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Some health care workers are getting the vaccine. Others aren’t. Who decides?

December 18, 2020 at 12:06 p.m.

Dr. Biron Baker runs a family medicine clinic in Bismarck, North Dakota. Every day patients walk through the door, and any number of them could be sick with the coronavirus....

In a big year for video games, these players are shifting the culture

December 18, 2020 at 10:34 a.m.

It should come as no surprise that 2020 was a monumental year for the video game industry. While other business sectors saw revenues shrink and storefronts close, gaming companies have...

The new influencer capital of America

December 17, 2020 at 5:15 p.m.

It's no secret Atlanta is one of the nation's great culture capitals, home to many power brokers in music, fashion and the arts — a city that, since the 1980s,...

These educators and activists can help you navigate intimacy now

December 17, 2020 at 5:02 p.m.

This year, physical distance and safety became part of a suddenly urgent conversation for everyone. But for educators focused on intimacy and consent, questions about bodies and boundaries are a...

How putting on a mask raised Naomi Osaka’s voice

December 17, 2020 at 12:37 p.m.

As usual, Naomi Osaka's postmatch interview struck an emotional chord.

Red Sox. White Sox. Blue Sox? Manny is still Manny.

December 17, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.

The email in his inbox had to be a joke. A 48-year-old Major League Baseball legend wanting to play professionally in a country he had never been to? It had...

The unsexy side of COVID vaccines gets Wall Street’s attention

December 16, 2020 at 2:09 p.m.

As countries prepare to distribute hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines — some of which require storage as cold as the South Pole in winter and meticulous handling — the...

Jacquelyn and Justin Swisher, and their son Cashton, 17 months, get ready to load up the tree they selected at Bell's Christmas Tree Farm, which closed early this year after selling out its inventory, in Accord, N.Y., Dec. 4, 2020. People looking for a little joy and relief from the stresses of 2020 spurred a surge in demand for real Christmas trees, and some pick-and-cut farms, like Bell's, have sold out their supplies for the first time ever. (Judith Levitt/The New York Times)

In a hard year, families find joy in real Christmas trees

December 16, 2020 at 10:27 a.m.

The stress of 2020, including a pandemic, protests against racial injustice and a bitterly contested presidential election, left many Americans grasping for scraps of joy wherever they could be found....

Delivery workers in South Korea say they’re dying of ‘overwork’

December 16, 2020 at 10:07 a.m.

The string of deaths among couriers this year has caused a national uproar, drawing attention to worker protections that are unevenly distributed in a place that once had one of...

Thomas L. Friedman column: Kamala Harris deserves a more important job

December 16, 2020 at 9:38 a.m.

I'd love to see President-elect Joe Biden give her a more important job: his de facto secretary of rural development, in charge of closing the opportunity gap, the connectivity gap,...

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