The announcement of an elite women’s field at most major marathons usually begins with a superlative or two. Historic. Unprecedented. Stacked. The strongest it’s ever been. These days, more often…
The online personal finance company called SoFi first made a name for itself by rounding up money from Stanford alumni to help the university’s M.B.A. students get cheaper student loans.…
Pitcher plants supplement their diets with this one strange trick: eating flesh. Usually found growing in relatively poor soil, the plants sprout pitcher-shaped cups with pretty, frilly tops that obscure…
Just after Kimberly Lauren France and Paul Richard Green met on Tinder in early April 2021, Mr. Green floated an idea. Instead of getting to know each other through the…
The years have not been kind to Arthur Burns, who led the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978 and is often remembered as perhaps the worst chair ever to head…
In February, I spoke with Weisz over Zoom from her home in upstate New York. She wore a plain shirt and thick glasses of crystal-clear acrylic that gave her the…
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In 1992, the geneticist Elizabeth Wagner Reed self-published…
MELBOURNE, Australia — The year of the first Earth Day, 1970, was the year I stopped eating meat. I didn’t do it to save the Earth, but because I realized…
For Valentyn, a Ukrainian soldier in the Donetsk region, the war’s death toll is more than a statistic. He is tasked with moving wounded troops — and dead bodies —…
Several other countries also say they are evacuating their citizens from the capital, Khartoum.