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The new toy for billionaires, and more quirky news for these curious days
Mayor Mike 2.0?
Is Raymond McGuire—Wall Street player and political novice—the man to replace de Blasio? The big-bucks elite think so
The Last Place on Earth You Can Escape the Pandemic
Antarctica is the only virus-free continent. But will that last?
Breathing Fire
Millennials are taking the coronavirus particularly badly. Is their discontent rooted in something deeper than not being able to party?
The View from Here
The fountain of age
Three-Ways, U.K.-Style
It’s Netflix/Palace vs. No. 10 for this week’s biggest ratings
Mademoiselle’s Literary Glam Girl
Edie Locke encouraged Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan while publishing Truman Capote and John Updike
What Lies Beneath …
A town house collapses in Chelsea as the underground lairs of some of London’s wealthiest residents may be cracking under the pressure
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Stanley Kubrick’s unfulfilled dream, and more quirky news for these curious days
Diana’s Last Days
Divorced from Prince Charles and estranged from the royal family, the Princess of Wales finds romance and an adoring public
Pedaling Bad Behavior
SoulCycle was always cultish. Now instructors are accused of having sex with clients, racism, and more
A Prince Is Born
While Diana upstaged Charles and gave birth to William, her marriage faltered, and Camilla’s visits to Highgrove, Charles’s family home, became more frequent
The King’s Gambit
Is Spain’s exiled monarch, Juan Carlos, running out of moves?
Shot in the Dark
I was a lab rat for the new coronavirus vaccine
Was Diana Duped?
Earl Spencer accuses the BBC of swindling his sister out of secrets in her infamous interview
Joe Biden’s Not-So-Secret Weapon
American-born and raised in France by a stepfather who had survived the Holocaust, Tony Blinken will shape the next president’s global relations
When Charles Met Diana
As Netflix unveils The Crown’s Diana years, a closer look at the princess-to-be who sobbed her way through her wedding rehearsal
King of Queens
Is newly elected New York State representative Zohran Kwame Mamdani the next A.O.C.?
The View from Here
A concession speech for a presidential loser who won’t admit he’s, well, a loser
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news for these rather curious days
Instagram’s Brave New World
Influencers who are computer-generated and who, like their followers, never sleep
“A Bit of a Clever Dick”
Scottish actor-comedian John Sessions voiced Laurence Olivier, acted with Meryl Streep, and channeled Keith Richards
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news for these rather curious days
No One Spikes These Stories
How Substack became home to big-name journalists who felt “the Youngs” in newsrooms were putting wokeness ahead of important ideas