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Split Waterman

Charismatic, risk-taking, gun- and gold-smuggling motorcycle star lived on the edge

In Cold Blue Blood

The mystery of the missing French aristocrat who vanished after murdering his wife, children, and dogs

Stranger Things Is Happening

In London, obsessive fans of the show can now live in Hawkins, Indiana—and follow in the steps of Mike, Dustin, and the gang

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Imperial Japan’s Last Casualty

General Shiba Goro did not fight in World War II, but he chose to die for it

Naughty Nights with Randy Andy

Models, masseuses, and (ahem) more were part of the princely pleasures of the Duke of York. One fellow partyer lived to tell the tale …

Troubled Waters

The world’s oceans now have more plastic than fish

The Blinder Side

The author of Moneyball and Liar’s Poker wants to take on climate change, but cannot find the right antihero to champion

The Calm Before the Storm

A letter from Hong Kong

The Aquifer

A short play about climate change

Village Idiot

A dot-com entrepreneur is reviled as he tries to restore his ancestral village in Devon in the style of Silicon Valley

Keith Schellenberg

The reliably colorful laird of Eigg who married often and liked to view the world from an open-top Bentley

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How to Kill a Predator

Backed by big-bucks conservatives, and with deep ties in D.C., the Pacific Legal Foundation is systematically destroying U.S. wildlife protections

And Jeffrey Epstein, Your Highness?

How an acclaimed BBC interviewer got Prince Andrew into the hot seat—and further into hot water

Fighting a Burning Injustice

Threatened with death, this professor battles giant corporations setting fire to rare wilderness areas

Terry O’Neill

The photographer who once wanted to be a priest captured Swinging London’s cultural revolution in the 1960s

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Prince Andrew and Boris Johnson get ratings that rival those of The Crown (not in a good way)

Sisters in Arms

Why are young British women volunteering to fight and die alongside the Kurds?

Outsourcing the Holidays

Why go to the trouble of decorating when these enterprising entrepreneurs will handle the heavy lifting?

Impostor Syndrome

German businessman who posed as an anti-Nazi martyr was actually a Hitler loyalist and wartime profiteer

The Sex App

Ferly, the digital platform that tells you everything you wanted to know about libido and “self-pleasure”

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