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Yakuza Yuk It Up

Should the Rich Be Allowed to Buy the Best Genes?

A letter from Quebec City and parts west …

Can Sunken Treasures Save Fish?

Montauk’s Next Big Drink?

Norman Stone

Waspish, iconoclastic British historian was a man of the right in a field of mostly left-wingers

Foreign Intrigue

Why did a company part-owned by Jared Kushner receive $90 million in overseas funding?

It Was a Great Week for …

Head Case

Our gadget columnist tests a brain-enhancement device

Second-Class Goopsters

Thanks to Goop for Men, now the average guy can feel just as bad about his physical self as women do

As the World Melts …

The Curious Case of the Vogue Grifter

Yvonne Bannigan went from high-profile assistant to convicted felon. Hers is a particularly sad New York story

Shaggy Boris Story

A prime minister without a portfolio, pen, or a prepared speech

Burial Plots

Nanny State

Norland nannies have looked after royalty, rock stars—and even Boris Johnson. His sister recalls the hand that rocked the cradle

Grim Reaping

Forest twice the size of Wyoming destroyed to grow food

Good Reef

The View from Here

Supersonic Boom

New York to London could take 90 minutes

Hidden Figure

At the Moon launch, NASA engineer JoAnn Morgan took a small step for womankind

Karl-Ludwig Rehse

Couturier to the Queen

Instagroan

The End of Silent Suffering

It Was a Great Week for …

The Château That Ate Provence, Part I

The gaudy villa that has French countrysiders in a tizzy

First Scam on the Moon

Apollo 11 was one small step for man, one giant leap for some German philatelists