A Sri Lankan Feast on a Tropical Modernist Estate
The chef Cynthia Shanmugalingam cooked a meal that celebrated the country’s heirloom produce and homegrown creative culture.
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They Found Love in the Airport Lounge
Sign up for the Travel Dispatch newsletter. Essential news on the changing travel landscape, expert tips and inspiration for your future trips. Get it sent to your inbox.Brittany Romano, 32, was not looking to start her own long-distance rom-com …
Trading Mere Survival for a Chance at Stability
Da’Monya Cavitt tiptoes down the stairs of the house in Vallejo, Calif., that he shares with his father and two other refinery workers. He moves quietly — everyone else works night shifts, and he’s careful not to wake them. The curtains stay drawn …
$1.3 Million Homes in California
A Spanish Revival house in Riverside, a midcentury-modern home in Palm Springs, and a three-bedroom Craftsman in Berkeley.
A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars
In his first hours back as president, Donald J. Trump did an extraordinary thing: He made a direct assault on the Constitution. He declared that his government would no longer treat U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants or children of lawful …
All Good Things Come to an End. What About Bad Things?
Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. I’m having a flashback to April 2017, just after my arrival at The Times from The Wall Street Journal. It was, uh, a bit of a hard landing. You introduced yourself, told me you co-wrote an online column called “The …
If You’re a Voter Reading This, This Essay Is Not About You
The conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart observed that politics is downstream from culture — that voters are more influenced by what they watch, listen to and like than by actual politicians. As a Democrat who works on presidential campaigns, I …
Will Tech Billionaires Move Fast and Break Our Brains?
When the political scientist Rick Doblin founded an organization in the 1980s aimed at securing federal approval for the medical use of MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, his vision was nothing short of utopian. He thought the psychedelic drug, which can …
You Want to Protect Jewish Students? What About Jewish Student Protesters?
On April 29, 2024, Tess Segal, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Florida, joined her fellow activists at a prominent plaza on campus calling on the university to divest from weapons manufacturers and boycott academic institutions in Israel …
Trump Says He Wants to Save the U.S. Auto Industry. His Policies Could Destroy It.
President Trump has created what could be called a Luddite trap for the American auto industry: His tariffs aim to protect it from foreign competition, while his domestic policies threaten to cut it off from innovation. Together, they risk leaving U …