A group that supports ethical non-monogamy sent an open letter to Meta on Thursday calling for Facebook to allow users to list more than one relationship status in their profiles. The letter, which was initiated by the Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Non-monogamy, or OPEN, said that Facebook’s current policy is “arbitrary” and “exclusionary.” Signees…
When the Australian pop star Troye Sivan sings the line, “Take a trip into my garden, I’ve got so much to show ya” in his 2018 summer bop “Bloom,” he probably isn’t referring to an icy Eden of corn, carrots and peas. But he should be. Buried inside freezers all over the United States today,…
Four or five times a week these days, some old friend will contact Louis Theroux and tell him, “My daughter keeps going around the house singing your rap,” or, “My wife was exercising to your rap in her Pilates class.” Passing by a primary school, Mr. Theroux has the feeling he is being watched, a…
I am in search of a perfect summer dress that can handle the heat waves I hear we should all start to expect. I want something that will be cool without being naked, adult without being stiff, and won’t overwhelm a normal-size frame. Any suggestions? — Charlene, Pacifico, Calif. Ever since Irwin Shaw crafted his…
A cartoonist fills in the blanks of her dad’s top secret career and invisible legacy.
In this week’s Modern Love essay, “A Texting Lifeline During a Difficult Time,” Tatiana Jackson-Saitz writes about the complexities of falling in love while losing her father to cancer. Ms. Jackson-Saitz just finished her second year at the University of Chicago. She is a finalist in our most recent Modern Love college essay contest.
Brandy Goodner first learned about Juneteenth when she was 14. Although she didn’t begin celebrating the holiday — a commemoration of the day in 1865 that enslaved people in Texas were told that they had been freed two years earlier — until she was an adult, Ms. Goodner now parties like she’s making up for…
Cara Condon was a dark horse heading into the 2022 Cheesemonger Invitational in Brooklyn last Sunday. Although she has been working in the field for more than a decade, she felt that her wrapping skills weren’t in the top tier, and worried that her cheese-and-beverage pairing wouldn’t be a hit. “I know it sounds absolutely…
WASHINGTON — Members of the World Trade Organization announced several agreements on Friday at the close of their first in-person ministerial conference in four years, pledging to rein in harmful government policies that have encouraged overfishing and relax some controls on intellectual property in an effort to make coronavirus vaccines more widely available. The agreements…
The usual path to homemade vegan ice cream is slicked with dairy-free milk — almond, coconut, cashew, hemp. But there’s another option that gives you an even richer, plusher result: oat creamer. With their inherent starchiness, oats can help thicken and stabilize frozen desserts, keeping ice crystals at bay. Many vegan ice cream recipes call…