How beauty brands learned to speak ‘Sephora tween’On a Thursday night in February, more than 200 moms and tweens packed into Townhouse, a speaking venue in Greenwich, Connecticut, for a talk by esthetician Nicole Caroline.
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?I’ve known Dan Brooks for 40 years now. Somehow we’re still talking to each other. We’ve followed radically different trajectories since first meeting back in the ’80s.
I Never Wanted to Be a Parent but I Love Being ‘The Lady Down the Street’Being a non-parent grown-up shows kids that there’s more than one way to have a good life.
Putin’s Enemies are Struggling to UniteWho’s really to blame for the war in Ukraine? Vladimir Putin and his government? Or Russia and its people? Under international law, the answer may seem obvious. The Russian President gave the orders for his military to invade, and he carries ultimate responsibility.
What to do when returning to the workforce after a long breakThe most common career path involves starting a job soon after graduating from college and working continuously until retirement with the potential for a short gap to get a degree (like an MBA) or a time between jobs. But, life can intervene to create longer career gaps.
America’s Worst Time ZoneI get meeting times wrong all the time. I mean to schedule an hour earlier or an hour later, but then I get mixed up. The problem is, I always have to compensate for where I am, which is in the city of St. Louis, Missouri.
How a ‘Strange,’ ‘Evil’ Fruit Came to Define Italy’s CuisineT’s May 19 Travel issue is dedicated to pasta in Italy, diving deep into the culinary traditions, regional variations and complicated history of the country’s national symbol. ON THE COUNTER sits a bucket of tomatoes just picked from a tumble of fields halfway up a mountain in southern Italy.
How to Start Strength Training If You’ve Never Done It BeforeThe weight room at the gym can be an intimidating place. The equipment looks like it could crush you if you use it wrong. People grunt as they haul heavy things up and down. And why don’t these machines come with instruction manuals, anyway?
21 Small Bedroom Ideas for When Your Bed Takes Up the Whole RoomWorry not, there’s still plenty you can do to enliven your space.
How the Soon-to-Reopen Folger Shakespeare Library Came to BeThe title page of one of the Folger’s First Folios. Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library Future titan of industry Henry Clay Folger Jr. lived the first part of his life in Dickensian poverty.
Do Children Have a “Right to Hug” Their Parents?Le’Essa Hill, aged eighteen, works at a Subway sandwich shop near Flint, Michigan. Her younger sister, a fifteen-year-old aspiring zookeeper named Addy, helps run a “mini-farm” inside the family’s green clapboard house.
Fatphobia Hurts Thin People TooIn 2020 more than 40 percent of Americans reported experiencing weight stigma, not only from friends and family members but also from their nurses and doctors.
India, gangs … or both? Who is behind assassinations of Canadian Sikhs?Less than half an hour after the prominent Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead outside a temple in British Columbia, Moninder Singh addressed a crowd near the site of the brazen attack. Reaction from Delhi, more than 11,000 kilometres away, was starkly different.
The USDA’s Gardening Zones Shifted. This Map Shows You What’s Changed in Vivid DetailThere’s a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has an unlikely, lasting place in gaming historyKim Kardashian was already more than a household name in 2013. The Kardashian name (hers, specifically) was equivalent with “celebrity” — or “notoriety,” depending on who was saying it.
The messy SCOTUS drama about Black voters in Louisiana, explainedMultiple federal courts are fighting over Louisiana's illegal racial gerrymander. Three different federal courts are fighting among themselves over who gets to draw Louisiana’s congressional maps.
Are heat pumps more expensive to run than gas boilers?Every year about 130 million households across Europe burn almost 40% of the continent’s total gas consumption to heat their homes. Those boilers contribute more than a fifth of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions in the process.
How the Fashion of Rebelde Inspired a Latinx Pop-Punk GenerationThe 2004 Mexican soap opera had a lasting impact on young rebellious teenagers’ style—and encouraged them to embrace their roots.
The Creator Of ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Knows Exactly Where It All Went WrongWhen they were still in arts school in Seattle in the early 1990s, Jesper Myrfors and Sandra Everingham would sometimes look for inspiration by exploring Fort Worden, an abandoned 19th century military base at the entrance of the Puget Sound. To them, it felt like a dwarven ruin.