The nation’s leading health insurers are experiencing an embarrassment of profits. Some of the largest companies, including Anthem, Humana and UnitedHealth Group, are reporting second-quarter earnings that are double what they were a year ago. And while insurance profits are capped under the Affordable Care Act, with the requirement that consumers should benefit from such…
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Welcome. The mission of At Home is to help our readers live a full and cultured life during the pandemic. Sometimes that means telling you what we think about Beyoncé’s “Black Is King.” Other times it means figuring out whether you should travel this year. Always it means telling you to make chicken shawarma. Recently,…
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A reckoning is happening in fashion, and brands are struggling to figure out how to make necessary changes and move forward. For too long, the industry has been operating with bias, promoting a certain image that, by and large, left people of color out of the framework. From corporations to media outlets to social media…
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My loaf pan has gotten a mighty workout amid the pandemic baking frenzy. But not so much the Bundt pan, which had been languishing in a high cabinet, waiting for an occasion grand enough to warrant its ornateness. But as fancy as Bundt cakes look, making them isn’t any harder than throwing together your average…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageDemonstrators on Monday participated in a car caravan protest in Chicago, calling for public school classes to be held remotely when school begins in the fall.Credit…Scott Olson/Getty Images Education roundup After parents and teachers opposed a hybrid model, Chicago schools will reopen online only. Public school students in Chicago,…
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SAN FRANCISCO — As the Chinese-owned video app TikTok works to head off the threat of a ban in the United States, Facebook has sensed opportunity. On Wednesday, Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, released Reels. Just like TikTok, people can use Reels to create 15-second videos that are designed to be easily shareable.…
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MUNICH — The box was in transit for nearly two months. Every day, from the end of April until mid-June, Tiffany Schureman, 42, would track the package her mother had sent from Dallas to Athens, where Ms. Schureman lives and writes about travel. She has not seen her family in a year, and like many…
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Good morning. J. Kenji López-Alt has a fascinating article in The Times this week about a trip he took with his wife, Adri, to her native Colombia, and the empanadas (above) he learned to make there with the chef Carlos Gaviria. Kenji was left speechless, he wrote, by the secret ingredient used to make the…
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Maybe you are an altruist looking for a way to help fight the coronavirus. Maybe you are hoping to be among the first to try an experimental vaccine. Or maybe you are just bored or could use a few hundred dollars. Whatever your reasons, scientists, bioethicists and current volunteers say participating in a vaccine trial…
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Four Bedrooms and Boat Storage on Lake Thingvellir $795,000 (108 MILLION ICELANDIC KRONA) This four-bedroom summer house is perched on a green hill overlooking Lake Thingvellir, the largest lake in Iceland, in the rural southwest region of Grafningshreppur, about 30 miles east of Reykjavik. The 1.9-acre property sits among a cluster of summer houses along…
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