Nearly a Million Children Left Behind in Venezuela as Parents Migrate
Seven years into an economic crisis, mothers and fathers have been forced to go abroad in search of work, leaving hundreds of thousands of children in the hands of relatives, friends — and sometimes, one another.
The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only With Harsh Steps, Experts Say
Public health officials, scientists, and epidemiologists say that the coronavirus can be stopped by using rapid adaptive measures by health workers and cooperation from the general population.
The Man Who Won’t Let the World Forget the Firebombing of Tokyo
Part of the paper’s “Beyond the World War II We Know” series.
The Diet Industrial Complex Got Me, and It Will Never Let Me Go
There’s participating in the body positivity movement and then there’s actual body positivity, and one’s a lot harder — impossible, for some — than the other.
The Original Renegade
A 14-year-old ninth grader from the Atlanta suburbs created a dance called The Renegade that exploded on communities like TikTok. The only problem is that Harmon saw her creation take on a life of its own without any acknowledgement.
The Chaos at Condé Nast
Responding to Details editor Dan Peres’s new recovery memoir, Katherine Rosman casts a jaundiced eye upon the lax culture and unquestioned expense accounts at Conde Nast Publications that allowed Peres (and several of his colleagues, who also have tell-alls in the works) to get away with gross acts of self-indulgence and mistreatment of their employees.
Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later. He Had One Question.
The heart-warming story of Holocaust survivors David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, young lovers at Auschwitz, who got to meet one last time before she died at 100 last year. At the meeting, “Zippi,” as she was known then, revealed she’d used her position as a privileged inmate and a graphic designer at the camp five times to keep Wisnia from being shipped to a worse camp.
The Champion Who Picked a Date to Die
How Belgian gold-medal winning paralympic sprinter Marieke Vervoort gained the ultimate control over a debilitating and painful degenerative muscle condition that began when she was a teen with a tingling sensation in her feet.
The Class of 2000 ‘Could Have Been Anything’
How Racism Ripples Through Rural California’s Pipes
Race and economic class have everything to do with who gets fresh water and who does not.