Over the last decade, we’ve all become increasingly well-informed about where, how, and by whom our clothing is manufactured. Activist Aditi Mayer has been one of the voices bringing attention to those questions. She began examining the historical, social, and political injustices that bolster the estimated $1.7 trillion industry in the wake of 2013’s Rana…
Ten years after the Cronut, croissants are still taking on new shapes, sporting swirls and stripes and drawing crowds. When the baker Amadou Ly spotted the right moment to pull his croissant dough from the roller, it flowed like silk over his wooden counter. It had taken three days of precisely executed fermentation and lamination,…
GREENWOOD, Miss. — Since its opening in a converted wood-frame mansion 117 years ago, Greenwood Leflore Hospital had become a medical hub for this part of Mississippi’s fertile but impoverished Delta, with 208 beds, an intensive-care unit, a string of walk-in clinics and a modern brick-and-glass building. But on a recent weekday, it counted just…
Most windows need a little help from window coverings to manage light levels or provide privacy. But sometimes it’s just about making them look their best. Window coverings “absolutely add a finishing layer to a space,” said Augusta Hoffman, an interior designer in New York. “A room doesn’t feel finished until you add them.” Usually,…
Randi Schofield is the sole provider for an ailing father and, at the same time, for her own children — a situation now common among Americans in their 30s and 40s.
Here is a fun game to play: Say the words “shoulder pads” and ask people what springs to mind. Bad 1980s fashions? Margaret Thatcher? Joan Crawford? David Byrne in “Stop Making Sense”? Soon the answer may be: 2023. According to data from Tagwalk, the fashion search engine, there was an almost 50 percent increase in…
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina on Monday became the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, the latest sign of how Republican opposition to the health measure has weakened more than a decade after President Barack Obama signed it into law. Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, signed legislation expanding the state’s Medicaid…
Gladys Kessler, a federal judge who in a historic ruling in 2006 found that the tobacco industry had violated civil racketeering laws for decades by “repeatedly, and with enormous skill and sophistication” deceiving the public about the health hazards of smoking, died on March 16 in Washington. She was 85. The cause of death, in…
In the summer of 2022, the clothing designer Olivia Villanti passed seven weeks driving through France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia and Montenegro with her husband, Guillaume Guevara, an entrepreneur, and their young son. While on the trip, she would spend most weekends scavenging flea markets, picking out shirts with details like an elegant cutaway collar or…
TAIPEI, Taiwan — While growing up in Hong Kong, Cherry Tang accompanied her uncles to their family’s ancestral gravesite each spring as they lugged a whole roasted suckling pig up a subtropical hillside. The pig was placed in front of the tomb, alongside fruit and incense, and Ms. Tang helped relatives weed and clean as…