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Joe Biden’s Not-So-Secret Weapon

American-born and raised in France by a stepfather who had survived the Holocaust, Tony Blinken will shape the next president’s global relations

King of Queens

Is newly elected New York State representative Zohran Kwame Mamdani the next A.O.C.?

The View from Here

A concession speech for a presidential loser who won’t admit he’s, well, a loser

Instagram’s Brave New World

Influencers who are computer-generated and who, like their followers, never sleep

When Charles Met Diana

As Netflix unveils The Crown’s Diana years, a closer look at the princess-to-be who sobbed her way through her wedding rehearsal

Did She Marry a He-Devil?

Fay Weldon’s life eerily imitates her fiction

Xi Marks the Spot

The coronavirus accelerated China’s rise, but the country’s future isn’t as certain as its president insists

The View from Here

Happy days are weird again

Did You Hear About … ?

Quirky news for these rather curious days

No One Spikes These Stories

How Substack became home to big-name journalists who felt “the Youngs” in newsrooms were putting wokeness ahead of important ideas

“A Bit of a Clever Dick”

Scottish actor-comedian John Sessions voiced Laurence Olivier, acted with Meryl Streep, and channeled Keith Richards

Depp Goes Down Swinging

Once Hollywood’s fêted heartthrob, Johnny Depp may never work again after this week’s High Court verdict in the U.K.

The King and They

Blinged-out Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand is losing his God-like status as protesters march in the streets

I, Coronavirus

Trump’s real running mate takes a stand

Did You Hear About … ?

Quirky news for these rather curious days

The Biden Touch

He wears his heart where every Scranton native does: on his sleeve. Thank God

The View from Here

Be my guest: it’s really quite simple …

The Secret Histories

Collectors and voyeurs vie for other people’s diaries

Cruel Brittania

Why on earth does Boris Johnson want to tune out the BBC?

Off the Rails

The famed Ian Allan Book & Model Shop in London, a favorite of railway enthusiasts, is the U.K.’s latest coronavirus casualty

The View from Here

Would you hire Donald Trump to work at your company?

Vice Gets Squeezed

Shane Smith convinced Rupert Murdoch and Disney that his company was, as the kids say, the sh!t. Until it wasn’t. How did Vice blow it—and trash billions in valuation?

Melania by Night

As Rome burns and Trump tweets, his wife stays up late reading gossip about Vogue’s Anna Wintour

The Southern Heroine

Charismatic, witty, and determined, Marguerite Littman was a moving force in the early fight against AIDS and counted David Hockney, Bianca Jagger, and Princess Diana among her closest friends