On a recent morning, Catharine Dahm ducked into Raf’s, the French-Italian bakery and restaurant on a pocket-size block of Elizabeth Street in downtown Manhattan. It was her first time there, but before the check had even arrived, she was resolved to return. “This is going to be my regular spot while I’m here,” said Ms….
Hanging from a ladder attached to the hull of a giant, bobbing tanker, Capt. Efraín Hallax began his climb up to the crew awaiting him atop the Athina, a ship anchored in Panama Bay and third in line to transit the Panama Canal. The daunting ascent up the shifting ship was nothing new for Captain…
Carrying his 6-year-old daughter on his shoulders, Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party leader running to lead Canada, was wading through a crowd of well-wishers in his electoral district in Ottawa. “Hey, there he is, Mr. Alexander!” he said, gripping the hand of Mark Alexander, whose dairy farm the politician had visited 21 years ago on…
La pianista Martha Argerich acababa de dar una interpretación electrizante en una noche nevada en el norte de Suiza. Sus admiradores hacían fila entre bastidores para pedirle autógrafos, y sus amigos llevaban rosas y crisantemos a su camerino. Pero Argerich, quien a sus 83 años sigue siendo una de los pianistas más asombrosas del mundo…
Melissa Samuel is a specialty nail artist behind the brand Finesse Your Claws, which she runs from her private studio in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. Ms. Samuel, 41, designs bespoke 3-D nail sets for a closed client roster that has included the singer SZA, the rapper Lil Yachty and the singer Justine Skye. (And…
A foul cell in a Moscow detention center was about the last place an American businessman named Michael Calvey expected to find himself after spending 25 years building a flourishing venture capital firm in Russia that transformed some tech startups into global brands. First, beefy agents from the F.S.B., the federal security service, ransacked his…
When Iichi Marumo competed in his first international race seven years ago in Moscow, the Japanese speedskater moved down the ice at about the pace of a brisk jog. It took him three times longer to cross the finish line than most of the other skaters that day. It didn’t matter, because Mr. Marumo was…
One recent evening, Sandra Demontigny tried to write down when she would die. “I sat down in a corner with a candle next to me, just to create my own bubble, to think and to cry a little,” she said. She had reflected on this moment for years, desperately hoped for it, fought tirelessly for…
When Vice President JD Vance criticized his German hosts last week for sidelining far-right parties, he did not mention by name the Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD. But soon after his speech at the Munich Security Conference, in which he stunned the room by comparing democracy in today’s Europe to Soviet-era totalitarianism, Mr….
Pete Marocco has spent much of this month hunkered in an office suite on the seventh floor of the State Department overseeing the dismantling of the architecture for how the United States delivers foreign aid. But he did have time to greet a foreign guest who had been making the rounds in Washington during the…