While similar legislation regarding due diligence is being debated in the European Union, and while Germany, France, Britain and Australia have laws requiring due diligence when it comes to human rights and slavery, there is no general legislation in any country governing the greater social and environmental actions of the fashion industry and mandating change.…
The first week of January is often marked by reflection and resolutions. But at a time when time itself seems broken, looking back and planning ahead can feel like impossible feats. What happens this year is anyone’s guess right now. So we decided to give it a shot. Will 2022 be better than 2021? For…
Un creciente movimiento de moderación aprovecha las estrategias de la meditación para reducir el consumo de alcohol.
“Like this,” he said, pointing at the mountains, the trees, the lake as blue as his eyes. Nearly a decade later, we came close to that life when we moved to Flagstaff, Ariz., and I got a teaching job at Northern Arizona University. Here we have trees and mountains. We have a lake but it’s…
Michael Porten had been sleeping on a piece of foam inside a Savannah, Ga., parking garage when Trish Andersen invited him to crash in the room at a local hotel that she was sharing with her ex-boyfriend. Mr. Porten, of Savannah, was not down on his luck, just slightly maniacal about proximity to his job…
Darrick Lo and Adrienne Lei each felt something special about the other when they met in 2015 — and again in 2017. “I rarely go up to a random individual and try to get to know them better,” Mr. Lo said. But when he first saw Ms. Lei at the Frick Collection in New York…
On a Saturday in June 2018, Vaibhavi Kamat, then a rising senior at North Carolina State, took a seat at a busy table at Darbar Indian Cuisine, a restaurant in Manhattan. Soon, she was talking to Jaideep Rao, then a rising senior at the University of Mississippi. Ms. Kamat and Mr. Rao had each traveled…
The first time Elizabeth Maia Wexler met Eric Ryan Hollenberg, she didn’t see the bottom half of his face. The pair initially connected on the dating app Bumble in March 2020. They had been sporadically messaging for months when, that June, they realized that they both happened to be vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts,…
To get the most out of 2022, try choosing a word that can help you make thoughtful decisions and nudge you toward positive change.
Now, with the Omicron variant fueling an enormous new surge, they wrote, the United States must avoid becoming stuck in “a perpetual state of emergency.” The first step, they wrote, is recognizing that the coronavirus is one of several respiratory viruses circulating, and developing policies to address all of them together. To be better prepared…