As the election nears, most pollsters are reporting responses from “likely voters.” The challenge is in figuring out who they are.In the flood of election polls you’ll see over the next few weeks, most polling groups will include responses from “likely voters.... More »
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As Aaron Sorkin’s political fantasy turns 25, its romance has aged better than its politics.“‘I am the Lord your God. Thou shalt worship no other god before me.’ Boy, those were the days, huh?”Thus do we meet President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen), Democrat o... More »
Original cast members look back at George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s staging of the 19th-century ballet. “Everyone knows when something is good,” one said.George Balanchine’s decision to stage the 19th-century ballet “Coppelia,” in 1974, was a surpris... More »
Candidates strive to be bold contrasts to their opponents. By that measure, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has been running a spectacularly successful campaign for governor of North Carolina, and the past several days were absolutely phenomenal.While his rival, Josh S... More »
As climate change brings water shortages to vacation hot spots, we look at Greece’s tourism-dependent islands, where residents sometimes compete with visitors for a dwindling supply.As a prolonged heat wave scorched Greece in mid-June, with temperatures reachi... More »
Activists and survivors are hopeful for change after the industry, which has a pervasive party culture, largely avoided the accountability that swept Hollywood and politics.The arrest of Sean Combs last week, on charges including sex trafficking and racketeeri... More »
On a beautiful Sunday morning in early September, dozens of young men in Waco, Texas, started their day at Grace Church.Men greeted visitors at the door, manned the information table and handed out bulletins. Four of the five musicians onstage were men. So was... More »
The Tower Records on Broad Street, the Borders bookstore on Chestnut, and the Kitchen Kapers boutique at the corner of Walnut and 17th Streets in Philadelphia: The playwright James Ijames shopped at all of them in the early 2000s while pursuing his M.F.A. at T... More »
The temperature drops perceptibly as Doug Bierton discreetly sweeps the bracelet on his left wrist over a wall-mounted sensor and enters the vault.Like access to this locked room, the climate inside it is strictly controlled. To the uninitiated, this might see... More »
It was a series of questions about tinned fish during a Saturday night dinner service that alerted Amanda Burton, a co-founder of Rooted Rotisserie in Baltimore, that this was an strange order — though she didn’t think it could be life-changing.Two young men h... More »
Plus: a new ski-in, ski-out hotel in the French Alps, titanium watches and more from T’s cultural compendium.People, Places, Things is a regular, essential news report on all things culture and style.Put a Scotch Egg on ItThe Hawaiian-inspired loco moco-style ... More »