Your Life at Home

Food

Perspective

How to make light, chewy, flavor-packed flour tortillas at home

7 quick, make-ahead lunch options for Zoom schoolers

Perspective

All my takeout has delivered a mountain of trash. So I asked experts how to minimize it.

6 spice blends to make at home, including garam masala, ras el hanout and Cajun seasoning

Arts & Entertainment

Movies

New movies to stream this week: ‘Roald Dahl’s The Witches,’ ‘Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You’ and more

Going Out Guide

The best things to do — virtually and in person — while quarantined in the D.C. area

Theater & Dance
Review

Binational playmaking takes exuberant, revealing form in the Russian-American ‘Flash Acts’

Going Out Guide

Museums, gardens and zoos are reopening across the region. Here’s what you can visit now.

Health & Wellness

Wellness

Stop wiping down groceries and focus on bigger risks, say experts on coronavirus transmission

Wellness

Colleges can be covid-19 hotspots. Here’s how to talk to your kid about safety.

Wellness

Conspiracy theories: Why some people are susceptible and how to protect yourself

Wellness

Should you get a coronavirus test if you think you have a cold? There may be ‘no right answer.’

Parenting

How to keep kids active as the weather cools and the pandemic rolls on

Covid-19 and child care: What the latest research says

Perspective

Covid-19 took away our family’s second home: The library

Perspective

School is reopening. Should my child go?

Home & Garden

Perspective

Planting bulbs offers a bit of hope for better things to come. Even this year.

Perspective

Confession from an organizer: My home isn’t picture-perfect

Can an air purifier help protect you against the coronavirus?

What do yarn, RVs, exercise gear and snowshoes share? They all could be hot winter buys.

Technology

Technology

Khan Academy’s Sal Khan shares advice for online learning: Do less, and turn off the camera

Consumer Tech
Review

I downloaded America’s first coronavirus exposure app. You should too.

Internet Culture

Inside Cameo, the app where Carole Baskin from ‘Tiger King’ will sing ‘In Da Club’ for $299

Consumer Tech
Perspective

Back-to-school laptop guide: Pandemic survival edition

Travel

Travel

Not all cabins close up for winter. Here are heated options for socially distant exploring.

Travel
Perspective

Is the government doing enough to protect air travelers?

Travel

Tired of the same old home office? Punch the clock in a hotel guest room.

Travel

A restless Virginia resident finds sights that evoke the West within driving distance

Special Report

Your money and the pandemic

More Coverage

Pop Culture
Perspective

For when the world is scarier than Halloween, these 12 streaming movies are simply a treat

Once you've watched "Hubie Halloween," why not return to classics like "Hocus Pocus" and "Halloweentown"?

By Sonia Rao
Oct 16

Travel

Vermont wants tourism back, safely. But will travelers play along?

Visitors are welcome — with a caveat — in the state with the lowest per-capita cases of coronavirus.

By Jen Rose Smith
Oct 15

Travel

How an old passport gave me the chance to recall a lifetime of adventures

My trip to Asia was supremely well-organized — maybe that should have been a red flag.

By Debra Bruno
Oct 15

Movies

New movies to stream this week: ‘Martin Eden,’ ‘Time,’ ‘Belly of the Beast’ and more

Watch these new movies from home.

By Michael O'Sullivan
Oct 15

Travel
Perspective

New ways to protect your 2021 vacation

Expanded insurance offerings and other changes offer travelers some peace of mind.

By Christopher Elliott
Oct 14

Wellness

What Day Is It? This newsletter can help you remember — and recover.

By Steven Johnson
Oct 14

In the hills of western Pennsylvania, a skeptical New Yorker gives glamping a try

What those studies on mouthwash and coronaviruses actually mean

An expatriate family returns to a 14-day quarantine in Jordan

How tour companies are changing to address travelers’ safety concerns