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?
Benched
A former Trump-appointed judge (of the Miss USA pageant) has some advice for Amy Coney Barrett
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
Sussex Fatigue
Meghan and Harry are making the British yearn for the Queen Mum
Scandale à Paris
The millennial French influencer Léna Mahfouf, whose new book is outselling classics, earns the ire of the Parisian intelligentsia
New York’s Hottest “It Girl”? Hunter Biden
Nothing gets the Cool Kids’ respect like some topless, cracked-out photos
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
Did a Russian Oligarch Get Snookered by a Rothschild Banker?
Sergey Bogdanchikov ran one of the world’s biggest oil companies. Then he fell under the spell of the Rothschild name
Holy Terror
The cardinal in charge of vetting saints is fired over charges that he embezzled Vatican funds meant for the poor
The View from Here
At The New York Times, are privileged white males playing the race card?
Kind Hearts and a Baronet?
What happens when an eccentric 74-year-old British aristocrat looks for someone to pay him $23,000 to live with him?
Into Thin Air
Buddhist and bon vivant Ang Rita Sherpa—known as “the Snow Leopard”—led first-class expeditions (and an elusive life)
The Art of the Deal in the U.K.
In London, Trump angles for a 999-year lease
Plastic-Eating “Super-Enzyme” Spawned in Lab!
Will nature be able to clean up our mess?
Africa Rising
Harvard? Yale? Princeton? A nonprofit program is recruiting Kenya’s top high-school students and connecting them with America’s most competitive universities
No Spring Chickens
Women—most of them single and nearing their mid-30s—are rushing to freeze their eggs as the coronavirus makes finding a partner more difficult
The View from Here
Infectious, on steroids, and in denial, Trump rages against reality as fate smiles and says, “You’re welcome”
A Whale of a Good-Bye
Scientists have deciphered the songs blue whales sing to each other before they migrate
California Girl
Ann Getty was a stunning bi-coastal socialite who rescued Grove Press, the radically chic publisher of D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Samuel Beckett, because she loved to read
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
La Dolce Vita dei Media
Is Gianni Agnelli’s grandson taking a page from Jeff Bezos?
Hugging My Pillow
A day in the Notting Hill life of the great British actor
Trouble in Berlin
The ultra-liberal Berlin Film Festival faces criticism as its founder is revealed to have been a member of the Nazi Party
Party Like It’s 1929!
Americans are finagling their way around international-travel bans and decamping to Europe, where the living is (comparatively) easy
