Party Like It’s 1929!
Americans are finagling their way around international-travel bans and decamping to Europe, where the living is (comparatively) easy
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
Suits Yourself
A British court keeps rejecting Meghan’s pre-trial arguments in a privacy case that could cost her more than $2.3 million
The View from Here
It’s time for de Blasio to step up—and Bloomberg to pony up—to save New York City. Before it’s too late
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
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
Covid in Connecticut
What a difference six months make
Soldier of Misfortune
William Barr helps Michael Flynn leave a mess—and a man—behind
“The Best Eyes in the Business”
During the Swinging 60s, Valerie Askew ran the largest modeling agency in Europe and partied with the Beatles
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
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
Vick Hope
The rising star in British radio and television brings a focus on diversity and mental health
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
The Ladies Doth Protest
Move over, Simone de Beauvoir! In France, a sex war not between men and women but between feminism’s Old and New Guards
Diary Dearest
Savage memoir by the wife of a well-connected, upper-class British M.P. puts Conservatives’ knickers in a twist
Instascam
Kuwaiti prosecutors charge social-media influencers with money-laundering and boost their online popularity
Booty Call
Paris robbers who stole $10.6 million worth of Kim Kardashian’s jewelry used her social media to map their heist
Members Only
A Belgian urologist lays out everything a man should know about shape, size, and “penisfulness”
“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)
