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The Next Big Thing in Book-Club Land? Edge

Being a star isn’t enough anymore. One has to be cool too

The View from Here

Before he took a chain saw to government spending, Elon Musk used taxpayer funds to turn a failing business into a trillion-dollar company

Meghan Ever-Lasting

The real tradwife of Montecito just won’t stop. New this week is a rebrand of her lifestyle company, American Riviera Orchard

Dispatch from Klooga

How a young woman discovered her grandfather’s harrowing Holocaust-survival story, memorialized in a forgotten Life-magazine report by the famed war correspondent John Hersey

The Apostate

Trump’s dead-eyed hatchet man in the Justice Department, Emil Bove III, has attacked the very office that taught him the law—and betrayed the ideals he once espoused

Ukraine Upended

Ukrainians who endured three years of invasion, bombardments, and devastation are packing up to escape a Trump-brokered peace

Sisters in Arms

A new play about the early days of women’s lib asks: Where does the movement go from here?

A Broke Hallelujah

In the latest twist in a lengthy legal battle, Leonard Cohen’s children have accused their father’s former lawyer of siphoning millions from the singer’s estate

The Attention-Whore Index

Elon Musk is selling the farm, J. D. Vance is twisting arms, and for Kanye West, the Third Reich’s the charm

In Bad Faith

The only stone left unturned in the Baldoni-Lively saga seems to be Baldoni’s Baha’i faith, an obscure religion that touts unity and forbids backbiting

Stranded in NewSpace

It’s not just the fate of two marooned astronauts that’s at stake—it’s the future of interstellar travel

The View from Here

Trump’s dismantling of the Justice Department’s anti-corruption units is a going-out-of-business bonanza for dictators, kleptocrats, crooked officials, and organized-crime leaders

Employee of the Month

Penny Ante

Like so many other of Trump’s diktats aimed at crushing easy targets, his plan to be penny-wise is pound-foolish

Every Woman’s Romantasy

What does the explosive popularity of books by Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros say about female desire today?

Trump’s Mini-Me

Paolo Zampolli, the former modeling agent who introduced Melania to Donald, has stayed in the Mar-a-Lago circle, anticipating and echoing the president’s foreign-policy views

The View from Here

Trump’s model of political leadership? A cigar-chomping, baseball-bat-swinging, mobbed-up Brooklyn boss

Against All Odds

From ESPN and the Athletic to Bill Simmons and Dave Portnoy, sports media is fueling the online-gambling boom—and becoming utterly reliant upon it

Tommy Supreme and the Blitz

Tom Goldstein was a star in arguing cases before the Supreme Court. He was also one of the world’s highest-rolling—and most reckless—poker players. Then his worlds collided

The Attention-Whore Index

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t like your accent, Donald Trump doesn’t like your color, and Russell Brand doesn’t like your sexual-abuse allegations

Bridget Jones’s Substack

As the frazzled heroine returns to the cinema, we couldn’t help but wonder: How would Bridget Jones navigate Gen Z’s New York City?

The Muse Who Became a Sage

Marianne Faithfull inspired some of the greatest songs of the 60s and left her own indelible mark on the music of Brecht and Bob Dylan alike

It Never Ends with Them

As their frenzied mudslinging intensifies, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni seem to share a single goal: mutually assured destruction

The Naked Truth

In 2003, my novel about a woman who attends an awards show naked was dismissed as too far-fetched. A second Trump administration replaced fiction with fact—and laid bare American misogyny