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Surviving Mohamed Al Fayed

More than 250 women have accused the late owner of Harrods of sexually assaulting them. Now six speak out about their experiences

Ladies and the Tramp

An I.T. employee at the elite Kent boarding school, in Connecticut, downloaded photos from 70 under-age female students’ laptops. Then he moved on to Yale

Not in My Bar Harbor

Locals are up in arms over a cruise-ship monopoly that’s quickly turning a quaint coastal town into the Venice of Maine

The Billionaire and the Rabble Army

Sir James Goldsmith’s short-lived Referendum Party spent lavishly but won few votes. Three decades later, its neo-populist politics are roiling the Western world

The Attention-Whore Index

Donald Trump rallies, Jeff Bezos censors, and Timothée Chalamet multiplies

Undecided? Moi?

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is apoplectic at the political ads bombarding his Pennsylvania home

The View from Here

In 1999, fighting globalization was a cause of true-blue lefties. Twenty-five short years later, it’s become a rallying cry for the red-hatted right

The Billionaire Predator

Frank Stronach, a 92-year-old Canadian auto-parts tycoon, has been accused of multiple sexual assaults dating back nearly 50 years. One of his alleged victims shares her story

Jagged Little Pill

How the birth-control pill went from women’s-lib sensation to TikTok albatross, drawing backlash from young people on both the left and right

The Attention-Whore Index

Marjorie Taylor Greene sells conspiracies, Elon Musk buys votes, and Donald Trump slings fries (and lies)

To Blackmail a King

The former mistress of Spain’s exiled monarch, Juan Carlos, forced her 13-year-old son to photograph and video her royal romps in order to extort millions of dollars in hush money from the Spanish state

Follow the Ruby Red Slippers!

The crazy tale of a career criminal’s theft of the shoes worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz—and the madcap, decades-long fight to get them back

The Vocal Minority

What’s behind the growing popularity of Ivy League student Republican clubs?

An Eye for an Eye

The grisly sale of human remains has exploded in popularity on social media. But who is buying? Who is selling? And where do the body parts come from?

Voting with Your Gut

The straw vote at Harry’s Bar, in Paris, has predicted the results of the American presidential election as accurately—if more drunkenly—than many more scientific polls

Gambling Man

Jamie Reuben, of the English property-and-investment firm Reuben Brothers, is spending billions on hotels and private clubs in New York. But will the Upper East Side love him back?

The Wreck of the Bayesian

To celebrate the end of a 12-year legal ordeal, billionaire Mike Lynch set sail on his “unsinkable” 184-foot yacht. The Fates weren’t with him

The View from Here

Pop stars are now held to the highest moral standards, while politicians are increasingly out of control

AARP-Breaker

Al Pacino and Mick Jagger are notches on the bedpost of the glamorous, 30-year-old film producer Noor Alfallah

The Attention-Whore Index

Donald Trump gets down, Kristi Noem sucks up, and Elon Musk fibs widely

The Fantastic Ms. Fox

Julia Fox’s life has been filled with sex, drugs, and Kanye West. Unbowed and unashamed, she’s now taking on motherhood with the same riotous spirit

Oops! They Diddy It Again

A TikTok conspiracy theory shows how quickly wild—and completely unfounded—rumors can come to dominate social media

A Chicago Turf War

When a flashy, young private-equity mogul sought to build a lavish compound on the shores of Lake Michigan, he didn’t count on pushback from the area’s old money

The Attention-Whore Index

Elon Musk is jumping for Trump, Ron DeSantis is ghosting Kamala, and King Charles is shrieking with fear