Icelanders Vote in Volatile Election With Climate in Mind
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Icelanders were voting Saturday in a general election dominated by climate change, with an unprecedented number of political …
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Angela Merkel Was Underestimated, and It Became Her Superpower
Almost every article written about Angela Merkel’s tenure as Germany’s chancellor notes that one of her greatest political strengths has been …
My Mission to Ferret Out a Lost Broadway Score
It’s not hard to know that Fats Waller was a jazz pianist and entertainer who wrote great songs like “Ain’t Misbehavin’.” You can see him do what …
U.K.’s Migrant Boat Dispute Has Eyes Fixed on the Channel
FOLKESTONE, England — Using high-powered binoculars and a telescope, three volunteers from a humanitarian monitoring group stood on the Kent …
This Is No Way to End a Pandemic
A year ago, before any Covid vaccine had been authorized for use, former President Donald Trump all but promised that a shot would be available …
Robert E. Lee’s Statues Are Gone. That’s Not the End of His Story.
This month in Virginia, the most famous statue of Robert E. Lee — a 21-foot-tall bronze equestrian sculpture — was swung down from its granite …
Education Doesn’t Inoculate Us from Vaccine Hesitancy
I got in a bit of a dust-up online recently for concluding that vaccine hesitance and resistance to masking were not uncommon among health care …
7 Gadgets to Make You Less Weird When You Go Back to the Office
After 18 months of isolation, it’s time to dust off your favorite Dockers. We put in 130 hours of research and testing to offer you seven gadgets …
Can You Break the Lease if Your Apartment Might Flood?
Q: I live in a Park Slope garden apartment with ongoing drainage issues. During hurricanes Henri and Ida, I was bucketing water away from the …
Anita Hill Has Some Perspective to Offer
Anita Hill still speaks in the measured tones she did while being questioned before an all-white, all-male panel before the Senate in 1991 — a …