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Warming Trend

According to actress turned Lady Sophie Winkleman, marrying into the Windsors isn’t nearly as bad as it seems

Javanka in Exile

Will Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner ever regain a place in high society, or are they simply too toxic?

Dyslexia’s Dynamic Champion

Patience Thomson was a pioneer for misunderstood children

Did You Hear
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Curious news about these strange days

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

President Spamalot

Trump fails to make e-mail great again

James Hirschfeld

He started Paperless Post as an undergrad at Harvard. Ahead of the company’s busiest time of year, the founder explains how he got here

The Girl Who Outsmarted the Nazis

Janine de Greef spirited Allied airmen out of German territory

Last Call for the Essex Girl

Oxford University Press silences a stereotype

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Curious news about these quirky days

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

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 High-Society Inventor

Peter Florjancic’s life may have been his best creation

No Secret Handshake Required

The Freemasons go public (and put a price tag on it)

Shot in the Dark

Will public shaming deter the 1 percent from cutting the line for the coronavirus vaccine?

#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

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Curious news about these strange days

Divorce, Oligarch-Style

The ex-wife of an oil-and-gas baron goes to the mattresses to get hold of her $600 million settlement

The View from Here

Since the Cold War, the U.S. has had doomsday plans for saving itself. But Trump proves that the greatest threat comes from within

The Duke of Substance

Prince Harry offers a cure for climate change from his nine-bedroom mansion, in California

Battle of the Sexists

Arguments over free speech dominate at Eton and Cambridge

Isa Stoppi

She was Italy’s first great model. Richard Avedon called her “the most beautiful woman in the world”

The View from Here

Trump, his enablers, and his Florida bolt-hole all have dark precedents