Celebrity Life
Motherhood Could Have Cost Olympian Allyson Felix. She Wouldn’t Let It
Allyson Felix can still hear the screams. In late 2018, the six-time Olympic gold medalist was sitting in the neonatal intensive-care unit of a hospital outside Detroit, watching her weeks-old daughter fight for her life. Camryn, born premature at 32 weeks, was hooked up to monitors; an alarm would go off when doctors needed to…
Naomi Osaka: ‘It’s O.K. Not to Be O.K.’
'I felt under a great amount of pressure to disclose my symptoms because the press and the tournament did not believe me'
Breakfast with J.D. Vance, Anti-Trump Author Turned Pro-Trump Candidate
“I’m not just a flip-flopper, I’m a flip-flop-flipper on Trump,” J.D. Vance says with a laugh, slicing into a half-stack of breakfast pancakes. The Hillbilly Elegy author and newly minted Republican Senate candidate is sitting at the counter of a Cincinnati diner on July 2, explaining why he thinks he can win. The prior evening,…
A Controversial Ban on Commercial Surrogacy Could Leave Women in India With Even Fewer Choices
“They have a need. We also have a need. So what is wrong with this work?”
What the U.S. Can Learn About Health Care From This West Virginia County’s Successful Vaccine Rollout
Here are lessons for a better public health care system from the successful COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Kanawha County
From Cars to Toasters, America’s Semiconductor Shortage Is Wreaking Havoc on Our Lives. Can We Fix It?
Semiconductors drive the world, but America is running short on them. Can the country catch up?
How Dr. Becky Became the Millennial Parenting Whisperer
How Dr. Becky became an Instagram obsession for anxious millennials with kids
Actor Farhan Akhtar Pays Tribute to Legendary Sprinter Milkha Singh, India’s ‘Flying Sikh’
"Milkha Singh was a child of partition who came from poverty but he had a lot of faith in himself and the belief that if you work hard, you will be remembered. That, to me, is his legacy."
Minneapolis Police Were Cleared in the 2013 Killing of Terrance Franklin. A Video Complicates the Story—and Now the Case May Be Reopened
A long-overlooked video and its scratchy audio are key to demands that Terrance Franklin's shooting death by Minneapolis police in 2013 be re-examined
Simone Biles Is Already the Best Gymnast Ever. She’ll Be Even Better for Tokyo
When you’ve won seven national championships, 19 world titles, five Olympic medals (four of them gold), and your leotards are already decorated with a rhinestone goat (a nod to Greatest of All Time status), is there anything left to prove? For most people, the answer is no. But Simone Biles is not like most people,…
Why France’s Emmanuel Macron Should Be Worried About Next Year’s Elections
Following a three-month pandemic delay, French voters went to the polls on June 20 for the first round of local elections, which will fill the seats of assemblies in France’s 13 regions and 96 departments. There will be a second round of voting on June 27, but the electorate has already sent some clear messages.…
I’m Grateful for the Hugs I Can Now Share–and Haunted by the Ones I Can’t
I’m at the stage of pandemic life when I am still counting the hugs. The first time I invited a good friend not just over to but into my house, postvaccination, sans masks, I couldn’t even wait until she walked up to my door–I ran outside to greet her, and we tackle-hugged each other in…