The Dark Romance and Grim Reality of Life in the French Foreign Legion

Legionnaires need war, and Afghanistan is winding down. But there's always the hopeless battle against rogue gold miners in French Guiana . . . | Continue reading


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The ultimate bias in journalism is not political. It’s toward controversy, gaffes, and scandal—shiny new things that get ratings and shares and downloads. There’s a rather obvious lesson here for Democrats seeking the White House—and for media elites who are tragically out of tou … | Continue reading


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The Real Story Behind the Havana Embassy Mystery

U.S. officials say dozens of diplomats in Cuba were felled by a sonic “attack.” But the likeliest culprit is far less futuristic—and much more terrifying. | Continue reading


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The Global Network of Monarchists Helping Deposed Kings and Queens

As democracies stumble and autocracies rise, former monarchs and hopeful claimants clamor for their jobs back. Maybe it’s a good idea. | Continue reading


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The Future Innovators Index 2018

Introducing the Hive’s first annual ranking of the 13 young tech innovators who are challenging and—yes—disrupting Silicon Valley. | Continue reading


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How a Real-Estate Scuffle Turned into a True Tale of Miami Vice

They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion. | Continue reading


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‘It Happened to My Father the Way It Happened’: The Truth About Green Book

The feel-good, awards-friendly dramedy is built on a shaky “true story” foundation that both clarifies and exacerbates its problems. | Continue reading


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The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg

Harvard Business School invented the “leadership” industry—and produced a generation of corporate monsters. No wonder Sandberg, one of the school’s most prominent graduates, lacks a functioning moral compass. | Continue reading


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Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix

Someone finally realized this was a potentially catastrophic idea. | Continue reading


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Can Facebook Ever Solve Its Truthiness Problem?

Is Mark Zuckerberg blithely ignorant to consequences, or has Facebook grown so big that these violations were unknown to upper management, and it’s all just coming out in the wash now? According to Silicon Valley insiders, it’s a bit of both. | Continue reading


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How We Disrupted the Fun Out of TV

Without Game of Thrones, we got a glimpse of the future of television. Spoiler alert: it’s not pretty. | Continue reading


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The Found Footage That Provides a Whole New Look at the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

In the new documentary Apollo 11, freshly unearthed footage of the 1969 lunar mission, with the help of a community of space nerds, will tell the story of the historic event in a new way, making the film as much a cinematic discovery as a celestial one. | Continue reading


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"Who Needs a Controversy Over the Inauguration?": Reince Priebus Opens Up About His Six Months of Magical Thinking

Months after his chaotic resignation as chief of staff, and with his successor on the hot seat, Priebus comes clean about everything: the inauguration crowd-size fiasco, the decision to fire Comey, the Mooch, the tweets, how he helped saved Jeff Sessions’s job, and his mercurial … | Continue reading


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HBS invented “leadership” industry–and produced generation of corporate monsters

Harvard Business School invented the “leadership” industry—and produced a generation of corporate monsters. No wonder Sandberg, one of the school’s most prominent graduates, lacks a functioning moral compass. | Continue reading


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"Everyone's for Sale": Winter Has Arrived for the Digital-Media Darlings

Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, which once heralded the dawn of a new media age, are now grappling with decidedly old-media problems. | Continue reading


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Everyone's for sale: Digital media properties are all in trouble

Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, which once heralded the dawn of a new media age, are now grappling with decidedly old-media problems. | Continue reading


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The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg

Harvard Business School invented the “leadership” industry—and produced a generation of corporate monsters. No wonder Sandberg, one of the school’s most prominent graduates, lacks a functioning moral compass. | Continue reading


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Out of Africa (2007)

Somewhere between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, Africa saved Homo sapiens from extinction. Charting the DNA shared by more than six billion people, a population geneticist—and director of the Genographic Project—suggests what humanity "owes" its first home. | Continue reading


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Mark Zuckerberg Has Never Cared About Your Privacy, and He’s Not Going to Change

From Facebook’s earliest days, Zuckerberg has followed the same pattern: take two steps forward, only to be pushed one step backward and land exactly where he wanted to be. | Continue reading


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At Facebook, Employee Morale and Stock Price Both Take a Plunge

After a particularly damning investigation exposed the dirty methods allegedly employed by Facebook’s top brass, employees are up in arms. | Continue reading


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An Oral History of Laurel Canyon, the 60s and 70s Music Mecca (2015)

They made music together, took drugs, and slept together. But none of the legends of Laurel Canyon, including Joni Mitchell and David Crosby, remember it the same way. | Continue reading


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Pope vs. Pope: How Francis and Benedict’s Conflict Could Split Catholic Church

When he retired, the ultra-conservative Pope Benedict XVI was expected to disappear from view, clearing the way for his liberal successor, Francis, to clean house in the notoriously corrupt Vatican. Instead, he stayed, setting the stage for a de-stabilizing brawl over morality, t … | Continue reading


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Inside Bill Browder’s War Against Putin

In a series of revealing new interviews, Putin’s public enemy No. 1 offers scintillating details about his investigation into Russian financial malfeasance, running for his life, and the Helsinki fallout. | Continue reading


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The Man Who Would Be King

As the Prince of Wales turns 70, James Reginato hops on a royal flight to catch up with the longest-waiting heir apparent in history. | Continue reading


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“The president is very depressed,” says one person close to Trump’s son. He finally got rid of Jeff Sessions—but his life is about to get much harder. | Continue reading


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How La La Land Pulled Off That Stunning Highway Dance Sequence (2017)

Choreographer Mandy Moore gives a detailed breakdown of “Another Day of Sun,” from “sassy step-backs” to hidden cuts. | Continue reading


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Michael Cohen Says Trump Repeatedly Used Racist Language Before His Presidency

As he awaits sentencing, Trump’s former lawyer says that he wants to clear his conscience and warn voters about what he sees as the president’s true nature in advance of the midterm elections. | Continue reading


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"It's Our Job to Call Them Out": Inside the Trump Gold Rush at CNN

Amid terrorist threats and vindictive tweets, the programming executive who taught the president all about reality TV continues to transform CNN into a 24/7 platform for our national psychosis. | Continue reading


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The Facebook exodus is becoming an epidemic

The departure of another top Facebook executive raises eyebrows in Silicon Valley: what the hell is happening at Facebook? | Continue reading


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Palantir, Peter Thiel’s All-Seeing Eye, Looks to a $41B I.P.O

Going public could more than double Thiel’s net worth—and prove that, even in Palo Alto, a close relationship with the Trump administration can pay off. | Continue reading


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Warren’s maneuver stands as a warning sign for other presidential contenders. Getting into the mud pit with Trump has revealed itself as a sucker’s game. Like a scientist trying to argue with a climate-change denier, you’ll just end up drowning in a tide of bad faith. | Continue reading


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Tech’s Favorite Saudi Despot May Have Finally Crossed the Line

A handful of tech leaders have distanced themselves from the Saudi government’s Neom project, but others like Travis Kalanick, Sam Altman, and Marc Andreessen are staying mum. | Continue reading


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What Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden Learned from Uber and the Ride-Hailing Wars

At Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit on Tuesday, the Bird C.E.O. broke down how his company works with regulators—and why he doesn’t regret passing up a huge offer from Uber. | Continue reading


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The Amazing 30-Year Odyssey of a Counterfeit Saudi Prince

Investors all over the world fell for the schemes of the man who called himself Khalid bin al-Saud. But the truth turned out to be more incredible than the lie. | Continue reading


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“The strategy was to try and do something really big,” says a source briefed on Trump’s thinking. Meanwhile, Trump allies are privately imploring him to cut Kavanaugh loose to save Republicans’ electoral chances in the midterms. | Continue reading


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The McElroy Brothers Will Be in Trolls 2

Podcasters (and brothers) Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy made it their mission last year to land roles in the upcoming Trolls sequel. Now, after a bizarre journey and a lot of edibles, they’ve succeeded—“if we don’t f--k it up.” | Continue reading


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“we're f--ked”: there is only one antidote to silicon valley's ills - engineers

Inside companies like Facebook, some employees are beginning to wonder whether sacrificing principles for a paycheck is really worth the risk. | Continue reading


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Theranos is finally closing its doors for good

Running out of money, squeezed by indictments and lawsuits, and devoid of investors, Theranos is finally closing its doors for good. | Continue reading


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In companies like Facebook, employees weigh principles against a paycheck

Inside companies like Facebook, some employees are beginning to wonder whether sacrificing principles for a paycheck is really worth the risk. | Continue reading


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50 Movies to Stream on Labor Day, Beyond Just Norma Rae

Here’s a definitive list of streamable movies—new and old, fiction and documentary, from the U.S. and abroad, in almost every genre we could think of—to keep you occupied this Labor Day weekend. | Continue reading


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Leave it to baby boomers to show you how it’s done. | Continue reading


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The original city magazine has managed to preserve and augment its DNA across multiple media eras. But the current climate may be the most challenging yet. | Continue reading


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White House counsel Don McGahn’s interviews with Mueller have rattled Trump to his core. “Total meltdown,” one outside adviser said of his mood, while a Republican ally described him as “extremely frustrated.” | Continue reading


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Remembering Anthony Bourdain as Only His Fixers Could

The local experts who guided Anthony Bourdain in Vietnam, Peru, Japan, and beyond had a view of the larger-than-life figure that few were privy to. | Continue reading


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With Felix Salmon, Axios Continues Its Push to Commandeer the Bloomberg Set

Axios is hiring Felix Salmon and Courtenay Brown to spearhead its foray into coverage of the public markets. | Continue reading


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It’s Amazon’s Swamp Now

The deal for an obscure $10 billion Pentagon contract suggests the extent to which Bezos is gobbling up the Swamp—without the guy in the White House even batting an eye. | Continue reading


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Gig-economy companies like Uber and Instacart are on the verge of overtaking the traditional economy. And the only people who understand the threat are the ones enabling it. | Continue reading


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“What Have We Done?”: Silicon Valley Engineers Fear They've Created a Monster

Gig-economy companies like Uber and Instacart are on the verge of overtaking the traditional economy. And the only people who understand the threat are the ones enabling it. | Continue reading


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