Ice cream is one of life’s simplest and most enduring culinary pleasures. The first published recipe, which dates back to the 17th century, combined milk, water, sugar, and candied citron…

Aside from some brief written statements, the public has not heard directly from 84-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell since he fell at his home in Washington, D.C., and was taken away…

Did Anthony Fauci really get a text from Joan Baez, as his private diary suggests, wishing him a “happy fucking birthday” in the midst of the pandemic? Until now, the…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Until very recently, airplanes were one of the last places where you couldn’t…

You might know a tomato when you see one, but for the federal government, identifying one is harder. Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? In 1893, this question…

Photographs by Mikayla Whitmore On any other day when the high was forecast to be 108 degrees, Susie Tyson would not have left her Las Vegas apartment. The stroke she’d…

The fight against Ebola is not going well. Last week, the head of Africa CDC, Jean Kaseya, announced that the ongoing outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of…

In the western United States, particularly in fire-prone areas, people have become well versed at preparing to flee. They’re experts at using the tools and technology for monitoring a wildfire’s…

In parks, in backyards, in woods that are lovely, dark, and deep, a many-legged menace now stalks the land. I speak of ticks, and I come bearing absolutely no good…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is vocal about his view that Americans overuse psychiatric medications, particularly antidepressants. As a general rule, the Health and Human Services secretary is skeptical of pharmaceuticals,…