The money has restored coral reefs in the Seychelles, helped create a national park in Vietnam and turned former guerrillas into tour guides in Colombia. It has established tiger conservation programs, and brought back wildlife to areas decimated by bloody civil unrest. All those are among the surprising programs affected by the Trump administration’s possible…
Just after 8:43 p.m. on Jan. 29, an air traffic controller at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, posed a question to the pilots of American Airlines Flight 5342: Could they land at a different runway? There was nothing unusual about the request or the pilots’ assent to it. But the decision to switch runways…
On Thursday, just as the fashion world was gathering in New York for its ready-to-wear shows, Gucci added yet more uncertainty to an already tumultuous industry by announcing that the designer Sabato De Sarno was leaving. He had been at Gucci only two years and was scheduled to unveil his spring collection in Milan on…
There’s so much going on in the next four weeks, between the Super Bowl; the continued rollout of awards season, culminating in the Oscars on March 2; and whatever shock and awe President Trump unleashes, that it’s hard to imagine how fashion shows will carve out any space in the attention economy. As if on…
Growing up, Kyle Smith did not like sports. “I was scared of the boys in sports,” said Mr. Smith, 31, who is gay. He described himself as the type of teen who was way more interested in watching “The September Issue,” the documentary about the inner workings of Vogue. Mr. Smith, who was born in…
For a window into the soul of a city, take a stroll along the waterfront: Think of the Seine walkways in Paris, the Copacabana promenade in Rio or the Charles River Esplanade in Boston. Or the nearly 14-mile palm-fringed ribbon called La Rambla, in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. One of the longest sidewalks in…
Shae Watson, left, and Kat Randolph were going to see an exhibition about the choreographer Alvin Ailey at the Whitney Museum when I saw them on Little West 12th Street in Manhattan’s meatpacking district on a Sunday afternoon in January. I was captivated by the layered outfits they had assembled, which had distinct sensibilities and…
Wow, things have really gotten out of proportion. Inflation is everywhere. That’s often how life seems in the morning. On Monday evening, at the New York Public Library, Marc Jacobs simply gave some shape to the situation and put it on the runway. In the third of what might be called his show series of…
Extra nights in cushy hotel suites, free premium air travel and even stays on private islands. Loyalty points and frequent flier miles, when strategically collected, can fund trips well beyond a traveler’s usual expectations and budget. But it isn’t easy to get these deals. Luckily for us, there’s an entire universe of experts who share…
It would have been understandable — even natural — if the attendees of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards had decided to go subdued. If they had opted to appear toned down and quietly respectful of the trauma still being visited on Los Angeles in the wake of the wild fires, in simple black suits and equally…