For weeks, the World Health Organization resisted declaring the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, fearing that doing so would incite panic across the globe. But facing the cameras on Wednesday, the agency’s director general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, did just that, asking for global unity to “change the course of this pandemic.” It was a symbolic…
L Brands, the owner of Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, said on Thursday that Sarah Nash would be its new chair, replacing Leslie H. Wexner, the retail mogul who founded and ran the company for decades before coming under intense scrutiny for his ties to the sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Ms. Nash, the…
Lady Gaga has never shied away from a daring style moment. Each phase of her career has signaled a new look. From her days wearing meat dresses at awards shows to her pink cowboy hat for Joanne and every sequin in between, she’s an expert at leaving everyone guessing with her fearless sartorial choices. In…
Across Europe on Thursday, Americans scrambled to make sense of conflicting messages from Washington about if and when they would be allowed to return to the United States. They awoke to the news that President Trump had announced a 30-day suspension of most travel from Europe in a bid to stem the spread of the…
This article is part of our latest special report on Design, which is about getting personal with customization. The Brooklyn Navy Yard once echoed with the sounds of hammering and welding as workers built battleships and aircraft carriers on the 300-acre campus bordering the East River. Today, the Navy and its single-minded mission are long…
As the spread of the coronavirus leads to more school closings, many parents are finding themselves faced with the prospect of what amounts to home-schooling their children. Ideally, teachers will provide lessons, whether online or on paper, to help meet children’s academic needs, but school also fills physical and social needs. Answering the following questions…
“Alarming levels of inaction.” That is what the World Health Organization said Wednesday about the global response to coronavirus. It is a familiar refrain to anyone who works on climate change, and it is why global efforts to slow down warming offer a cautionary tale for the effort to slow down the pandemic. “Both demand…
This article is part of our latest special report on Design, which is about getting personal with customization. My light-switch plates, which had long been banal, now make me feel empowered. In the last few weeks, I have commissioned half a dozen of them in custom shapes, colors and patterns. It turns out that nearly…
This month we’re going to try something different. Ordinarily for Wine School, I select a particular sort of wine and recommend a few bottles to drink. Instead, I’m going to assign a food, roast chicken. Your job is pick the wines to drink with it. More specifically, choose one, two or three different wines to…
The first question many people will ask about a wine is, “What does it taste like?” Rarely does anybody ask, “How does it feel?” Yet body, density, weight and texture, often combined in the inelegant term ”mouthfeel,” are essential parts of the wine-drinking experience, though often ignored in discussions about it. I have long been…