What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This week in American health: former U.S. surgeon generals sound the alarm, while R.F.K. Jr. sets his sights on … circumcision and sugar beets
The Attention-Whore Index
Pete Hegseth pushes up, Kash Patel punches down, and Donald Trump sends the National Guard all around
The View from Here
How I learned to stop worrying and love Robert S. McNamara (if not the Vietnam War)
When the Art World Lost Its Mind (and Money)
NFTs once promised to revolutionize creativity and commerce. Four years later, the market has collapsed, fortunes have vanished, and the art scene is still reckoning with what it all meant
To Catch a Catfish
A former police officer turned private investigator is hunting down romance scammers preying on wealthy, lonely seniors in Australia
What Happened to the Godfather of Pop Art?
How the contents of Larry Rivers’s estate and foundation ended up in a second-tier gallery near New Hope, Pennsylvania
The Attention-Whore Index
Prince Harry huffs, Pete Hegseth puffs, and Donald Trump glows up the White House
Man on the Run
Two years after the model Abby Choi was brutally dismembered, troubling new details have emerged about her ex-husband’s criminal past—and how he was able to evade arrest
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
France’s A-Team
Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers reveal how they came to represent the victim in the rape trial that shocked the country
The 40-Year Con: Part III
Once Spiro Pavlovich became Nicholas Rockefeller, he never dropped the charade, even in private. But beneath the “wonderful man,” as he was described by a Yale Law School classmate, lurked a dark, abusive Mr. Hyde
War of the Gourmet Grocers
Fighting over everything from chicken salad to trad-wife protein powder, a spate of Manhattan prepared-food stores are vying to take the place of the mother ship, Dean & DeLuca
The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Warfare
Inside the feud between Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling and her former protégé, Hermione actress Emma Watson
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This week in American health: TrumpRx gets the green light; R.F.K. Jr.’s neo-Nazi problem; and the abortion wars rage on
Science Defiance
Top researchers are putting their work—and retirements—on hold to combat Trump’s assault on scientific truth
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
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 Attention-Whore Index
Sarah Ferguson has friends in low places, Donald Trump is U.N.-unfriendly, and Melania Trump begins her Christmas grifting
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
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.
Who Will Replace Charlie Kirk?
A new wave of right-wing provocateurs is shaping Gen Z politics outside the mainstream-media spotlight
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 Attention-Whore Index
Peter Thiel hymns the Antichrist, Pam Bondi hates hate speech, and Donald Trump has mourned long enough
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
