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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

The Oracle of Oxford

Larry Ellison, who surpassed Elon Musk last week to become the world’s richest man, is transforming the city into the new Silicon Valley

The Inimitable Nona Summers

A director remembers a great love

Finding Love, the Old-Fashioned Way

From backgammon clubs to cornhole speed dating, Gen Z–ers with app fatigue are looking for their other halves in real life

Epstein’s Sweetheart

Former U.S. attorney Alex Acosta was extremely lenient on the notorious pedophile. Congress isn’t returning the favor

The New Fountain of Youth

Forget red-light therapy and intermittent fasting: a new study finds the secret to staying young is being ageist

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

This week in American health: more R.F.K. Jr. madness, fluoride follies, and putting the kibosh on contraceptives

Death Becomes Them

Now even funerals are a scene for the social climbing and peacocking of the Instagram age

The Attention-Whore Index

Scott Bessent wants to step outside, Eric Adams wants to stay put, and Oliver North wants to put a ring on it

Judge Not

Far from being an institutionalist, Chief Justice John Roberts has rubber-stamped Trump’s most authoritarian orders—and sided with the president against the very legal system he is supposed to protect

Trump to World: Get Lost

From sky-high visa fees to social-media vetting, Trump’s draconian travel rules have tourists giving the U.S. a wide berth

The View from Here

Eric Adams as ambassador to Saudi Arabia? Sure, whatever. Anything to get him off New York’s mayoral ballot

Giorgio Armani

The designer who created men’s suits so soft and alluring that women wanted to wear them

The Time I Met Prince Andrew

It was brief but unforgettable—and not in a good way

Is the Gulf Art Boom a Mirage?

The art market is abuzz over the Middle East—but when autocrats are footing the bill, how long can it last?

The Trumpbuster

If the president comes after you—and who’s to say he won’t?—you need to call Abbe Lowell

The Attention-Whore Index

Xi Jinping parades his influence, Prince Andrew evades his past, and Donald Trump degrades the White House (even more)

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

This week in American health: a Nobel for Trump, Wuhan in Miami, and—what else?—R.F.K. Jr. vaccine-mania

Dude, Where’s My Tote?

From listening to Lana Del Rey to reading Sally Rooney, straight men are making a point of rejecting toxic masculinity and embracing feminine tastes in order to find love. Behold the rise of the “performative male”

The View from Here

Stop expecting Trump to die in office. Narcissism is the secret to longevity

What Does Your A.I. Say About You?

There was a time when a person’s bookshelf or record collection betrayed their soul. Today, it is their sidebar of A.I. tabs—be it ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok

The Little Island That Couldn’t

Campobello Island, the favorite summer haunt of the Roosevelts, has found itself caught on the front line of the trade war between the U.S. and Canada

The Gall of Inigo Philbrick

From London to Miami, the art dealer tricked the ultra-rich out of millions. A new documentary traces the unprecedented scale of his fraud—and the delusions that fueled him

A Blood Sport with Blow-Dries

On social media, college girls are treating sorority rush like reality TV—and earning millions in the process