Letter from Cairo
In Egypt, a bad feeling about what the fallout from the Soleimani assassination might bring
How to Be Cool and Warm at Once
The irreplaceable publisher Sonny Mehta, who died on December 30, possessed the rare ability to unite style and sincerity
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
All Woke and No Play
Academics retaliate against P.C. censorship terrorists with panic buttons
Lannister’s Greatest Battle Yet
In a post-Thrones world, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has become a climate warrior
Boris’s Bunny Boiler
The British P.M.’s onetime American friend Jennifer Arcuri wants to publish diaries detailing their trysts and telephone calls
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 …
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
Birds Are Losing the Climate Fight
Global warming causes some species to become smaller
Who Really Killed Jimmy Hoffa?
(And was the frozen salmon a red herring?)
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
The Runaway Groom
Britain’s most-wanted con man bewitched, bamboozled, and embezzled
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
Ars Longa, Bullshit Longer
How we are fooled by pretentious titles on art
Mein Campf!
The scandalous Hitler-diaries fiasco nearly brought down three major news organizations
“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
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
Saving Whales Is More Important than Planting Trees
Restoring them to their pre-hunting numbers could capture 1.7 billion tons of CO2 annually
The Man Who Played with Fire
The curious moral trajectory of David Boies
An Open-and-Shut Case
Grand larceny and the secret of the spying oysters