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Why Francis Ford Coppola should be cherished for being the last great dreamer in Hollywood

The Great Escape

With the ever increasing danger that Trump might win the election, many Americans are planning their exit strategies

The Attention-Whore Index

Harry and Meghan are delinquent, Kristi Noem can’t stop fibbing, and Donald Trump would probably like to eat your liver. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

The Secret Daughter

A battle over the estate of Mario D’Urso—the Italian banker and senator who epitomized the 1970s jet set—gets complicated when a daughter he didn’t know he had enters the picture

The Long War at Columbia University

In 2004, a short Internet documentary accusing particular professors of anti-Semitism provoked a local furor. Today, some see it as an unheeded warning

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Scenes from the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

C. J. Sansom

The Scottish author created a new genre of literature—historical crime—and sold more than two million copies of his captivating Shardlake series

No Strings Attached

People are increasingly turning to “A.I. companion” sites for physical and emotional intimacy—whether they’re single in real life or not

Hello, Ladies!

The Garrick Club—the preferred snoozing, dining, and watering hole of King Charles, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Sting—has finally voted to accept female members. Not everyone is happy

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Kristi Noem is in the doghouse, the Met Gala is a deranged dystopia, and Donald Trump is getting down and dirty. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

A Conspiracy of One

When high-profile members of the British Establishment—including a former prime minister—were accused of being pedophiles, the country tore itself apart trying to find the truth

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For too long, Big Tech has enjoyed freedom without responsibility

The Attention-Whore Index

Harry and Meghan are back in the spotlight, Kristi Noem shoots a puppy, and Donald Trump is discontented in court. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

Maximum Speed and Micro Bikinis

Eurotrash, tech bros, and global power brokers mingle at the crypto-currency-sponsored orgy of excess that is the Formula One Miami Grand Prix

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Donald Trump creates a stink, Joe Biden causes offense, and Taylor Swift doth protest too much. Plus, the most peculiar news from around the world

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Blocking traffic. Throwing soup at the Mona Lisa. Lighting oneself on fire. Radical acts of protest are guaranteed to make headlines. But do they work?

Hamptons Agonistes

When the starry New York club Zero Bond tried to lease a historic inn in tony East Hampton, battle lines were swiftly drawn in the well-groomed sand

Selling Sussex

Harry and Meghan’s new director of communications has a Sisyphean task: making the pair, well, likable. Four public-relations experts weigh in on how they would achieve the impossible

The Eyes of a Killer: Part VII

It began as a routine hearing. Then came a pair of revelations that could upend the government’s case against Bryan Kohberger

Apocalypse Now

As Earth Day approaches, Edward Burtynsky’s haunting aerial photographs confront the stark reality of humankind’s industrial impact on the planet

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Extra! Extra! AIR MAIL opens a newsstand in New York’s West Village

The Zelig of Awful

Meet Scott Thorson: Liberace’s ex. Witness in the notorious Wonderland murders. Televangelist. Drug runner for the Mob

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Harry and Meghan are on display, Donald Trump is nodding off, and Elon Musk is always (far) right. Plus, the most peculiar news from around the world

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A qualified defense of other people