My husband and I have three children. This makes us many things: Proud, exhausted, delighted, occasionally irritated, perpetually anxious, often overwhelmed by love and strangely aware of the varying quality of chicken strips in grocery store freezer sections.... More »
“Are you leaving again? ” I asked my husband, Rob, as he packed for his second trip with the guys in three weeks.“Only for a few days.”I could sense the elation he felt in escaping. He was heading out to chase ski runs, and I was staying home, taking care of t... More »
GRANBURY, Texas — An American flag hung on the side of a barn and a country song about a working man played at Warren’s Backyard, a music venue, where on a searing summer evening, the Hood County Republicans met for an open bar and a silent auction to kick of... More »
It is a game involving the hottest league in America, yet the atmosphere on Figueroa is deathly cold.On a recent midweek night in September, Crypto.com Arena is truly a crypt.There are rows and rows of empty seats. Two people populate one entire section. Court... More »
In 1974, Dave Hodges was reconnecting with an old friend over a few beers when he realized that there was a shortage of hip establishments in North San Diego County. Rather than pursue a career in accounting, which he had just earned a degree in from the Unive... More »
There are other names, but this is the one we know: Amber Thurman has become the first woman whose death was preventable in relation to an abortion ban since Dobbs. Her name and story have become public as reporting by ProPublica’s Kavitha Surana details how T... More »
Apple released iOS 18 to the general public on Sept. 16, a week after the company announced its new iPhone 16 lineup, Apple Watch Series 10 and more at its September event. The update brings many new features to your iPhone, including RCS messaging and the abi... More »
Prepare to be shocked: At around the time J.D. Vance started dissembling about Haitians eating people’s house pets, a Vance campaign staffer privately spoke with the city manager of Springfield, Ohio, where thousands of Haitians have settled. The Wall Street J... More »
On her way to sing at a birthday party last month, Croatian pop star Severina Vučković was stopped and questioned about her political views by Serbian authorities. Around the same time, Aleksandar Matković started receiving death threats on Telegram. The first... More »
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. In February 2024, a broken utility pole brought down power lines near the small town of Stinnett, Texas. In the follow... More »
The work of Samuel D. Hunter might feel like a throwback, but his principal dramatic subject is a timeless one — human relationships.His plays track the myriad ways people reconfigure one another, at work, at home and in the local community. The malleability o... More »
We have some incredibly powerful telescopes that have given us spectacular views of the cosmos and allowed us to look back to the early days of the universe. These observatories, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), are amazing feats of engineering t... More »