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DESPERATION
He became the archetypal power-hungry media mogul by building a newspaper empire. Now all the papers are in free fall and his best last hope is Fox News.
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation; and the author of Wide-Body: The Triumph of the 747 (Morrow).
COMPETITIVE
While it has the altruistic reason of airline safety and the commercial reason of lower air traffic, there’s a third, nationalistic reason Beijing is slow-walking Boeing's return.
SPECIAL REPORT
U.S. airlines are ready to put the jets back in the air. Europe’s regulator (and Sully Sullenberger) wants more fixes. And the FAA is still trying to gag whistleblowers.
IN FOCUS
The photographer David Bailey talks about sex, the 1960s, and how—while photographing some of the most beautiful women in the world—they became “the whole center of the universe.”
WHEELS UP, JUST
A scathing new Senate report gives a scary picture of how the airline forces its pilots to the limits of safety and cuts corners on safety.
PANDEMIC BE DAMNED
In the middle of a pandemic that’s nearly wiped out international air travel, it’s hard to believe but the go-faster crowd are likely to get their dream—another Concorde.
POWER PLAY
“The Crown” Season 4 brings to vivid life the collision of personalities and politics that shaped the relationship between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen. It’s mostly all true.
Mission of the Century
Beyond actually having vaccines that work we’ll need the airlines to pull off a moonshot moment. Here’s a reality check.
PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED
It took years, but his newspaper finally got justice for the victims of a drug that maimed hundreds of babies.
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CONVENIENT CARNAGE
The virus is achieving what Republicans have strived to do for decades: slashing the future burden of Medicare and Social Security.
