The National Labor Relations Board is seeking to order Starbucks to recognize a union at a Buffalo-area store where the union lost an initial vote last year. The move is part of a larger effort by the board to scrutinize the coffee chain’s response to a nationwide union campaign. In an amended complaint against the…
The rare monkeypox virus, usually confined mostly to Central and West Africa, has spread in unusual ways this year, and among populations that have not been vulnerable in the past. But while the transmissions have created some alarm among officials and infectious disease experts, and while a Covid-weary world is on high alert for new…
Just weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began a comprehensive internal review with an eye toward restructuring, the agency’s director announced on Friday that the team that coordinated the national response to the Covid-19 pandemic would return some of its functions to other departments. But the so-called Incident Management Structure, initially brought…
I often hear about avoiding fast fashion because it’s better for the planet, in part because it is highly disposable and people cycle it through to the landfill too quickly. But can I feel just a little less guilty about my fast fashion if I hold on to my clothes until they wear out? I’m…
Leading by Example In the past six months, my organization approved the optional inclusion of pronouns in email signatures. I learned that one of my team members uses nonbinary pronouns. In my written communication and conversation about that team member, I now use those pronouns, but I notice that no one else has made the…
“Trying to be a girl for me felt like gathering sand in my hands: there, tangible, but not something I was allowed to keep,” August Singer, who is transmasculine, writes in this week’s Modern Love essay. “My sister knew about my gender first because I told her everything first.” “My mother was the last to…
The desire to wash your hair less often is natural for those who are tired of doing it every day or who want to keep its color longer. Switch to sulfate-free shampoos For dry scalp and colored hair, the sulfate-free shampoo will be salvation: it does not wash out the beneficial substances that contribute to…
There are very few people in this world who can make tofu as exciting a topic as Samin Nosrat. I felt that keenly this week when I got to chat about vegetarian cooking with Samin and Tejal Rao, our California restaurant critic and the author of The Veggie newsletter, at a New York Times Cooking…
Most of the time, canned clams are a fallback measure, something to reach for when you’re craving spaghetti alle vongole or a steaming bowl of chowder but fresh bivalves are just not in the cards. Not so for clam dip, which was, quite specifically, made for canned clams. The recipe’s heyday was in the 1950s,…
The glitch means that families end up paying higher and less affordable premiums for the job-based health insurance — or skipping coverage altogether. About 90 percent of people affected by the glitch are buying coverage deemed unaffordable, according to the Urban Institute’s analysis. In other words, while most people affected by the glitch enroll in…