It’s Covid Season: What to Know About Risks, Testing and Treatment
A primer on how to minimize your risk and know when you’re in the clear after an exposure.
‘Bottoms,’ ‘The Bear’ and ‘Succession’: The Rise of Fan Edits
By day, Emily McLaughlin pours pumpkin spice lattes as a Starbucks barista. By night, she roams the internet as a self-described “fictional gay-people enthusiast,” tirelessly posting about and promoting her favorite queer movies and television shows. So it was inevitable that “Bottoms,” a bawdy comedy about lesbian high school outcasts who start a fight club,…
In Vietnam, You Can Take a Cable Car to the Colosseum
We are inside a glass box of a gondola, part of the longest passenger cable car in the world, flying silently along on a nearly five-mile ride, and some 50 stories above a sapphire sea just off the coast of Phu Quoc Island in southern Vietnam. On this bright March afternoon, hundreds of colorful wooden…
If You Plant Milkweed, They Will Come. (And Not Just the Butterflies.)
To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a thousand nodding pink flower heads — you would not imagine that anything could ever stand in the way of the genus Asclepias. Yes, common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), the most widespread milkweed east of the Rocky Mountains, can colonize disturbed sites and…
Gifts for Gardeners? Gardenheir Has Them in Spades
Part of that business, Mr. Crawford said, would be to offer a curated mix of items considered both beautiful and the best of their kind. “And if it didn’t exist, we’d try to make it,” he said. When Gardenheir’s website debuted, in September 2021, it sold the clogs and some shirts and hats from its…
R.S.V. Shot for Infants Is in Short Supply: What to Know
Health officials have revised their recommendations on which children should receive the new drug.
Who Invited Ivanka?
Over the weekend, something happened to Ivanka Trump that hasn’t occurred since before her father was elected president: Celebrities were willing to be seen with her. On Friday night, Ms. Trump, an adviser in former President Donald J. Trump’s White House, attended Kim Kardashian’s 43rd birthday party at Funke Restaurant in Beverly Hills, Calif., where…
Fall Is on the Menu for Australia’s State Dinner. The B-52s Are Not.
The fourth state dinner hosted by the Biden administration, to honor Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia, will feature a menu of fall vegetables, a backdrop of florals and a selection of instrumental music performed by military bands. “Nurturing our partnerships and relationships with our allies is critically important, especially in these tumultuous times,”…
Why Health Care Workers Are Burning Out
The Toll: Nearly five days of poor mental health a month. Federal researchers tracked self-reported mental health symptoms among more than a thousand adult workers in 2018 and 2022, including 226 health care workers in 2018 and 325 in 2022. Compared with other groups surveyed, health care workers reported a substantial jump in poor mental…
What to Know About Dengue Fever as Cases Spread to New Places
Dengue, the excruciating mosquito-borne disease, is surging throughout the world and coming to places that had never had it. California just confirmed a rare U.S. case.