My husband and I have been together since 1976. We have not always lived together, and we haven’t pledged to be monogamous. But neither have we had an ‘‘open marriage’’ or been promiscuous. An occasional fling when we have been traveling separately has been pretty satisfying. Recently I discovered emtricitabine …

The world is an unstable place. Whether it’s politics, your career or the appropriate length for jeans — the ground is constantly shifting. And if the world feels unstable long enough, your mind and body can enter a perpetual state of high alert. The psychological experience of this anxiety can …

Nora Hayd’s eyeliner traced a dramatic path from her tear ducts to her eyebrow piercings. Her bangs were dyed hot pink, and a septum ring dangled from her nose. In other words, she was ready for her college beach volleyball team’s photo shoot. “That makeup is not my full makeup …

Dangling my feet over the bank of a fast-running creek, I watched the sunlight filter through a leafy canopy above me. Here, in the middle of a city of three million people, I felt utterly alone, and though I was loath to admit it, a little disoriented. But that was …

The blood dripping from the bathroom faucet was the first sign that something was wrong. A few days later, Alexandra Hardie saw cockroaches scuttle from beneath the bed. Soon, she noticed spiders crawling up the wall. One day in May 2016, four months after giving birth to her first child, …

Follow the latest updates on Hurricane Milton. Hurricane Milton lashed the western coast of Florida with 120-mile-per-hour winds upon making landfall on Wednesday evening just south of Sarasota. The storm, which formed only four days before landfall, became one of the most intense hurricanes on record in the Gulf of …

The air is crisp, and the leaves are bursting into vivid hues. Maybe you’re planning a road trip to admire the beauty. But getting your fill of fall foliage from behind the wheel can turn into an awkward juggle between admiring the vistas and navigating traffic. If you hop on …

This article is from a special report on the Athens Democracy Forum, which gathered experts last week in the Greek capital to discuss global issues. A year ago, during the 2023 Democracy Forum in Athens, Namatai Kwekweza was awarded the Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy prize for her pro-democracy and feminist …

A pro-Palestinian student group gathered to mourn the lives lost in the war in Gaza on Monday, following a federal judge’s ruling last week against the University of Maryland’s plan to block it. The court battle over the vigil and other events at Maryland was unusual, but universities across the …

New York City “regularly fails” to provide special education services to students with disabilities, leading to chronic absences, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Legal Aid Society. The suit seeks to confront a pervasive problem in the city’s school system, the nation’s largest. Tens of thousands of …