Last Call for the Essex Girl
Oxford University Press silences a stereotype
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A Friend Among Spies
For 60 years, real-life spy turned author John le Carré wrote elegant best-sellers that used the world of espionage to expose the complexities of human nature
The View from Here
A New York organization is helping Jewish families recover possessions stolen by the Nazis. Among them: paintings by Tintoretto and Klimt
Woke Awards
Who will make Harry and Meghan’s honors list, the Sussexes’ alternative to the Palace’s annual tradition?
Boy’s Family Sues Elite Camp
Brant Lake faces three civil lawsuits over sex abuse
The High-Society Inventor
Peter Florjancic’s life may have been his best creation
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Since the Cold War, the U.S. has had doomsday plans for saving itself. But Trump proves that the greatest threat comes from within
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Divorce, Oligarch-Style
The ex-wife of an oil-and-gas baron goes to the mattresses to get hold of her $600 million settlement
#NeverLeaving
Trump’s not the first loser to be dragged kicking and screaming from high office. A century ago, it was a New York City Hall janitor who just wouldn’t let go
Shot in the Dark
Will public shaming deter the 1 percent from cutting the line for the coronavirus vaccine?
No Secret Handshake Required
The Freemasons go public (and put a price tag on it)
The Duke of Substance
Prince Harry offers a cure for climate change from his nine-bedroom mansion, in California
A Tech Tycoon’s Prison Tweets
Before the anti-virus-software guru John McAfee died in prison in Spain, he was a social media animal
Psst! A Special Roundup of Scandal and Crime
From The Orgasm Cult to Ghislaine Maxwell’s travails, we’ve got it all
Crystal Clearing
London private-equity bigwigs are enlisting crystal healers to tell their wives they want a divorce—and paying them hefty sums to do it
The View from Here
Trump, his enablers, and his Florida bolt-hole all have dark precedents
Isa Stoppi
She was Italy’s first great model. Richard Avedon called her “the most beautiful woman in the world”
Battle of the Sexists
Arguments over free speech dominate at Eton and Cambridge
The Politics of Bad Behavior
Melania, Ivanka, and the double standards of the single-minded
Mayor Mike 2.0?
Is Raymond McGuire—Wall Street player and political novice—the man to replace de Blasio? The big-bucks elite think so
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The fun of fashion-shaming
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