A 40-year-old pregnant woman who fears catching measles on the New York City subway walks eight miles round trip from her home in Brooklyn to her job in Manhattan. Two New Jersey parents who don’t agree about vaccines and are now getting divorced have asked a judge to make a ruling on if their children…
AMSTERDAM — Edibles is the word most often used for foods that make marijuana and other hallucinogens go down easy. Think pot brownies and space cakes — not exactly famous for pleasing the palate. But for two Amsterdam-based chefs, it was high time to go beyond simply edible, and to use mind-altering ingredients to create…
Hi and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. Have you seen our special climate change issue? I’m so proud of it, especially this Q. and A., which answers all the questions we hear about how to cook, shop and eat in our changing world. There are some real revelations in there. For starters, cheese has higher…
Courtesy Women’s Hurricane XLT2 Outdoor Voices outdoorvoices.com $85.00 When Birkenstocks were called chic by Eva Chen back in 2014, the dark ages of constrictive heels ended and the Ugly Shoe Era began. The acceptance of comfort footwear is arguably the best thing to happen to women since we started wearing pants, and we will forever…
You’re reading In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let me know what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. “How much is a little girl worth?” — Rachael Denhollander, the first former gymnast to go public about abuse by Larry Nassar Early last year, Larry Nassar,…
Statin drugs like Lipitor and Crestor significantly reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease, rigorous studies have shown. But a “real-world” analysis published in Heart suggests that in practice about half of patients do not benefit from them. British researchers studied 165,411 patients free of cardiovascular disease who started statin therapy between 1990 and 2016. They…
There are so many reasons to adore shakshuka, but that savory gush of runny egg yolk is high on the list. That dish, a North African staple, involves poaching eggs in a quickly simmered, heavily spiced tomato-pepper sauce. This recipe retains shakshuka’s eggy allure, but instead of being red, spicy and tangy, it’s green, mellow…
Carbon Beach is a beguiling and exclusive crescent of sand along the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, famous — infamous might be a better word — for the long and mostly losing battle conducted by its wealthy homeowners to keep the public off this stunning mile of coastline. It is also known as Billionaire’s Beach, a…
Image The 2020 Chanel cruise collection.CreditIan Langsdon/EPA, via Shutterstock PARIS — Chanel is moving forward. Or at least trying to. How else to view the fact that for the first Chanel cruise show since the death in February of Karl Lagerfeld, its longtime designer, the house had reimagined a Parisian railway station? “You have to…
LONDON — Researchers seeking evidence of chemical “micropollution” in five rural English rivers have found pesticides in many of the freshwater shrimp they tested. And cocaine in all of them. The presence of the illegal drug was unexpected because the sites where the researchers gathered their samples, in the eastern coastal county of Suffolk, were…