The View from Here
Prince Andrew’s and Sarah Ferguson’s closeness with Jeffrey Epstein barely scratches the surface of their alleged corruption
The Attention-Whore Index
Marjorie Taylor Greene laments, Alan Dershowitz sues, and Sydney Sweeney enflames
The Lady’s Not for Turning
Emma Tucker, the first woman to lead The Wall Street Journal, has taken on Donald Trump—by publishing his intimate letter to Jeffrey Epstein—and she isn’t backing down
Grab ‘Em by the Pants!
Sydney Sweeney is a master of self-promotion—but is allying herself with the Republican Party a social-media storm too far?
Spies Like Us
A growing number of Israelis are spying on behalf of Iran, tempted to betray their country for cash, for love, and sometimes just out of social alienation
The Davos Man Who Fell to Earth
What could have prompted the resignation of the alleged funds-misusing, data-rigging, employee-harassing founder of the World Economic Forum?
The View from Here
“Leave no money on the table” is as close to a Trump doctrine as we’re likely to get
Rage and Ravioli on Lake Garda
Italy’s Rana family, of the global pasta empire, is rumored to be in hot water with locals over renovations to a historic estate on Lake Garda better suited to Las Vegas than to Como’s quainter cousin
Love in the Time of Reality TV
Bachelor in Paradise! Love Island! Love on the Spectrum! Why is everyone so obsessed with dating shows?
The Attention-Whore Index
Jeffrey Epstein haunts, Tulsi Gabbard conceals, and Donald Trump cheats
How to Steal $40 Million Without Really Trying: Part II
Biscuits, Bollywood, and lots of bullion … Inside the hunt for the Toronto gold robbers
What Rhymes with Tom Lehrer?
He retired from musical satire more than 50 years ago, but his passion for musical theater was a lifelong affair
The Italian Job
How a Roman forgery network faked “impossible to replicate” artworks by Picasso, Edvard Munch, and Paul Klee using … coffee and tea
Tom Lehrer
A mordant Harvard math whiz who used musical satire to skewer the Establishment and pioneer a new kind of nonconformist comedy
The Boats That Rocked
In Monaco, 50-knot, all-electric boats owned by Tom Brady, Rafael Nadal, and Will Smith raced against a glimmering backdrop of Birkins and the Mediterranean
How to Steal $40 Million Without Really Trying
A gang of amateur thieves stole 6,600 gold bars from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in 2023. Two years later, the loot is nowhere to be found
Fakes, Nazis, and Fake Nazis
When the art dealer Ezra Chowaiki was offered the deal of a lifetime, he found himself in a confounding world of counterfeits
Fancy Feast
Does your cocktail party lack heft and grandeur? Enter the dînatoire, an entertaining trend that’s sweeping New York
The Coldplay Kiss-Cam Faux Pas
How is Andy Byron, the now infamous (and now former) C.E.O. of Astronomer, ever going to rebuild his reputation? Perhaps by using the Bill Clinton playbook
The View from Here
The career arcs of Britney Spears, Kanye West, and Donald Trump are proof that celebrities really are just like us—only more so
Diary of a Foreigner in Rome
The Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta, Trump’s ambassador to Italy, is making his presence in the capital known, starting with his alleged helicopter commute to work from aboard his 250-foot yacht
The Attention-Whore Index
Hunter Biden vents, Tucker Carlson ferments, and Donald Trump misrepresents
Hell on Wheels
Thousands of confidential files leaked by a Tesla employee reveal noxious working conditions, flawed technology, and a delusional, unstable C.E.O.
