Imperial Japan’s Last Casualty
General Shiba Goro did not fight in World War II, but he chose to die for it
The Calm Before the Storm
A letter from Hong Kong
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
In Cold Blue Blood
The mystery of the missing French aristocrat who vanished after murdering his wife, children, and dogs
Troubled Waters
The world’s oceans now have more plastic than fish
Split Waterman
Charismatic, risk-taking, gun- and gold-smuggling motorcycle star lived on the edge
Village Idiot
A dot-com entrepreneur is reviled as he tries to restore his ancestral village in Devon in the style of Silicon Valley
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
The Aquifer
A short play about climate change
Keith Schellenberg
The reliably colorful laird of Eigg who married often and liked to view the world from an open-top Bentley
Fighting a Burning Injustice
Threatened with death, this professor battles giant corporations setting fire to rare wilderness areas
And Jeffrey Epstein, Your Highness?
How an acclaimed BBC interviewer got Prince Andrew into the hot seat—and further into hot water
Terry O’Neill
The photographer who once wanted to be a priest captured Swinging London’s cultural revolution in the 1960s
The View from There
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
Flood Zone
Venice, its masterpieces, and its gondolas are underwater and floundering
Sir Spankalot
A knighted British retail billionaire who partied with Beyoncé and Leonardo DiCaprio now faces ruin and misdemeanor-assault charges
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”
