Your New Breakfast Plan

How’s your breakfast game going? Once, when everyone went to offices and shops for work, there was bolted coffee and Advil, a muffin from the kindly man with the cart on the corner, the occasional croissant, a bacon-egg-and-cheese. No more. Now we’re at home, so many of us, and falling into ruts: the same-old buttered…

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When the World Opens Up

Welcome. As people around the world begin to receive the coronavirus vaccine, our thoughts may turn — tentatively, still, but more frequently — to hopes for the time when quarantine restrictions are lifted. “The important thing about imagination is that it gives you optimism,” the psychology professor Martin Seligman told the reporter Tariro Mzezewa. Imagining…

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Manifesting, for the Rest of Us

That doctrine was echoed in the mid-20th-century teachings of Norman Vincent Peale, an American clergyman widely known as “God’s salesman,” whose 1952 best seller, “The Power of Positive Thinking,” urged followers: “expect great things and great things will come.” Among Peale’s cheery bromides, reportedly embraced by Donald Trump’s father, Fred, and later by Mr. Trump…

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Twitter Is Obsessed With Ella Emhoff’s Inauguration Coat

We gathered today to witness the historical inauguration of President Joe Biden and our first female, South Asian, and Black Vice President Kamala Harris. And through sobbing tears of relief, Ella Emhoff’s sparkly coat offered yet another bright spot from today’s events. While most attendees chose solid colors and monochromatic outfits—purple, in particular, being significant—Emhoff…

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