12.02.2023

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Graydon Carter here ...

How Israel's female soldiers predicted the attacks; our Women's Gift Guide; how Beckham got Messi; and more.
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From the Gaza Border

In the weeks before Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped hundreds more, the I.D.F.'s largely female border guards sounded the alarm. Why didn't their all-male commanders listen?

From Our AIR SUPPLY Shop

Our Women's Gift Guide is here! Explore our cherry-picked selection for the woman who has everything, with recommendations from Lauren Hutton and Ina Garten

From Florida

How did soccer legend David Beckham attract the even bigger soccer legend Lionel Messi to play for his fledgling Inter Miami team? As it turns out, by promising more than just money

From London

Harry and Meghan's biographer of choice has released his latest assault on the royals, in which he concludes—news flash!—that H & M are wonderful and everyone else in the family is horrid

From New York

Now 100 years old, Alice Mason was once the city's real-estate agent to the elite, counting Henry Kissinger and Marilyn Monroe as friends. But all the while, she was hiding a major secret

From Los Angeles

Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger marvels at the rise of sports agent Rich Paul, who went from selling drugs on the street to representing LeBron James and—rumor has it—marrying Adele

From Graceland

History—and Baz Luhrmann's recent biopic—has cast Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's larger-than-life manager, as a dyed-in-the-wool scoundrel. Actually, he was the opposite

From the High Seas

The U.S. Justice Department's Task Force KleptoCapture was created to seize luxury super-yachts owned by Russian oligarchs and give the proceeds to Ukraine. It's not easy

From Sunday School

A new book by Tim Alberta, the Atlantic writer and son of a Presbyterian minister, chronicles the terrifying rise of America's evangelical right. Matthew Teague reviews

From the Darkroom

For more than 50 years, Larry Fink turned journalistic photography into high art

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