A Timeless Tomato Tart

This spring, as shoppers searched shelves for yeast and flour, heirloom tomatoes were just beginning their journey. Their seeds were buried and reliably took root. With water, sunlight and good soil, the plants bore fruit, offering a timely reminder to us all on the importance of nourishment and care. Heirloom tomatoes illustrate a connection to…

Live Coronavirus Cases Updates

Here’s what you need to know: ImageScreening a possible coronavirus patient at a drive-through testing site  in Los Angeles on Thursday.Credit…Bryan Denton for The New York Times The U.S. shatters its daily case record for the 11th time in a month. As clashes over face-covering mandates and school reopening plans intensified throughout the United States,…

Au Pairs, in an Altered America

In early March, Ana Flavia, 23, traveled from her hometown, Sorocaba, Brazil, to Oakland, Calif. She was there to be an au pair to two girls, ages 6 and 11, and get a taste of America from living with them and their parents, a Chinese mother and a German father. When Ms. Flavia agreed to…

Her ‘Bubbie’ Was Right After All

As a pediatric oncology nurse practitioner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rachel Glincher is used to bearing witness to heartache and healing. But that didn’t make it any easier when Michael Harris broke her heart in 2018. Ms. Glincher, 31, met Mr. Harris, 34, a strategic marketing director at Pfizer, on the dating app…

Changing Plans Without Advance Warning

Michael Braun, 37, is a national advance lead for the presidential campaign of Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee. In political parlance, he is known as an “advance man,” working with other members of Mr. Biden’s staff as well as Secret Service agents to scout locations and prepare campaign…