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And Jeffrey Epstein, Your Highness?

How an acclaimed BBC interviewer got Prince Andrew into the hot seat—and further into hot water

Impostor Syndrome

German businessman who posed as an anti-Nazi martyr was actually a Hitler loyalist and wartime profiteer

Fighting a Burning Injustice

Threatened with death, this professor battles giant corporations setting fire to rare wilderness areas

Last Call

In his new venture, Exit Here, Oliver Peyton brings his velvet-rope, nightlife-impresario approach to the funeral business

Flood Zone

Venice, its masterpieces, and its gondolas are underwater and floundering

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

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”

The View from Here

Sir Spankalot

A knighted British retail billionaire who partied with Beyoncé and Leonardo DiCaprio now faces ruin and misdemeanor-assault charges

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?

Throne for a Loss

Why do the royals keep falling for moneyed mountebanks and billionaire bounders?

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

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“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

Marking Their Territory

Thanks to the tech crowd, San Francisco is now home to more dogs than children—and the city is forever changed

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?

The View from Here

Grifter of the Goop Set

Belle Gibson knew just how to dupe the wellness-worried

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