Medicare may just be the budget buster that wasn’t. Somehow, after decades of nonstop growth, its spending per person has flattened over the past dozen years, saving taxpayers roughly $3.9 trillion since 2011, according to an Upshot analysis. But the reasons for the slowdown — and its duration — are not well understood. Our article…
Había comprado un cubrecama de algodón de colores, una hamaca que colgó fuera entre los postes del toldo, una olla de peltre azul para que pudiéramos cocinar en la fogata de ladrillo y dos cuencos de peltre azul a juego. Puerto Escondido era un pueblo pesquero y un lugar para hacer surf, pero no hice…
In every stitch, there is a story. Like layers of history, the hand-stitched Palestinian embroidery known as tatreez, traditionally used to ornament Palestinian dress, tells of towns and villages lost, old customs abandoned, past lives and survival. The stitched designs and symbols once functioned almost as an identification card. The rooster, an old Christian symbol,…
On Thursday evening, Mayor Eric Adams walked into a dining room at Gracie Mansion wearing a bright red blazer with polka-dot elbow patches. “I just love this color,” he said, continuing, “I just pick out of the closet whatever my mood is.” (He didn’t know where he got the jacket from.) Mr. Adams was co-hosting…
Backstage at Christian Siriano’s spring/summer 2024 show, the general atmosphere is electric. Nay, romantic. Held at the iconic Pierre Hotel in New York City, a relic of gilded glory, the floor-to-ceiling murals and elaborate moldings are far from the most opulent items in your line of sight. The venue is no accident: Siriano’s ballet-inspired collection…
This week, I found myself breathlessly refreshing TikTok and Twitter — still not ready to call it X, sorry — for the latest updates in the saga of the Tabi Swiper. The story goes like this: After a second date, a man named Josh went home with a woman named Alexis Dougé for the evening.…
Food memories can sometimes run backward, to a moment when we first experienced entirely new sensations. This is not that story. In the summer of 2010, I worked at Pies ‘n’ Thighs, a Brooklyn restaurant focused on classic Southern comfort foods. One of my responsibilities was transforming that morning’s produce order into the basis for…
If you’ve spent any time in the military, or around people who have, you’ve likely encountered the merch often given out free at workplace gatherings or sold at convention centers during air and sea expos. Major defense contractors like Raytheon, Boeing and Northrop-Grumman have produced baseball hats, T-shirts and water bottles advertising military-grade weapons like…
Attending this show was super special to me. Buying a Coach bag was one of the first things I did to celebrate my very first paycheck when I began working. If I had told my 15-year-old self I would one day be sitting front row, she wouldn’t believe it. (I still have the bag, by…
Growing up in South Philadelphia, Quil Lemons first trained his lens on family and friends, his photographs of cousins and neighbors snaring the art world’s attention. By the time he was 20, he was focusing on young Black men as the subjects of “Glitterboy,” a series that highlighted, as its title suggests, adolescents slathered in…