Was My Friend a Fraud?
Matthew Pietras worked for the Soros family, donated millions to museums, and produced a fistful of Broadway shows. So why did it all feel make-believe?
Moby Dish
Wild orcas have started presenting food to humans. Is this a sign of interspecies rapport or a devious new hunting method?
The View from Here
One year ago, Thomas Matthew Crooks shot and almost killed Donald Trump. Why do we know so little about him?
MrBeast Mode
Jimmy Donaldson turned views into stunts, stunts into cash, and cash into a digital empire. What does his rise say about the culture that created him?
The New Nostalgia
Longing for authenticity, Gen Z is romanticizing a pre-Internet era they never knew
Eulogy for Palmyra
As one of the last photographers to capture the ancient city before its destruction by the Islamic State, 89-year-old Sir Don McCullin returns for what he says is the last time
The Making of Beyoncé
How the “Crazy in Love” singer, currently traveling the world on her Cowboy Carter tour, became more powerful than the music industry
Great Scot!
Americans, making up a growing share of St. Andrews’s student body, are transforming the quiet university once attended by William and Kate into a beer-pong-playing college campus
The View from Here
As Trump causes havoc in the United States, London has never looked more appealing
A Circus Succession Crisis
When a pencil pusher seized control of England’s most beloved circus, rumors of the wrong kind of funny business arose
Bosom Buddies
Michelle Mone, the scandal-plagued lingerie hawker known as “Baroness Bra,” has become a pariah in her native United Kingdom. Now she’s trying to start fresh in—where else?—Florida
“The Prettiest Village in England”
Drones are peering into bathrooms. Tourists are climbing fences. In Castle Combe, the pursuit of a picture-perfect moment knows no bounds
The Attention-Whore Index
David Beckham reaches out, the Sussexes let go, and Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez don’t hold back
Painting the Town Red
A bar crawl of D.C.’s MAGA hot spots—where conversation ranges from deporting Prince Harry to finding a husband—with Steve Bannon’s 24-year-old right-hand woman
The View from Here
A lot has been written about Trump’s second term. Kathy Hochul summed it up with a single barnyard epithet
Jared Does Albania
Why is the president’s son-in-law pursuing a multi-billion-dollar development deal on an uninhabited—and uninhabitable—former Cold War base?
An Affair to Remember
Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish army captain wrongfully accused of treason in a scandal immortalized by Zola, gets redemption
The Attention-Whore Index
Mary Miller gets ready for her close-up, Donald Trump takes aim at protesters, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fires all the vaccine experts
The View from Here
Will Trump use an obscure legal loophole to turn the National Guard into an anti-immigrant army answerable only to him?
A Grand Old Party
Donald Trump Jr.’s new Georgetown members’ club, Executive Branch, caters to the MAGA elite, with fine wines, R.F.K. Jr.–approved cuisine, and complete privacy from liberals
Save Venice!
The wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez is happening imminently, whether you like it or not. Here’s what to expect
An Embarrassment of Houses
New York, Water Mill, St. Tropez, Newport—Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman just can’t stop. Now he’s coming for the English countryside
The DOGE Days Are Over
After failing to slash much of anything but his own reputation and company stock, Musk has finally left the White House—and declared all-out war on his former boss
The Cult of Leto
He has acted in everything from American Psycho to House of Gucci. Now Jared Leto stands accused of impropriety by nine women
