The 6-Day Energy Challenge
Try these simple tips for a more invigorated 2024.
The Energy Challenge: How to Stay Motivated in 2024
Today, we’ll share a few final tips to keep you motivated in 2024.
Back to (Better) Basics
January is a great time for basics. After the excess and glamour of the holiday season (read: prime rib roast and rainbow rave cookies), the simplest no-fuss recipes can feel downright refreshing. Which is why we’re particularly excited to share Sohla El-Waylly’s recipe for roasted salmon, the sort of basic recipe you can turn to…
The Income Gap Jeopardizing Retirement for Millions
Monique Louvigny, an event coordinator in the San Francisco Bay Area, economizes where she can. She drives a 10-year-old Prius, brings a thermos of coffee to work instead of patronizing a place with baristas, and takes advantage of a drive-through food pantry once a month. Laid off at 57, “I kind of reinvented myself,” she…
Pop-Tarts and Duke’s Mayo Dominate College Bowl Season
After winning the Pop-Tarts Bowl on Dec. 28 in Orlando, Fla., Kansas State’s football team gathered on the field around a garage-size toaster that was protected by a pair of mall cops wearing “Snack Security” shirts. An unusual chant erupted — “Toast that mascot! Toast that mascot!” — as Strawberry, a giant Pop-Tart with limbs,…
Extra-Long Weddings Cakes Are Popping Up at Receptions
After months of brainstorming how to have the most delicious wedding cake possible, Rachel Karten and Roxanne Rosensteel, a pastry chef based in Santa Barbara, Calif., concluded that only one kind of wedding cake could fit the bill: a big sheet cake. The original plan was to have four of them, but when Ms. Karten,…
Fact-Checking Trump and Others’ Sparring Over Social Security and Medicare
Top contenders for the 2024 presidential election in recent weeks have accused each other of jeopardizing Social Security and Medicare, key entitlement programs for seniors. The future of the programs has been fodder for endless political debate — and distortions — because of the long-term financial challenges they face. Social Security’s main trust fund is…