How to Dispute Surprise Medical Bills
After receiving a $21,500 doctor’s bill for a mere 10 stitches, I researched bad medical billing. Here’s how to fight it.
Muted Tones Spoke Loud and Clear
This week, a calm, even-toned conversation between two carefully dressed Republican women, Cassidy Hutchinson and Representative Liz Cheney, created one of the most explosive and riveting television events of the decade. Americans were captivated listening to the testimony about President Donald J. Trump’s behavior on Jan. 6. But we were captivated visually, too, by the…
Does Plan B Have a Weight Limit?
Researchers have looked into why and how weight influences emergency contraception but have come up against several unknowns. Here’s what we know.
A Party Crawl With Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova
“I’m a super-introvert,” said Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the founding members of Pussy Riot, as the elevator zoomed to the Rainbow Room on the 65th floor of Rockefeller Center, where the NFT Now gala was in full swing on June 21. “But it’s a job. As an activist, you have to do it,” she said…
Weekly Health Quiz: Ectopic Pregnancy, Heart Health and Toddler Tantrums
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
These Iconic ’90s Sunglasses Are Back for Summer
Turns out, you don’t have to follow fashion trends or be well-versed in sartorial history to see that ’90s style is influencing today’s looks in a big way. From slouchy denim and spaghetti straps to bucket hats and minimalist sunglasses, everything we loved about the decade’s effortlessly chic attitude is back—and all over our social…
‘Figures of Speech’ Shares Virgil Abloh’s Wide-Angled Vision
Social Sculpture: © Alaska Alaska, all others: © Gymnastics Art Institute; Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. If you ask Antwaun Sargent, walking into Virgil Abloh’s studio was like taking a trip into the many nautilus shell chambers of the late designer’s multi-disciplinary brain. “Takashi Murakami was…
Recipes Etched on Gravestone for All Eternity
At his home in Washington, D.C., Charlie McBride often bakes his mother’s recipe for peach cobbler. As he pours the topping over the fruit, he remembers how his mother, aunts and grandmother sat under a tree in Louisiana, cackling at one another’s stories as they peeled peaches to can for the winter. Mr. McBride loved…
Overlooked No More: Klaus Nomi, Singer With an Otherworldly Persona
Klaus Sperber was born on Jan. 24, 1944, in Immenstadt, a town in what was then West Germany. He was raised by his mother, Bettina, who worked odd jobs. A fling with a soldier, whom Klaus never met, resulted in his birth. When he was a child, he and his mother moved to the city…
On the Sonoma Coast, Fog, Wind and Exceptional Wine
ANNAPOLIS, Calif. — At Peay Vineyards, 53 acres of vines on a ridge near this tiny town just 3.5 miles from the Pacific Ocean, the fog generally burns off by around 9 a.m. and the air begins to warm up, at least for a little while. By midday, a breeze starts to blow, ruffling the…