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After school, my granddaughter, 9, walks a quarter of a mile — by herself — from the bus stop to her house while her father works from home. She texts him when...

So the Golden Globes returned, two years after disappearing from our screens, first because of a pandemic-induced lockdown and then because of scandal — financial, ethical and racial. And with their disappearance...

On the morning of the day I had decided to go without using plastic products — or even touching plastic — I opened my eyes and put my bare feet on the...

Salmon is one of those pliant proteins that you can successfully cook almost any way you want. Sear it hot and fast, until the skin crisps and the fillet browns. Roast it...

Having a flight delayed, then receiving little information or hope about when it will finally take off, is not an unfamiliar fate for frequent fliers. But the F.A.A. system failure that caused...

Lately I keep thinking about the artist Roz Chast’s New Yorker cover from 2018, depicting January as the “cruelest month” in the form of an Advent calendar. The days are full of...

R.J. Reynolds has wasted no time since California’s ban on flavored tobacco went into effect in late December. “California, We’ve Got You Covered,” the company declared in bold letters on a flier...

A Federal Aviation Administration system failure caused some flights across the United States to be grounded, the agency said early Wednesday.The full extent of the delays was not immediately known, and some...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the latest Ebola epidemic in Uganda over, closing the chapter on a deadly outbreak that lasted nearly four months and killed dozens of people.The outbreak...

Not to put a damper on your seed-catalog bingeing — it marks the ritual start to every new garden season, after all — but Andrew Schuyler has a question: Is there a...