip aboard the Blue Origin rocket. Instead, we got a setlist for her new tour
The View from Here
Welcome to Toronto, the West’s newest sanctuary city—for Americans
A New Defender of the Realm
British industrialist Jim Ratcliffe may not be the most loved man in Britain, but the Ineos Grenadier, his answer to Land Rover’s reworking of its flagship model, is soaring in popularity
A Mitzvah on Division Street
Alison Roman, Andy Baraghani, and Sascha Seinfeld gathered at Sunn’s restaurant, in New York’s Chinatown, for a Korean-style Passover Seder
The Fox and the Hedgehog
Mario Vargas Llosa—the Nobel Prize–winning writer who once ran for president of Peru—rivaled Gabriel García Márquez in his literary prowess
“She Had Her Whole Life Ahead of Her”
The killing of Brianna Kupfer
The Wrath of Huang
Nvidia C.E.O. Jensen Huang insists that, unlike his infamous temper tantrums, his A.I. chips don’t pose a threat to mankind
Oh, for God’s Sake!
Accused of being a false teacher, a racist, and a crook, the televangelist and leader of the new White House Faith Office, Paula White, could be a match made in heaven for Trump
Duchess of All Trades
After her Netflix flop and getting axed by Spotify, Meghan Markle is back yet again—this time dishing out inane business advice on a new podcast
The View from Here
The Founding Fathers assumed the president’s power to pardon would be exercised with restraint. They didn’t figure on Donald Trump
Who Ya Gonna Call? Scam Busters!
How a team of sleuths reportedly tracked down the Brad Pitt impersonators who cyber-scammed a middle-aged Frenchwoman out of her life’s savings
The Attention-Whore Index
Emmanuel Macron sprinkles cologne, Mark Zuckerberg scatters millions, and Elon Musk slings mud
Bonkers for Britain
“Cheeky!” “Dodgy!” “Cheers!” America’s Gen Z is embracing Britishisms like there’s no tomorrow
The Attention-Whore Index
Marine Le Pen is found guilty, Elon Musk is found wanting, and Pete Hegseth’s wife is found everywhere
Another Fall from Grace
Prince Harry has broken with Sentebale, the African charity he founded 20 years ago. And the chair of its board is on the warpath