So, Maybe You Should Toke with the Rabbi?
For weed-loving Jews, edibles are manna. But a kosher option? Not so easy
The View from There
What if Trump had been president during the AIDS crisis?
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
Race to the Bottom
As the heirs of the late Marchioness of Moratalla squabble over her estate, her prize-winning jumpers go hungry
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
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
Putin’s Fox News
How RT America’s blend of entertainment and disinformation is warping our politics
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
Stung by Their Beauty
Bees are earth’s keystone species. If they perish, we perish. So, what happens when you add 250,000 bees to your farm? Well, things start buzzing …
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A $60 million wedding, and then a big family dustup
Signifying Nothing
The coronavirus is not here to teach humanity a lesson. Beware of its self-proclaimed interpreters
An Outsize Burden
America’s Black elite deserve to be reckoned with on their own terms—not those created by the media
Depposition
This libel trial continues to expose celebrity behavior more depraved than anything the tabloids could invent
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
Sounding the Alarm
Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on cancel culture and the future of free speech
Money Pit
The sheikh who can’t remember how many villas and castles he owns
