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
Race to the Bottom
As the heirs of the late Marchioness of Moratalla squabble over her estate, her prize-winning jumpers go hungry
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
I ❤️ MG
A longtime collaborator recalls Milton Glaser, a giant of midcentury graphic design
The End or the Beginning?
Anne Applebaum says democracy is in its final days. The author says, Not so fast
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
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A $60 million wedding, and then a big family dustup
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 …
Signifying Nothing
The coronavirus is not here to teach humanity a lesson. Beware of its self-proclaimed interpreters
The Fall Guy
Bronx nebbish Herb Stempel revealed that America’s best-rated quiz show was a fraud—and so was its beloved champion, Charles Van Doren
The Lion Queens
An elite group of female rangers take on wildlife poachers in Kenya
There’s the Rub
A massage therapist on Epstein’s Little St. James Island says Ghislaine Maxwell was the ultimate anti-victim
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?
Off with Their Perks
How “Penelopegate” sentenced a leading French pol to prison and shook the country’s ruling elite
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
