Love Letter: Three Dealbreakers

After Sherilyn Siy’s third quasi date with a man named Charles, she wrote him an email. In it, she outlined three reasons her parents would never approve of him: “You are not Chinese. You are 16 years older than me. You have a daughter out of wedlock.” Despite these three apparent dealbreakers, Ms. Siy found…

2022’s Top Restaurant Dishes

As you watch the plate being cleared, you think: That was so good. What made that so good? Why isn’t there just a little more? Months later, your mind still glances back. I need to get back there. In 2022, these were some of the dishes that did that for us. In reporting our annual…

A Rural Hospital’s Excruciating Choice: $3.2 Million a Year or Inpatient Care?

During Covid surges, Dr. Katie Camarata, the physician who cared for Ms. Wenrich, stayed up overnight with critically ill patients, calling hospital systems in surrounding states. All seven refused the transfers. Eventually, the Cascade staff created their own negative-pressure rooms so it could keep highly infectious patients in-house without infecting others. Providing inpatient care “comes…

Watch Designers Want to Make You Smile

“They all think it’s hilarious,” Mr. Getz said. “But they know that only I would wear this cheap, knockoff watch with my own face on it as a cartoon — and pretend to be proud of it.” Fun watches, after all, are rooted in self-expression. The Washington, D.C.-based watch collector Abduljabar Totonji bought his Joker…