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
Flood Zone
Venice, its masterpieces, and its gondolas are underwater and floundering
Reefer Madness
Pot dealers literally go underground to tend a $50 million cannabis farm below the center of London
Dave Eggers Takes On Donald Trump
A conversation about his new book—and what Obama gets right about our current culture
The Sex App
Ferly, the digital platform that tells you everything you wanted to know about libido and “self-pleasure”
Sir Spankalot
A knighted British retail billionaire who partied with Beyoncé and Leonardo DiCaprio now faces ruin and misdemeanor-assault charges
Last Call
In his new venture, Exit Here, Oliver Peyton brings his velvet-rope, nightlife-impresario approach to the funeral business
Inside the C.I.A.’s Tortured Logic
Why did the agency give two idiots $80 million in taxpayer money for illegal torture ideas? The writer and director of The Report shares his unredacted thoughts
The Most Important Man on Earth
David Attenborough is beloved in Britain, and, at 93, a global star. Now he’s sounding alarms about the planet. Is he too late?
Why Do Rich People Love to Shoplift?
A week before he was busted for petty larceny at Kmart, a man had paid $8 million for an island in the Florida Keys
“What Ho, Sergei!”
Rich Russian family advertises for a butler who can shimmer like Jeeves
Unbuild the Wall
The night they drove old Deutschland down
Throne for a Loss
Why do the royals keep falling for moneyed mountebanks and billionaire bounders?
Private Jets Feel the Greta Effect
Climate collapse? Who cares! Bill Gates, Oprah, and the rich Chinese fly high. Swedes are getting grounded
Marjorie Blamey
Britain’s most prolific wildflower painter, and a serious world traveler
Speak, Memory. Faster!
Are you smart enough to compete in the European Quizzing Championships?
Marking Their Territory
Thanks to the tech crowd, San Francisco is now home to more dogs than children—and the city is forever changed
The #MeToo Minefield
In The Problem with Everything, Meghan Daum finds herself caught in the middle of the culture wars
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
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)
