There are so many countries on this earth with fascinating drinking cultures, spanning from the New World vineyards of South America to the whisky and sake culture of Japan. And we celebrate them all with open minds and a glass-half-full mentality (though, would you fill it to the brim, please?). But there are few drinking cultures that seep into our daily lives more than those of Europe. After all, wine was invented there, beer was perfected there, and the leisurely mentality of having a drink and a snack to end the workday and usher in the evening is a ritual we’ll forever try to emulate.

To celebrate the incredible drinking cultures of Europe, we dove deep into 10 different countries to get to know a little more about what’s in their glasses and how it got there in the first place. We spoke with experts, asked top bars for cocktail recipes and each correspondent personally imbibed in the country they wrote about to bring some firsthand experience and color to the articles. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we loved writing them. Cheers! Santé! Prost!

Last week, we asked you about your fruity cocktail preferences. About 49% of you would go for a fruity cocktail, while 51% of you said you'd go for something else.

No One Exposes Elon Musk’s Lies Like Jason Fenske

When you’re the richest person in the world, people can’t help but assume you’re a genius. If you’re worth $270 billion, as Elon Musk is according to the Forbes real-time billionaires list, you must be one of the smartest people on the planet, right?

Well, that’s how people tend to treat Musk, whether we’re talking about the press or your average American. He’s often referred to as a real-life “Tony Stark,” the fictional billionaire brainiac better known as Iron Man. And Musk’s astonishing achievements in electric vehicles and spacecraft — where his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, have succeeded where others have failed — have made it easier for people to believe his misleading claims, conspiracy theories and outright lies in all fields, even those where he has no expertise, like election integrity, immigration and epidemiology. That’s more true today than ever, as his self-made image as an all-knowing tycoon is propped up by his total control of Twitter, which he’s renamed X.

So when Elon Musk does lie, whether it’s about one of Tesla’s electric cars or about the Democratic party bringing in people to vote illegally, most people have a hard time calling him out on it. Not Jason Fenske.

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The Running Life of Nev Schulman

On a muggy Monday morning in East Hampton this past August, Nev Schulman ran six miles in 43 minutes. Racing along Abrahams Path, a shaded road that winds past golf courses and squash stands, Schulman split sub-6:30 for his third, fourth and fifth miles. That pace would be impressive for a long-distance runner at any age; for a man one month removed from 40, it telegraphed some serious fitness.

Training was going well. Schulman is based in Brooklyn, and he’d come out to Long Island with his wife and three kids to stay at his dad’s house for the rest of an oppressively hot summer. Later that afternoon, Schulman boarded his e-bike and set off to pick up his son from day camp. Coming up on traffic near Town Pond, navigating the end of a shoulder into a right turn, Schulman ran out of pavement.

“I’m not sure exactly what happened, ’cause I don’t remember,” Schulman told us this week. “But somehow, traffic didn’t move how I thought it would, and I ended up getting into an accident where I flew over my handlebars and hit the back of a work truck."