My Boyfriend Wants a Prenup. Can I Say No?
Put off by her fiancé’s request for a prenuptial agreement after years of paying her own way, a reader is finding that resentment is crowding out her excitement.
As Covid Emergency Ends, U.S. Response Shifts to ‘Peacetime’ Mode
On Thursday, three years and 100 days after the Trump administration declared the coronavirus a public health emergency, the Biden administration will allow the emergency declaration to expire, ushering in a new era when the government will treat Covid-19 like any other respiratory ailment. If the coronavirus pandemic was a war, the United States is…
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What Survives in the Atacama Desert?
BY THE TIME I arrived at the European Southern Observatory site at Paranal, I could feel the dryness in my body. A headache nagged. The astronomers there said occasionally their skin itched; they didn’t sleep well. “Sometimes you look like a 100-year-old person,” said Florian Rodler, a 44-year-old staff astronomer originally from Austria. But the…
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Why Americans Are Smuggling Fruit Roll-Ups Into Israel
Cocaine. Foreign currencies. Firearms. All contraband that customs agents are trained to catch. But hundreds of pounds of Fruit Roll-Ups? Welcome to the age of TikTok-influenced smuggling. Because of a recipe that spread widely on the social media platform, Fruit Roll-Ups — the American-made fruit leather snack that has been passed out to children at…
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15 Fashion Triumphs From Cannes Over the Decades
If the Met Gala is the all-star showcase of red carpet entrances, the Oscars the skills championship, and the MTV Video Music Awards the X Games, then the Cannes Film Festival is effectively the playoffs: an extended period in which celebrities show up multiple times in clothes high and low, demonstrating all their moves. And…
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How to Compost, According to Gardening Experts
When it comes to composting, where things break down — or don’t — is often where we get in our own way. We make the whole process too hard by fixating on details instead of the big picture. Yes, there are lists and rules that it’s tempting to get attached to: the precise ratio of…
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Mother’s Day Brunch Recipes
Many moms love the hustle and bustle of a fancy brunch place on Mother’s Day, which falls on Sunday. (We have plenty of suggestions for them.) But a lot of us just want a quiet, cozy morning at home, a hot cup of coffee we get to finish and a meal we don’t have to…
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Graduates Are Now Paying Graphic Designers to Decorate Their Caps
Maria Rubio wasn’t sure she would graduate from Arizona State University after having a daughter when she was a sophomore. “I was on the verge of dropping out,” she said. But Ms. Rubio, 22, who immigrated to the United States from Mexico as a child, said that becoming a mother in 2020 ultimately gave her…
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The Companies Trying to Make Live Shopping a Thing in the U.S.
On a warm spring evening in New York, dozens of people gathered on a rooftop in Midtown Manhattan to sip fruity cocktails and chat. Shortly after the happy hour began, a woman stepped away from the crowd and went to work. Standing between a backdrop of fake greenery and an iPhone attached to a ring…
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Yotam Ottolenghi Celebrates Spring With Asparagus
There’s something about asparagus that makes it a bit intimidating. There’s an aura to it, a mystique, a set of rituals related to its seasonality and how fresh it ought to be, rules on how it should be cooked (steamed in an asparagus pot, if you can) and eaten, without overwhelming it (with just some…
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