The fashion designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla bought her first pair of senior corduroy pants from a vintage-clothing seller in 2013 when she was a senior at the New School. The pants style had by then been around for more than a century. Senior cords seem to have first appeared at Purdue University in Indiana…
“Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that the heart, a.k.a. the most widely recognized symbol of love, just so happens to be the organ that pumps blood across our bodies and keeps things viable,” Gina Cherelus writes in her Third Wheel column this week, “I Love You, Here’s Some Blood.”
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will step down from her position on June 30, she announced on Friday, capping a tumultuous tenure at the nation’s leading public health agency as it struggled to rein in the Covid-19 pandemic, the greatest threat to American well-being in decades. Her…
Experts explain what to do if you feel threatened and how to offer help if the situation calls for it.
There is a new wrinkle in the ongoing tussle between Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and the Walt Disney Company. On Friday, Mr. DeSantis signed a bill into law giving a board that oversees government services at Disney World the ability to void development agreements that had already been approved for the resort. At least…
The Justice Department said it had reached an interim agreement with the health departments of Alabama and one of its rural counties over practices found to discriminate against generations of Black residents. Under the agreement announced Thursday, the Alabama Department of Public Health and the Lowndes County Health Department said they would improve wastewater infrastructure,…
Certain foods are too powerful to stay in the past. Buljol, named for the contorted patois of the French words brulé (burned) and gueule (mouth), is a dish of dried salted cod, and has followed my family through generations, well beyond my mother’s childhood in 1950s Trinidad. Every Friday night, my maternal grandmother, Elaine Cadet,…
I love a cooking shortcut, especially when it delivers tremendous flavor. Ingredients like Italian sausage, kimchi and feta cheese are immediate dish boosters, doing much of the heavy lifting for you. I’m also happy to lean on packaged sliced or chopped vegetables at the end of the busy day. (I can’t remember who told me…
Before you ask, no, I don’t have any Bluesky invite codes. I’m sorry. Or perhaps you have no idea what I’m talking about. That’s cool, I got you: Bluesky is a buzzy social media platform funded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey that is being hailed by some as a potential alternative to the troubled bird…
Why It Matters: Covid still claims more than 1,000 lives weekly Even in a season that usually brings a lull in respiratory illnesses, and even with powerful vaccines available, the coronavirus is infecting many Americans and killing at least 1,000 people each week. The data the C.D.C. still plans to collect will not provide enough…