Race to the Bottom
As the heirs of the late Marchioness of Moratalla squabble over her estate, her prize-winning jumpers go hungry
Business and Pleasure
A member of Ghislaine Maxwell’s social circle digs into her traumatic childhood and complicated relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
Bee List
The planet’s most vital species has life lessons for these turbulent times
Meet the World’s Most Photographed Polar Bear
It seems Misha is always available for nature paparazzi
Worst. Bond Villain. Ever.
Beleaguered Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg disrupts Hawaii
Whine and Cheese
Does Finding Freedom really lay bare all the bitterness and infighting that drove Meghan and Harry to quit the royal family?
Leading Lady
Olivia de Havilland’s soft power on-screen blew away even the likes of Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh
Gondoliers’ Row
In Venice, a rule favoring the offspring of gondoliers sparked fury. Its defenders point to the importance of passing the tradition from father to son
Depposition
This libel trial continues to expose celebrity behavior more depraved than anything the tabloids could invent
Signifying Nothing
The coronavirus is not here to teach humanity a lesson. Beware of its self-proclaimed interpreters
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A $60 million wedding, and then a big family dustup
Stung by Their Beauty
Bees are earth’s keystone species. If they perish, we perish. So, what happens when you add 250,000 bees to your farm? Well, things start buzzing …
I ❤️ MG
A longtime collaborator recalls Milton Glaser, a giant of midcentury graphic design
The End or the Beginning?
Anne Applebaum says democracy is in its final days. The author says, Not so fast
An Outsize Burden
America’s Black elite deserve to be reckoned with on their own terms—not those created by the media
Off with Their Perks
How “Penelopegate” sentenced a leading French pol to prison and shook the country’s ruling elite
The Lion Queens
An elite group of female rangers take on wildlife poachers in Kenya
Money Pit
The sheikh who can’t remember how many villas and castles he owns
Barbarians at the School Gate
Part II: Illicit affairs? Kids out of wedlock? Will smear-mongering parents trash one of New York’s most elite schools?
There’s the Rub
A massage therapist on Epstein’s Little St. James Island says Ghislaine Maxwell was the ultimate anti-victim
The Passenger
Why Jeffrey Epstein cultivated a friendship with Bill Clinton is obvious. What the ex-president got out of it is harder to explain
Sounding the Alarm
Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on cancel culture and the future of free speech
