Coronavirus Live Updates: As Toll Mounts, Lawmakers Look to Next Phase of Response

Here’s what you need to know: ImageLawmakers left the Capitol after voting on the coronavirus stimulus plan on Friday.Credit…Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times As the virus’s impact expands, Washington mulls more emergency measures. As the toll of the coronavirus continued to mount — overwhelming hospitals and sickening health care workers, spreading through jails, playing havoc…

The Best Matzo? It’s Homemade

Of all the delights of the Seder table — the tender brisket, the golden chicken soup flecked with dill, the wine-drenched charoset rich with apples — commercial, kosher-for-Passover matzo falls pretty low on the list. Made from only flour and water, the result is hard and bland — perfect as a base for matzo brei…

Stress Baking More Than Usual?

As the country shuts down city by city and families are being confined to their homes, one thing’s for sure: Americans are baking. “I came home from work last week one night, I had just anchored ‘All Things Considered,’ and I was feeling anxious and like everything is spinning out of control,” said Mary Louise…

The Quarantine Diaries

Before the end of life as we knew it, Ady, an 8-year-old who lives in the Bay Area of San Francisco, read a biography of Anne Frank. When she realized that she, too, was living through what would soon become history, Ady started keeping her own diary. In one early entry, she recorded that the…