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Lannister’s Greatest Battle Yet

In a post-Thrones world, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has become a climate warrior

All Woke and No Play

Academics retaliate against P.C. censorship terrorists with panic buttons

Villa Envy

Foreigners can buy a village town house in Sicily for the price of an espresso. And get a tax cut

John Lorimer

A war hero who survived a seemingly hopeless mission to eliminate a Nazi warship with a midget submarine

Shades of Blue:
Part II

A P.I. gets a call from a woman who saw him on TV. The job: Find her son’s killer. The police investigation fell apart eight years earlier. He takes the case …

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Boris’s Bunny Boiler

The British P.M.’s onetime American friend Jennifer Arcuri wants to publish diaries detailing their trysts and telephone calls

The Blogger Who Brought Down a Government

Malta’s “one-woman WikiLeaks” believed she was on the trail of a massive conspiracy. She was right

Shades of Blue

Shots are fired outside an unsavory Tennessee bar, killing the proprietor—an off-duty cop. When the case goes cold, the cop’s grieving family takes matters into their own hands

The Runaway Groom

Britain’s most-wanted con man bewitched, bamboozled, and embezzled

Ars Longa, Bullshit Longer

How we are fooled by pretentious titles on art

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The Speed Demons of Medellín

“Gravity biking,” a wild sport in which teenage boys hurtle down steep streets on bicycles at 70 m.p.h., is taking over Colombia

Who Really Killed Jimmy Hoffa?

(And was the frozen salmon a red herring?)

Birds Are Losing the Climate Fight

Global warming causes some species to become smaller

Far-Left = Left Out

The collapse of Labour is a stark reminder of what will go wrong when a party (that’s you, Democrats) puts ideological purity above people and pragmatism

“How Do I Sew a Button On?”

For Gen Z: the hottest college trend? “Adulting” classes, where kids learn skills Mommy and Daddy forgot to teach them

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Saving Whales Is More Important than Planting Trees

Restoring them to their pre-hunting numbers could capture 1.7 billion tons of CO2 annually

Mein Campf!

The scandalous Hitler-diaries fiasco nearly brought down three major news organizations

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An Open-and-Shut Case

Grand larceny and the secret of the spying oysters

Lucette Destouches

Céline’s muse tended to the author’s rather complicated legacy during 58 years of widowhood