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Harry and Meghan Have Security Issues

They’ll be spending millions to stay safe. If they think they’re getting Kevin Costner from The Bodyguard, they’re in for a ride

My Crazy
Ex-Oligarch

Threats, lies, and armed guards: it’s all too real for the woman once married to a Russian dubbed “Putin’s banker”

My Name Is Karen …

… and I do not want to speak to your manager

The New King of All Media

Scott Galloway, one half of the must-listen podcast Pivot, is everywhere these days, railing against big tech and spreading big ideas

A Clean (and Green) Slate

How the travel industry is using the lockdown to build sustainable, eco-friendly businesses

Burn After Reading

In a baffling twist of fate, a new study reveals that smokers are less likely to get the coronavirus than those who abstain

Red Summer

A century ago, another U.S. president and his top cop turned a blind eye to violence against black Americans

Diamonds Are a Thief’s Best Friend

A daring and, some would say, inspired $4.5 million jewel heist in the middle of Mayfair

Nazi Lockdown

The German occupation crushed ordinary life in Paris as its citizens hid from the “brown plague”

The View from Here

James Sherwood

In 1982, he boldly resurrected the fabled Orient Express. It became the cornerstone of Belmond, the billion-dollar hotel group

Bleach Party

For enterprising hoteliers, paranoia is the new sustainability

Sex and the System

In New York and in red-light districts around the world, intimacy just got even more complicated

Social (Media) Unrest

For twentysomething protesters, passions run high. Not just in the streets but also on Instagram

Cummings and Goings

Boris Johnson’s top Brexit attack dog, Dominic Cummings, tries to explain why he broke lockdown—while infected—to frolic in the country

Death Becomes Him

Stéphane Bourgoin enjoyed a dazzling career as France’s top expert on serial killers. There was only one little problem …

Putin on the Fritz?

Russia’s strongman fights the coronavirus invasion with faked data and in retreat

The View from There

The Robespierre of Lafayette Street

The director who first staged The Normal Heart remembers the many-sided activist-playwright Larry Kramer

Don’t Call It a Comeback

Where are they now? Wishing you a happy birthday (or anniversary, etc.) for a fee on Cameo

Living Your Best Lockdown

If practical advice from even Gwyneth Paltrow herself (!) can’t improve your situation … well, you’re on your own

Bees Do It. Very, Very Well

New research reveals they know a little trick to make a garden buzz with delight

A Debtor’s Prison

Are Prince Andrew’s fragile finances to blame for his entanglement in the Jeffrey Epstein debacle?

Up in Smoke

The secret ingredient to some of the world’s record-breaking climbs? A pack of cigarettes