Is It Safe to Travel? Can I Still See My Family on Christmas?
Omicron has cast a shadow over holiday plans.
C.D.C. Says Unvaccinated Students Exposed to Virus Can ‘Test and Stay’
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday that unvaccinated students exposed to the coronavirus can remain in school, as long as they are tested for the virus twice in the week after and both tests come back negative. The new guidance, known as the “test-to-stay” protocol, could ease the burden…
What to Know: Emotional Intelligence
A handy primer on “emotional intelligence.”
London Faces a Dimming Holiday Travel Season
“I’m seriously thinking about whether there is a future I can really rely on in tourism,” she said. Mr. Roca of Essentialist said about 20 to 25 percent of his company’s travelers who had booked trips to London decided to cancel and reroute to other destinations. Virtuoso, the large network of luxury travel advisers, is…
Can We Talk About Ugly Christmas Sweaters?
Should we participate in the ugly Christmas sweater phenomenon? And why do people even call them “ugly”? When I was growing up in the South, there were just people who wore festive Christmas sweaters and those who didn’t. Now they are like a trend to monetize and then discard. What happened? — Kristen, Charleston, S.C.…
How Ghislaine Maxwell’s Socialite Status Helped Jeffrey Epstein
There are two kinds of socialites, as Dr. Andrew Solomon, a psychologist and the author of “Far From the Tree,” suggests: “Socialites who are to the manner born, whose function is to have connections made with them. And there are those who earn their place, by constantly bringing together people, and then bask in the…
How to Eat Oysters
On a recent early evening at Maison Premiere, an oyster bar in Brooklyn, I sampled five types of East Coast oysters, perched on a platter of crushed ice like briny gems. As I slurped each one, I noticed their individual charms: the minerality of the Moonstone, the fresh softness of the Onset, Colville Bay’s deep…
Love Letter: An Unspoken Gesture of Love
Ross Showalter, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, who is deaf, spent the last nine years disappointed by suitors who promised to learn sign language but never followed through. That all changed when he met Will, a man that not only made learning sign language a priority, but also helped Mr. Showalter discover…
The C.D.C. recommends that other vaccines be preferred over J.&J.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Thursday that Covid vaccines other than Johnson & Johnson’s should be preferred, after its advisers cited increasing evidence that the company’s shots can trigger a rare blood clotting disorder now linked to dozens of cases and at least nine deaths in the United States in the…
Work Advice on Avoiding Early Meetings and Bad Bosses
In terms of your interpersonal issues with Black women: You’re going to have to do the work of figuring out why you’ve had contentious relationships with the people you’ve worked with and what you can do to avoid that in the future. It will require rigorous self-reflection and being mindful of how you perceive and…