Chocolate Grows Up in the Land of Its Birth: the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest, origin of the cacao bean, is giving life to a nascent craft chocolate movement in Brazil. Global...
Trump’s All-but-Forgotten Border Wall Reaches an Angry Laredo, Texas
Roque Haynes aimed his appeal directly at the mayor of Laredo last Friday as the border city in South Texas...
A Gay Woman Becomes New York’s Lutheran Bishop
Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll meet the new Lutheran bishop of New York, the first woman and the first openly...
6 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Who can say if it’s been changed for the better? ‘Wicked: For Good’ Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return as...
Western soldiers are turning to Xbox controllers to fight a new kind of drone war. The pilots love them.
The Surveyor interceptor drone at a demonstration this week. Artur Widak via Reuters ConnectWestern soldiers are using Xbox controllers to...
Why ‘Surveillance Pricing’ Strikes a Nerve
If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product, as the refrain goes. In other words, many social...
Obama Gives House Dems a Battle Plan to Take Down Trump at Secret Meeting
Former President Barack Obama has met with the party’s newest leaders and outlined a plan to win power from Donald...
Who Is ‘More MAGA Than JD Vance’? 2 Conservatives on Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump and the G.O.P.
Is there a civil war in the Republican Party? In a written online conversation, the Times Opinion editor John Guida...
Why the Rings of Saturn Seem as if They’re About to Disappear
If you head into your backyard this weekend and set up your telescope, the giant planet Saturn will be there...
Instead of Fitbit’s AI Health Coach, You Could Just Have Friends
Someone needs to say it. Someone has to speak up in defense of being mid. I am a mid runner....
