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Take a Right at the Second Cloud

After 50 years, is one man’s dream of flying cars closer to reality?

“Off with Their Euros!”

Welcome to Royalist theme park Puy du Fou, the least woke place in France

Tempest in a Teacup

The author of a naughty tell-all memoir is driven into hiding while le tout London wonders what on earth Sasha Swire was thinking

Did You Hear About … ?

Quirky news about these rather curious days

Party Like It’s 1929!

Americans are finagling their way around international-travel bans and decamping to Europe, where the living is (comparatively) easy

Whatever You Say, Sir!

Trust in the media is as low as the president’s approval rating. Here are the Top 10 media remora of the Trump era

Magisterial Meghan

Prince Harry’s wife and master fires the lawyer who successfully defended Johnny Depp and picks his biggest rival to pursue her defamation suit

“The Best Eyes in the Business”

During the Swinging 60s, Valerie Askew ran the largest modeling agency in Europe and partied with the Beatles

Sex Education

Two elite British universities—including Prince William’s alma mater—unravel amid horrific accusations of assault on campus

Is Serge Gainsbourg #Annulé?

The French intelligentsia now see him as Harvey Weinstein in dirty denim

The View from Here

Read ’em and weep: all the president’s biographers find different ways to paint the same horrifying portrait

Did You Hear About … ?

Quirky news about these curious days

Tattle Tales

What I know about the Tory wives titillating London with their deliciously disloyal tell-alls

Toulouse-Lautrec’s Family Is Shortchanged

The artist’s 91-year-old great-grandniece gets grifted out of the château

Vick Hope

The rising star in British radio and television brings a focus on diversity and mental health

Covid in Connecticut

What a difference six months make

Soldier of Misfortune

William Barr helps Michael Flynn leave a mess—and a man—behind

Boundless as the Sea

The Italian couple who fell in love across their balconies during the height of the coronavirus are finally united—and engaged

The Woman in Black

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s unanswerable power of argument

It’s Just Not Cricket

The world’s snootiest sporting club is being rocked by revolt from within

Booty Call

Paris robbers who stole $10.6 million worth of Kim Kardashian’s jewelry used her social media to map their heist

“If You Are in Denial About Climate Change, Come to California”

Governor Gavin Newsom


Number of acres burned in all of 2019: 259,000
Number of acres burned to date in 2020: 3,400,000
(an amount greater than all of Connecticut; equal to 4,000 Central Parks)

Instascam

Kuwaiti prosecutors charge social-media influencers with money-laundering and boost their online popularity

The Way We Live Now

How Sir Terence Conran Turned Bauhaus into Your House