Good morning. We’re through the Jewish High Holy Days and still more than a week out from Diwali, and we’re not quite at the point yet where we’re jotting down ideas for Thanksgiving. It’s a perfect time to do a pantry cleanse, a pantry reboot, get yourself squared away for recipes new and old. This…
Hydration is the only promise a sheet mask can keep, though even that might be a reach, according to Michelle Wong, a chemist who runs the skin care blog LabMuffin. Despite claims you might read on the packaging, “sheet masks will not cure anything,” Ms. Wong said. But that doesn’t mean they are not pampering.…
It’s fitting that Amazon’s “Modern Love,” which debuts Friday and draws its stories from the New York Times column of the same name, puts forward the best version of itself in the very beginning. No one who has ever dated needs reminding that first impressions can be misleading, but the solid narrative skills and excellent…
CLEVELAND — A mayor of a small West Virginia city brought to its knees by opioids and representatives of large cities and counties left reeling by the epidemic will gather in federal court here on Friday morning, to sit side by side with chief executives from the country’s largest drug distributors. Along with platoons of…
It happened by accident, really. After a rocket launch aborted mid-flight, grounding two astronauts who were supposed to go to the International Space Station, NASA had to shift its schedule. Without thinking much of it, the agency announced that Christina Koch and Anne McClain — two women — would do the spacewalk instead, and just…
Once the scaffolding comes down and construction crews move on, the new Beckford House and Tower condominium buildings now taking shape on Manhattan’s Upper East Side could easily be mistaken for structures built nearly a century ago. On the outside, the two buildings, which have already topped out at 301 East 80th Street and 301…
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in New Orleans is preparing a ruling on the Affordable Care Act that could put the law’s future front and center in the presidential race, overwhelming the current Democratic debate over Medicare for all and reigniting the health care-driven worries that helped Democrats win back the House last year.…
Angela Yee, co-host of “The Breakfast Club,” a syndicated morning radio show, knows plenty about hip-hop. But she also knows how to give advice on everything from getting out of debt to saying “I love you,” which she does through her segment “Ask Yee.” Her podcast, “Lip Service,” which she produces with three other friends,…
As young boys in Penang, Malaysia, Aik Wye and Sean Ng routinely watched English Premier League soccer, something of a national obsession, on TV. They witnessed the way their community gathered in kopi tiams, or coffee shops, to catch the action from afar. They remember their friends and family members growing impassioned with each goal…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The New York Times’s Modern Love column is celebrating its 15th anniversary of weekly essays about relationships and revelations. That adds up to some 750 hearts poured out in about 1,500 words. Four years ago,…