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Barbarians at the School Gate

Part II: Illicit affairs? Kids out of wedlock? Will smear-mongering parents trash one of New York’s most elite schools?

There’s the Rub

A massage therapist on Epstein’s Little St. James Island says Ghislaine Maxwell was the ultimate anti-victim

The View from Here

Money Pit

The sheikh who can’t remember how many villas and castles he owns

The Passenger

Why Jeffrey Epstein cultivated a friendship with Bill Clinton is obvious. What the ex-president got out of it is harder to explain

Voyage of the Damned

The harrowing inside story of the coronavirus-ravaged cruise ship with 2,500 passengers that no one wanted

The View from There

The Art of the Steal

Jet-setting art dealer Inigo Philbrick is facing 20 years in jail after the F.B.I. bound his hands with zip ties and arrested him on a South Pacific island

The Making of a Madam

Growing up, Ghislaine Maxwell was envied, admired, and teased, but what made her conspire with Jeffrey Epstein for decades?

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The Real Benjamin Braddock

Charles Webb rebelled against his privileged upbringing by writing The Graduate—then renounced his own phenomenal success

The African Conspiracy

Did white Europeans, led by a shadowy “Mr. X,” kill the U.N. secretary-general 60 years ago—to keep power over black Africans?

Help Is Here?

In pandemic times, the most privileged New Yorkers find that dealing with domestic staff is especially fraught

The View from Here

Anatomy of a Catastrophe

Why we need a coronavirus commission, and who should—and shouldn’t—lead it

Capital Offenses

The latest battleground in the push for racial justice? The copydesk

The Making of a Predator, Part III

Just why did Georgina Chapman marry Harvey? And what did she get out of it?

Back to School

A nation of strivers under lockdown meets the à la carte subscription academy MasterClass

Live at the Front

Vera Lynn’s torch songs were not high art, but they kept up morale among the rank-and-file British soldiers fighting W.W. II

Dutch Courage

At a protest in Amsterdam, flashbacks to a childhood shaped by the civil-rights movement

Monuments Men

Guess which side surrendered at Appomattox

Will Some Twentysomethings Take Down Trump?

Two roommates sue the president for violating their constitutional rights—simply so he could pose with a Bible

Estate of Affairs

Tax fraud, an absent accountant, and squabbling male models are threatening to undermine Karl Lagerfeld’s legacy

Deconstructing the Middletons

Why can’t the British press stop talking about Kate’s fun-loving family?