Six Great Movies About Presidents

Watch it on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu, YouTube [Read The New York Times review.] ‘Seven Days in May’ The characters in this jittery 1964 thriller are fictional, but the situation — particularly of late — feels all too real. Kirk Douglas plays a Marine colonel who suspects that a hawkish Air Force…

How to Celebrate The Inauguration Safely

The inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Jan. 20 will be different from past ceremonies. The Presidential Inaugural Committee is urging people to stay home to keep large crowds from potentially spreading the coronavirus, and there’s heightened security after a violent attack on the Capitol. But there are…

Go Ahead. Fantasize.

Imani Baucom, 29, a teacher in Washington, D.C., has been fantasizing about taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to see a class of fifth graders she taught some seven years ago. They’ll be graduating from high school this spring. Jordan Firstman, a television writer who has found some celebrity this year doing impersonations on…

Why Isn’t Kelp Catching On?

In the past year and a half, Ms. Warner said, Atlantic Sea Farms has been able to scale up production of kelp to a million pounds from 30,000 pounds. “And so when I hear things like, ‘Oh, the seaweed industry is not growing,’ I’m like, ‘Oh, really?” she said. Some of the company’s high-profile partnerships…

Weddings: Yes They Met Online

Rachel Jennifer Heyman did some quick-fire swiping on the Tinder dating app at her apartment in Manhattan one Saturday evening in January 2019 with her friend over glasses of wine, a variety of Trader Joe’s appetizers and reality TV. “At points we would take each other’s phone,” she said, and swiped right for each other…