Sisters in Arms
Why are young British women volunteering to fight and die alongside the Kurds?
Outsourcing the Holidays
Why go to the trouble of decorating when these enterprising entrepreneurs will handle the heavy lifting?
Impostor Syndrome
German businessman who posed as an anti-Nazi martyr was actually a Hitler loyalist and wartime profiteer
Flood Zone
Venice, its masterpieces, and its gondolas are underwater and floundering
Last Call
In his new venture, Exit Here, Oliver Peyton brings his velvet-rope, nightlife-impresario approach to the funeral business
Reefer Madness
Pot dealers literally go underground to tend a $50 million cannabis farm below the center of London
Inside the C.I.A.’s Tortured Logic
Why did the agency give two idiots $80 million in taxpayer money for illegal torture ideas? The writer and director of The Report shares his unredacted thoughts
The Sex App
Ferly, the digital platform that tells you everything you wanted to know about libido and “self-pleasure”
Dave Eggers Takes On Donald Trump
A conversation about his new book—and what Obama gets right about our current culture
Sir Spankalot
A knighted British retail billionaire who partied with Beyoncé and Leonardo DiCaprio now faces ruin and misdemeanor-assault charges
The Most Important Man on Earth
David Attenborough is beloved in Britain, and, at 93, a global star. Now he’s sounding alarms about the planet. Is he too late?
Unbuild the Wall
The night they drove old Deutschland down
Throne for a Loss
Why do the royals keep falling for moneyed mountebanks and billionaire bounders?
Why Do Rich People Love to Shoplift?
A week before he was busted for petty larceny at Kmart, a man had paid $8 million for an island in the Florida Keys
“What Ho, Sergei!”
Rich Russian family advertises for a butler who can shimmer like Jeeves
Private Jets Feel the Greta Effect
Climate collapse? Who cares! Bill Gates, Oprah, and the rich Chinese fly high. Swedes are getting grounded
Marjorie Blamey
Britain’s most prolific wildflower painter, and a serious world traveler
Speak, Memory. Faster!
Are you smart enough to compete in the European Quizzing Championships?
Marking Their Territory
Thanks to the tech crowd, San Francisco is now home to more dogs than children—and the city is forever changed
Exposing Bush’s Lies about C.I.A. Torture
Daniel Jones—played by Adam Driver in The Report—is still haunted by what he learned
The #MeToo Minefield
In The Problem with Everything, Meghan Daum finds herself caught in the middle of the culture wars
