This Seafood Stew Is Endlessly Riffable
When I’m cooking at home, I usually don’t have a recipe at hand. Often, I’m cooking by feel, like confidently noodling on the piano without sheet …
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Scandal-Shaken Austria Gets Its 3rd Chancellor This Year
Austria swore in a new chancellor, Karl Nehammer, on Monday, the third person in two months to take up the position after a corruption scandal …
We Are Not Going to Run Out of Hypocrisy Anytime Soon
Gail Collins: Bret, I rely on you for the inside story on what Republicans are thinking even when you disagree with them. Bret: Uh-oh. Gail: Two …
Why Humans Aren’t the Worst (Despite, Well, Everything Happening in the World)
Produced by ‘Sway’ In 2019, when Rutger Bregman published his book “Humankind: A Hopeful History” and made a case for the decency of human nature …
A Glimmer of Justice in Death Penalty States
NASHVILLE — In 1987, a young man named Pervis Payne, stopping at his girlfriend’s place in Millington, Tenn., noticed that the door to the …
Opioids Feel Like Love. That’s Why They’re Deadly in Tough Times.
I had told myself that I’d never try heroin because it sounded too perfect. It’s like “warm, buttery love,” a friend told me. When I did yield to …
Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight
MOSCOW — When cybersleuths traced the millions of dollars American companies, hospitals and city governments have paid to online extortionists in …
Bearing Witness to Svalbard’s Fragile Splendor
Mesmerized, I would lean against the railing at the front of the ship, alone, for hours on end. Over the course of 10 days, no two moments were …
Your Monday Briefing
Shoppers on Oxford Street in London yesterday. Credit…Henry Nicholls/ReutersOmicron cases rise in Europe Dozens of new cases of the Omicron …
I Tried to Change Bob Dole. Now I Realize He Was Right.
Early in the 1996 race for the White House, the senior leadership of Bob Dole’s presidential campaign noticed something that troubled us: It …