As White House Steers Justice Dept., Bondi Embraces Role of TV Messenger
Pam Bondi, the attorney general of the United States, circled the Roosevelt Room in late February, handing out bulky white binders labeled “Epstein Files: Phase 1” to a conclave of Trump-allied influencers summoned to the White House for their first …
Karma Comes for Kennedy
Like the divine intelligence of the universe, the list of reasons that the wellness influencer Casey Means should not be surgeon general is vast. For one thing, she never completed her medical residency. She’s said that she dropped out of her program …
When Getting Out of Jail Means a Deadly Walk Home
Rebecca Jaramillo stepped out of the Santa Fe jail and into the cold one night in January 2021. After two days in a cell, she was free, but no one was there to pick her up. So, with a snowstorm coming, she began the long walk toward town. The jail in …
Takeaways from Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever’s preseason: Will her quad injury linger?
Don’t expect Indiana’s rotation to be set until later in the season.
A Professor’s Final Gift to Her Students: Her Life Savings
In August 2021, a mysterious package from Sarasota, Fla., showed up in Nicole Archer’s mailbox in Manhattan. Dr. Archer hurried upstairs to her cramped Chelsea apartment with the thick envelope in hand and tore it open at her dining table, revealing …
What It Takes to Be a ‘Well Woman’
In her new book, “How to Be Well,” the writer Amy Larocca draws readers down a rabbit hole of serums, supplements and colonics. We know a lot of it doesn’t work. Why do we want it anyway?
A New Pope? Time to Make Cookies at This Queens Bakery.
Maria Notaro got to work as soon as Pope Leo XIV waved from the balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica.
Is the Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
Amy Larocca’s book “How to Be Well” dives deep into the global obsession with so-called health, and the companies that have profited from creating it.
How Much Are We Paying for Newsletters? $50, $100 … How About $3,000 a Year.
Em Hermann-Johnson had been following Anne Helen Petersen’s writing for years when, in 2020, Ms. Petersen quit her job at BuzzFeed News to write her newsletter, Culture Study, full time. “I didn’t hesitate to support her,” Ms. Hermann-Johnson, a 52 …