Why That Whitney Houston Drumbeat Is So Addictive, Yet Hard to Match
Cue the drumbeat, the one people think they know. Boom. It lands right before Whitney Houston delivers the final chorus...
Titanic Passenger’s Pocket Watch Sells for $2.3 Million
A gold-trimmed pocket watch stopped ticking at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, as the Titanic was sinking in the...
Marilyn Minter Is Camera Ready
At 77, Marilyn Minter is, as she recently put it, no longer in the “white hot” of her career. Her...
F.B.I. Letters Send Shivers Through California’s Political Inner Circle
California lobbyists soaked in the sun at a Maui resort last week, attending conference sessions about energy and manufacturing in...
Haitians Rejoice Over Their First World Cup Berth in 50 Years
As Delmas Oslet watched the Haitian national soccer team earn its first spot in the World Cup in five decades,...
Fact-Checking Trump’s Latest Claims on Affordability
Ahead of Thanksgiving and amid frustration among American consumers over affordability, President Trump has recently insisted, often wrongly, that prices...
Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era
In the hours before the 141st meeting of the Harvard and Yale football teams on Saturday, a vast and raucous...
Ukraine and U.S. Set for Talks on Trump’s Plan to End War With Russia
Ukrainian, American and European officials were expected to meet in Switzerland on Sunday as part of President Trump’s push to...
Doulas Provide Crucial Care to Mothers. Medicaid Cuts Could Change That.
Anastasia Newyear held her tiny baby in her arms. She was in a New York City classroom for a final...
‘We Saw a Man Illuminated by a Disco Ball’
Beautiful Night Dear Diary: It was our friend’s birthday, and he wanted the best Thai food in the city. So,...
A Multitude of Fashion in Hong Kong
Locals, expatriates, workers, tourists: Spend two weeks walking as many streets as possible in Hong Kong, and a certain kind...
A Typewriter That Has Traveled the World
In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in the Museum...
Yes, Listening to a Book Counts as Reading
As a librarian, I get a lot of questions. One I am hearing more often is: Do audiobooks qualify as...
In Russian-Occupied Mariupol, Everything Ukrainian Must Go
Oleksandra Stolyar was living near Kyiv when she learned that her apartment in the occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol...
A Swath of Bank Customer Data Was Hacked. The F.B.I. Is Investigating.
Some of the nation’s biggest banks were scrambling on Saturday night to assess the fallout from a large-scale hack of...
