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I said I wouldn’t write about Kanye West again, but I was wrong. I reacted in the 90 minutes after he sent “White Lives Matter” T-shirts down the runway because I thought that was the low point, the grossest interpretation of hate speech,…

As you can see, the trouble comes down to rumors and gossip—not so much he-said-she-said, as nobody said. Unfortunately, the “no comment” strategy somehow ratcheted up the ante, leaving us all guessing and grappling for the truth. But at…

Raise a negroni sbagliato with prosecco in it, Anna Delvey is a free woman. We all know the story of Delvey (real name: Anna Sorokin)—a Russian immigrant who posed as a German heiress and deceptively obtained lumps of cash in the pursuit of…

Today in Paris, Kanye West sent “White Lives Matter” T-shirts down the runway at his YZYS9 presentation, and I honestly can’t tell if I should be writing about the impact of using a far-right slogan on a tee or ignoring it completely like…

Stop the presses: Rihanna is playing the halftime show at the Super Bowl, and our collective performance anxiety is peaking. We have more unanswered questions than—I dunno—the sphinx? What will she sing? Her back catalogue is plentiful,…

Nothing quite signals the end of summer like a day-long televised state funeral. As the U.K.’s monarch was laid to rest on Monday, there wasn’t much to do but quietly observe: Proceedings felt poised and proper, the surviving royals…

I’m not sure if you noticed—perhaps you were buying winter knits, or bemoaning Disney’s new Black mermaid—but Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch, passed away on Thursday.When the news broke, I was hesitant to write…

While enjoying the roaring success of the Lionesses at the Euro 2022 tournament, some of us stopped mid-celebratory-scroll on Instagram, mouths agog, at a picture of Geri Halliwell and the current British culture secretary Nadine Dorries…

Greetings from the beating heart of the heatwave—or, should I say, the day after. On Tuesday, as temperatures soared across Europe, Britain reached the highest ever recorded. The word “dying” trended on Twitter in the U.K. because our…

Men, what’s stopping you from talking about abortion rights? I don’t mean to be rude, but in the wake of the Supreme Court ending the constitutionally-protected right to abortion, those leading the conversation have been disproportionately…