After a Breakup, A Bipartisan Union

Caroline Marie Darmody first noticed Jared Joseph Jones during a February 2016 orientation session for an upcoming staff delegation trip to India. At the time, both worked as legislative assistants in Washington, but on different sides of the aisle: Mr. Jones for Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Ms. Darmody for Democratic…

She Had Three Nonnegotiables. He Had One.

Amanda Kay Cook was tired of relationships that went nowhere. So, in October 2020, she drew up three nonnegotiables and rounded up 30 matches — “like on ‘The Bachelorette,’” said Ms. Cook, 29 — mainly from the dating apps Tinder, Hinge and Bumble, and a few from friends. She rattled off her three nonnegotiables —…

Freeze Your Tofu

To open my freezer door is to ask for trouble. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to catch the bag of frozen dumplings or compost scraps as it tumbles from the precarious perch atop a lumpy bag of ice. If you’re not so lucky, the batch of 50/50 martinis you made for the party will…