5 ways to ring in the New Year at home
Your homebound New Year's Eve and New Year's Day can still be romantic, nostalgic and filled with traditions — old and new. Here are five creative and unexpectedly connective options...
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A flying elephant, a teacher’s hugs: 12 tales of pandemic resilience
The virus has been crushing spirits around the world, but some people refuse to be bowed. Here are their stories.
The tech that was fixed in 2020 and the tech that still needs fixing
To put it lightly, 2020 was rough. More than ever, we turned to our personal tech this year to help find respite, stay healthy and remain connected with the people...
George Clooney on ‘The Midnight Sky’ and Donald Trump
Clooney has spent the past several months quarantining in Los Angeles with his lawyer wife, Amal, and their 3-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, while also putting the finishing touches on...
How will we eat in 2021? 11 predictions to chew on.
Here are 11 developments that forecasters, market researchers and academics see catching fire in 2021.
Police took their son away. Then the merchants of hope showed up.
They have been searching for him ever since, along the way encountering an industry of merchants peddling hope: lawyers, human rights groups and the churches and pastors who asked for...
A COVID Christmas comes to Bethlehem
The coronavirus pandemic has put a damper on Christmas at the place where it is said to have all begun.
Uncovering lost Black history, stone by stone
Plenty of people research their genealogy, or undertake local history projects. But few create their own museum, as Buck and Mills did when they founded the Stoutsburg Sourland African American...
Five Kwanzaa celebrations around the country
Kwanzaa is more than an end-of-year display of deep orange and burnt burgundy Dutch wax-print fabrics, and righteous images of fruit bowls sitting near wooden cups. It is an edifying...
For Europe, it’s wave after wave
The coronavirus first smashed into Europe with a wave of infections that nearly broke its hospitals — exhausting, infecting and killing doctors and nurses. Lockdowns created some space in intensive...