A Rediscovered Monet and a Returning Auction House Close a Three-Year Slump
Sotheby's reported its first pre-tax profit in years as a Monet unseen for a century led a Paris sale that ran 11 percent above the high estimate.
Anna Weber
Bureau: Berlin
Two Schools Said No Before Yale Said Yes to Linda McMahon's Education Roadmap
Education Secretary Linda McMahon spoke at Yale after two universities refused to host her, the same month the administration squeezed Harvard, Columbia, and UVA into submission.
Schedule F Has Reclassified Fifty Thousand Career Federal Workers and a House Republican Says It Is Just Getting Started
Roughly 50,000 career civil servants have been reclassified under Schedule F, and Representative Luna told Forbes the 'major purge' is 'just getting started.'
Pentagon's Fourth Ignored Ruling on Press Access Is Now an Impeachment Count
Two federal rulings ignored became an impeachment article this week — Pentagon press noncompliance is now simultaneously a judicial finding and a congressional charge.
Magyar Names DW and BBC as Benchmarks, and Von Der Leyen Endorses the Machine
Day three of the suspension has no legal instrument, a German broadcaster as its model, and an endorsement from the Commission president who condemned this tactic when Orban used it.
Rietberg Returns Eleven Bronzes and Cambridge Transfers 116 as Restitution Reaches Its Next Question
Zurich sent eleven back, Cambridge moved title on 116, Berlin scheduled a panel called Restitution and What Next — the next model does not yet exist.
PEN/Faulkner Crowns a Debut, and the Prizes Carry What Publishing Will Not
Three major awards in four weeks to debut and small-press fiction is not coincidence — it is the prize system doing work the trade market has abandoned.
Patrick Radden Keefe Uses One Teenager's Death to Audit London's Oligarch Economy
The third Keefe book in a row that turns one death into a structural audit — this time of the London property market Russian money bought.