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Sub Human

A horrific end awaits a promising young journalist when she goes to meet an eccentric inventor in the dark waters off the coast of Copenhagen

The Reign in Spain Goes Mainly Down the Drain

Bad Blood and Big Money

A trial in London shows bankers in the worst possible light

Lily Cole

The British model who has shifted her focus from the fashion industry to environmental activism

La Chanteuse des Rues

Inspired by Edith Piaf, Lily Lian sang for the pedestrians of Paris

Flying Start

With help from Rolls-Royce, makers of the Concorde engines, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is at work on a jet that will cross the Atlantic in under two hours

Meet the World’s Most Photographed Polar Bear

It seems Misha is always available for nature paparazzi

Business and Pleasure

A member of Ghislaine Maxwell’s social circle digs into her traumatic childhood and complicated relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Race to the Bottom

As the heirs of the late Marchioness of Moratalla squabble over her estate, her prize-winning jumpers go hungry

Putin’s Fox News

How RT America’s blend of entertainment and disinformation is warping our politics

The View from Here

Bee List

The planet’s most vital species has life lessons for these turbulent times

Depp Charge!

In a post-coronavirus world, should there be room for an oafish, drug-raddled booze hound?

Leading Lady

Olivia de Havilland’s soft power on-screen blew away even the likes of Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh

Whine and Cheese

Does Finding Freedom really lay bare all the bitterness and infighting that drove Meghan and Harry to quit the royal family?

Worst. Bond Villain. Ever.

Beleaguered Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg disrupts Hawaii

Gondoliers’ Row

In Venice, a rule favoring the offspring of gondoliers sparked fury. Its defenders point to the importance of passing the tradition from father to son

The End or the Beginning?

Anne Applebaum says democracy is in its final days. The author says, Not so fast

I ❤️ MG

A longtime collaborator recalls Milton Glaser, a giant of midcentury graphic design

Depposition

This libel trial continues to expose celebrity behavior more depraved than anything the tabloids could invent

An Outsize Burden

America’s Black elite deserve to be reckoned with on their own terms—not those created by the media

Signifying Nothing

The coronavirus is not here to teach humanity a lesson. Beware of its self-proclaimed interpreters

The View from There

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A $60 million wedding, and then a big family dustup