Ron Jacobson recalled the moment when he knew he would marry Sarah Miller, whom he met through the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel in November 2017 in New York. “From the very start, I was able to be myself around her,” said Mr. Jacobson, 33, a founder and the chief executive of Rockerbox, an online…
Irene Fan Yuan came right out and told Colin Armand Evran that what he was wearing — an oversize, worn brown and orange argyle sweater, clunky black shoes and white bulky socks — was “hideous.” “I gave him feedback honestly during class,” said Ms. Yuan, referring to a popular interpersonal dynamics course, nicknamed “touchy-feely,” that…
Billy Pitman, a relative newcomer to online dating, posted a picture of himself on his Hinge profile in 2017 that showed him running the most recent Boston Marathon. This caught the attention of Jessica Jeffrey, who is also a runner. The two didn’t spend much time chatting online before agreeing to meet at a place…
Thais Prazeres de Almeida was dating someone else when she and Scott Nielson met at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints both attended in São Paulo, Brazil, but he didn’t see that as an obstacle. They went out a few times, on friend dates, as he was relatively new to the city —…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Last Sunday, the United States reported its 10 millionth case of the coronavirus, with the last million added in the preceding 10 days. Covid-19 hospitalizations hit a new high this week, and new daily cases…
Come January, there may be many more people like Mary Prochaska. Ms. Prochaska, 73, a retired social worker in Chapel Hill, N.C., has advanced chronic kidney disease and relies on dialysis to filter waste from her blood while she awaits a kidney transplant, her second. But she no longer visits a dialysis center three times…
ImageA mobile testing station on Staten Island in New York City.Credit…Stephanie Keith for The New York Times More Americans are getting tested for coronavirus than ever before — and that could mean more surprise medical bills. Congress wrote rules in March that aimed to make coronavirus testing free for all Americans. Patients, with or without…
College students and their parents face a daunting challenge this Thanksgiving: How can students go home for the holiday without bringing the coronavirus with them? The logistics of Thanksgiving break in the midst of a pandemic are tough. College campuses have emerged as hotbeds of infection in some parts of the country, accounting for more…
Blair Imani thinks and speaks at a mile a minute. That speed comes in handy when the historian and social activist is creating her “Smarter in Seconds” Instagram videos — a series of bite-size tutorials that nimbly address such subjects as consent, cultural appropriation and gender expression for her audience of more than 300,000 followers,…
Two years ago, Michael J. Fox had surgery to remove a benign tumor on his spinal cord. The actor and activist, who had been living with Parkinson’s disease for nearly three decades, had to learn to walk all over again. Four months later, he fell in the kitchen of his Upper East Side home and…