From Queen Mum to Prince Overshare
The latest royal drama? The tension between those who keep a stiff upper lip (Elizabeth, William, Anne, and Kate) and those who don’t (Harry, Meghan, and Charles)
National Capitalism
A picturesque German town with local growth industries: hospitality, concerts, and neo-Nazi tat. It also might be a key to the future of the country
Hiding in Plain Sight
A trove of Hitler artifacts in Argentina shows just how many Nazis escaped justice after the war
A Daunting Task
James Daunt, the bookstore buccaneer, wants to save Barnes & Noble
French Nails at Dawn!
The WAGatha Christie of the Real Housewives of British football
Irene Shubik
The television producer who gave us Rumpole of the Bailey and The Jewel in the Crown
The Playing Fields of Money
The Swiss school that charges around $130,000 a year to raise the future global elite
Me and My Shadow
Lost without the Instagram Following tab
From Russia with Something Other than Love
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once his nation’s richest man, spent a decade in a Siberian prison. Still, he has a great laugh
Boris Johnson’s Ishtar
The British prime minister’s hitherto undiscovered and very un-woke movie treatment
Bronze Age. Iron Age.
Now, the Plastic Age
Congratulations: your garbage has entered Earth’s fossil record
Dirndl Power
Behind the beer-soaked scenes at the corporate-networking extravaganza known as Oktoberfest
They Shoot Horses
For the Stronach family, the fallout from the recent horse deaths at their Santa Anita racetrack is only part of a larger family feud with echoes of King Lear and Succession
Stately Hellhole
In a 100-room Palladian palace, the Marquess of Hertford makes his son sleep on an air mattress
She Worked Hard for His Money
Will Boris Johnson’s relationship with a pole-dancing American model who appeared in Naughty @ 40 lead him to prison?
Protest or Die?
Extinction Rebellion argues that radical, mass nonviolent civil disobedience is the only way to change current climate policies. On October 7, they’re going global
Meet Jesse Cohn, the Gordon Gekko for Millennial Brahs
Attention C.E.O.’s of America: Do not ignore him
Golden Head
Whodunit? A $6 million toilet is stolen from Churchill’s ancestral home
Very High and Drying
The little-known “third pole,” in Asia’s high peaks, is one of the most ecologically diverse places on Earth