A Sheet-Pan Chicken and Corn Recipe for Summer
The beginning of corn season requires speed and simplicity. You want the fastest, easiest way to get that pile of evanescently sweet, nubby cobs on the table, ready for butter-slathering…
Listen: The Vanishing Family, The Retrievals, Oppenheimer
Audiophiles, Brace yourselves for a riveting week of great listens. Dive into the mystery of Covid’s origin, experience a gripping story about a family living in the shadow of early…
A Bottleneck on the Grid Threatens Clean Energy. New Rules Aim to Help.
Federal regulators on Thursday approved new rules to speed up the process for connecting wind and solar projects to the electric grid, in an attempt to reduce the growing delays…
The Retro Businesses Drawing From Hudson Valley’s Abandoned Buildings
When the owners of a solar-powered popcorn company in the Hudson Valley were looking to expand operations, they saw an opportunity in an empty roller rink. A former magazine editor…
New Jersey School to Pay $9.1 Million to Settle Suit Over Student’s Suicide
A New Jersey school district has agreed to pay $9.1 million to the parents of a sixth grader who died by suicide in 2017, ending a lawsuit that accused administrators…
The Dance Delight in ‘Barbie’ Belongs to the Kens
When Robbie’s Barbie is trying to escape from executives who want to put her back in her box, she runs through the offices with breathtaking strength as if gulping up…
Social Security COLA Is Forecast Around 3%
More than 74 million Americans can expect a healthy inflation adjustment to their Social Security benefits next year — just not as large as this year’s historic 8.7 percent raise.…
An ‘Oppenheimer’ Reading List – The New York Times
Rhodes’s Pulitzer-winning book has been having a renaissance among people grappling with the potential destructive force of other new technologies. Writing in The Atlantic, Charlie Warzel called it “a kind…
Essay: D.H. Lawrence and the Search for the ‘Essential American Soul’
Or maybe not. Like some other modernist writers — W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis — Lawrence, who died in 1930, dabbled in a mode of aesthetic anti-liberalism that may…
The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here
Digit drew a crowd, even here, in a convention center full of robot aficionados. A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf…
Opinion | With DeSantis Reeling, What About Tim Scott?
Last Sunday, I argued that despite his stagnation in the polls, for Republicans (and non-Republicans) who would prefer that Donald Trump not be renominated for the presidency, Gov. Ron DeSantis…
Opinion | Jane Austen’s English Countryside Is Not Mine
Often people assume I am someone I am not. My childhood was spent making dens in the hidden corners of the landscaped gardens of a grand country estate in the…
Coups in Africa Run Coast to Coast After Niger Turmoil
Africa’s coup belt spans the continent: a line of six countries crossing 3,500 miles, from coast to coast, that has become the longest corridor of military rule on Earth. This…
In Odesa, Attacks Stoke Hatred of Russia
Standing on a bridge overlooking the road to Odesa’s main port, Nina Sulzhenko surveyed the damage wrought by a recent Russian missile strike: The House of Scientists, one of the…