Turkey’s Women’s Volleyball Team Inspires Pride
As the volleyball game neared its end, thousands of fans watching on giant screens in an Istanbul park rose to their feet and fell silent. The ball soared, a Turkish…
Three American Lives Forever Changed by a Weapon Now Being Sent to Ukraine
In the summer of 2003, not long after U.S. forces had taken Baghdad, a group of Marines were clearing unexploded ordnance in central Iraq when one of the small grenades…
How the Khakova Dam Disaster Continues to Devastate Ukraine
Sunset along the Kakhovka Reservoir in central Ukraine, especially in summer, used to be gorgeous: kids played in the shallow water near the shore, men fished and young couples walked…
Meet Fabian Nelson, Mississippi’s First Openly L.G.B.T.Q. Legislator
Only two states in the nation, Louisiana and Mississippi, have never elected an openly L.G.B.T.Q. lawmaker. Now, there will be only one. On Tuesday, Fabian Nelson won a Democratic primary…
Don’t Underestimate Jimmy Buffett’s Influence on Style
Odds are the world of capital-F fashion never gave a moment’s thought to Jimmy Buffett, the bard of Margaritaville, who died on Friday at 76. Yet the truth is the…
Burning Man Attendees Told to Conserve Food and Water
Thousands of attendees at the Burning Man festival in a remote stretch of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada were told on Saturday to conserve food, water and fuel after…
Judge Vacates Convictions in Bribery Case Over Soccer Broadcast Deals
Less than six months after a federal jury convicted a former Fox employee and an Argentine sports marketing company of participating in a scheme to pay bribes in exchange for…
Bill Richardson Reveled in Role of Freelance Envoy to Dictators
It was days before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and the U.S. government was urging Americans to stay away from Russia. That’s when Bill Richardson boarded a plane to…
On Fire Island, a Home for Art — and the Artists Who Make It
THERE’S A DISTINCT palette to Fire Island Pines, the gay beach getaway a two-hour train ride from New York City. Boxy houses and boardwalks made of untreated cedar have gone…
Staking the Future on a Stretch of Sidewalk in Brooklyn
On a recent Sunday, Oliver Hernandez jumped out of the van driven by his partner. It was 6 a.m. The mom-and-pop shops along Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, were…
Alex Smith’s Recovery Didn’t Prepare Him for Daughter’s Cancer Fight
This was the Alex Smith comeback years in the making. He had endured a gruesome compound fracture in his right leg that led to a life-threatening infection but persisted through…
How Some Iranian Americans View Education and Financial Success
In the summer of 1996, when I was 16, some of my friends found jobs at our local mall in Jacksonville, Fla. We all came from upper-middle-class families, so working…
Driverless Taxis Blocked Ambulance and Patient Later Died, San Francisco Fire Dept. Says
Two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a critically injured patient who later died at a hospital, a San Francisco Fire Department report said, in another incident involving self-driving…
Officials Knew of Problems at Building That Caught Fire in South Africa
No one was in the dark about what was happening at 80 Albert Street. In January 2019, a Johannesburg city official was so shocked by what she saw during a…