A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season
This holiday season, shoppers have more artificial intelligence to help with their gift lists. Target, Walmart, Ralph Lauren and other...
Tariffs and Strike Drive ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Boost for Canadian Wine
In September, L’Abattoir, an upscale restaurant in Vancouver, British Columbia, had a problem: It was running out of French Muscat...
Donate to Help Build Community in the Mideast
This article is part of Times Opinion’s 2025 Giving Guide. So much of my thinking and writing over the last...
On a Volcanic Caribbean Isle, 37 Beaches and Endless Views
Logistics tend to bump up the price of visiting the Caribbean. But the dual-nation island of Dutch St. Maarten and...
The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People
At Ford Motor Company headquarters near Detroit, Phillip Toyne, a shy Australian lawyer, warned executives in 2005 that the lead...
What Is Agentic A.I., and Would You Trust It to Book a Flight?
A bot may soon be booking your vacation. Millions of travelers already use artificial intelligence to compare options for flights,...
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
Amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown, special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and...
As Trump Pushes to End Ukraine War, Europe Toils to Have a Say
For Europe’s leaders, the weekend began with another threat to their relevance, courtesy of President Trump. Would the Americans really...
What Your Signature Dish Says About You
My childhood was built on signature dishes. Every Christmas morning, my stepdad would slip into the kitchen and slide a...
What’s Behind the Rise in Brutality in N.Y. Prisons?
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll get details on abusive treatment of inmates by guards in New York State prisons....
She Wants to Build a Culinary Empire From Scratch
The prepared foods counter at Happier Grocery on Canal Street in Manhattan is usually a hotbed of chaos and activity...
Equal Parts Baroque and R&B, John Holiday Is His Own Singer
While driving to hear the countertenor John Holiday at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va., I cued up a track from...
Is it Cold, Flu or Covid? What to Know About Symptoms and Testing.
Early clues suggest that this flu season could be particularly brutal. And while national Covid rates currently appear to be...
What Have You Always Wanted to Know About an Older Family Member?
How much do you know about the pasts of your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or other older relatives? Are there...
What to Remember From ‘Stranger Things’ Before the Final Season Premieres
When “Stranger Things” debuted on Netflix in the summer of 2016, it arrived without much advance hype, at a time...
