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The Jennings Creek wildfire burns in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., on Nov. 10. The Northeast has faced unusually dry weather conditions this fall; New York City didn’t record any significant rainfall in all of October. Drought conditions have fueled hundreds

H5N1 avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, has infected more than 100 million birds in the U.S. and almost 500 dairy-cattle herds across 15 states. The virus has popped up in mammals including elephant seals, goats, foxes, and house cats.

The annual U.N. climate-change summits are always a little crazy: tens of thousands of delegates descending on a far-flung city for two weeks of discussion on the future of climate policy. This time around, the conference—known this year as COP29—was

When Kari Leibowitz moved to the Arctic in 2014, she braced herself for the impact of long, dark, cold winters. The temperature in Tromso, Norway, hovers around 20°F for eight months of the year, during which time it snows daily. Surely the wind woul

Screens are part of modern teenage life—but there are almost no guardrails around what they see. While online videos can educate and connect young people, some content harms their emotional and psychological development. Now, for the first time, expe

Americans had a pandemic on their minds in 2020 when then President Donald Trump signed a $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. Tucked inside the legislation was another bit of business entirely—a provision requiring the Pentagon to investigate more th

Dhaka looks reborn after a fresh lick of paint, but this is not your typical municipal spruce-up. The sprawling Bangladeshi capital has been festooned with garish political murals celebrating August’s student-led ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasin

A person wades through floodwater on Nov. 12 after Typhoon Toraji brought heavy rainfall to the northern Philippine city of Ilagan. The Philippines has been reeling from six major back-to-back storms that have hit the country in a matter of weeks. To

Thanksgiving is a time for celebration with our families and communities—but for the millions of Americans who are living with hunger, it can be an intensely difficult reminder of their daily challenges. We may be as divided as ever, but we can agree

As a dating coach and the Director of Relationship science at Hinge, I often hear from people who feel like there’s something big they need to disclose on early dates—chronic illness, mental-health struggles, college debt, family estrangement, lack o

Inside Donald Trump’s orbit, it’s become a given that the former and future President can bypass Congress to magically fill his Cabinet with the loyalists of his choosing. That might have been so, if only he didn’t want Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth as

In the digital age, a name is more than just a label. It’s tied to our professional history and social media presence. It’s also how we are recognized by AI algorithms. Many traditions dictate that a woman change her surname upon marriage—but when sh

It might be time to change your texting habits. According to a recent study, people don’t like when you use abbreviations, such as turning really into rly or firing off a wyd (what are you doing?). These types of abbreviations register as insincere t

Hang on a minute. Whom did we just elect? The Republican ticket had two names at the top: Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. But parts of this delirious November created the impression that someone else has taken hold of our collective destiny. We already

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a political survivor. For more than 20 years, first as Turkey’s Prime Minister and then as its President, he has weaved his way through the kinds of crises that end the careers of even the most resourceful and resilient of lea

Two women clad in sheer pearl-dotted bodysuits with giant white roses strapped to their heads greet guests entering a Fashion Week party at Hotel Fouquet’s in New York City. A sign outside the room notes that the capacity is 74 people, but more than

Would you spend $40 on a meal? A workout class? A new T-shirt? To chat with a stranger about their life experience for half an hour? The last is the business model behind Fello, a new app that pays people to tell their life stories to others going th

The image onscreen appears just as it did in a 17-year-old Luca Guadagnino’s mind: as an infatuated man gazes at his object of desire, a translucent, almost ghostly version of his hand reaches out to stroke the face of his unwitting beloved. The word

On Sept. 5, 1972, a 32-year-old producer named Geoffrey S. Mason was working in a control room for ABC Sports in Munich while 12 hostages, including several members of the Israeli Olympic delegation, were being held in a building nearby. As Mason’s t

Very rarely does the right movie arrive at precisely the right time, at a moment when compassion is in short supply and the collective human imagination has come to feel shrunken and desiccated. Jacques Audiard’s operatic musical Emilia Pérez is the

You don’t have to love opera to love Maria Callas. Her voice reflected all the colors of paradise, before Adam and Eve were kicked out. Her beauty was halfway between mythical and mischievous, as if she’d been drawn by the gods’ caricaturist-in-chief

Muncie Daniels is just trying to make his voice heard over the cacophony that passes for public discourse. An ambitious CNN commentator, the protagonist of the conspiracy thriller series The Madness (now streaming on Netflix) has been neglecting his

Interior Chinatown was published in early 2020. How did everything that’s happened since impact how you wrote the TV adaptation? We started a writers room over Zoom in 2022, and it was really on our minds how the world in which we’d all see each othe