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Tanya Dohoney has worked on sustainability initiatives for decades. A retired attorney from Texas now living in Paris, she even started the recycling program for her workplace. When it comes to travel, she also values environmentally and socially responsible companies, which led her to choose Intrepid Travel, a certified B Corp company, for a tour in Morocco in 2019.The sheer number of sustainability certifications for the travel and tourism industry is almost overwhelming and certainly confusing. Certified B Corp enterprises must meet standards set by B Lab, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit founded in 2006 that awards for-profit companies with certifications for…

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday on whether the Biden administration violated the First Amendment in combating what it said was misinformation on social media platforms.It is the latest in an extraordinary series of cases this term requiring the justices to assess the meaning of free speech in the internet era.The case arose from a barrage of communications from administration officials urging platforms to take down posts on topics like the coronavirus vaccines, claims of election fraud and Hunter Biden’s laptop. Last year, a federal appeals court severely limited such interactions.Alex Abdo, a lawyer with the Knight First…

“That was a lovely moment that Andy intuited and put together,” Gibney said. “The contrast between that love and then the bitterness laid over that sweet moment captured in a poetic way the ebb and flow of time and memory, happiness and sadness, all rolled into one.”According to Simon, the inspiration for “Seven Psalms” came to him in a dream in 2019. Gibney filmed him as he rehearsed and recorded the album in Wimberley, Austin, Houston and New York, directed singers and instrumentalists, and sang alongside his wife, the musician Edie Brickell.The filmmakers also pored through hundreds of hours of…

President Biden on Sunday used what is normally a festive St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House to acknowledge the growing international concern, including among the Irish, over the humanitarian situation of Palestinians amid Israel’s military action in Gaza.“The taoiseach and I agree about the urgent need to increase humanitarian aid in Gaza and get the cease-fire deal,” Mr. Biden said alongside Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, or taoiseach, an outspoken critic of Israel’s war against Hamas in response to the Oct. 7 terrorist attack. As hundreds of Irish American leaders and government staff members applauded, Mr. Biden said…

The Kremlin stage-managed Russia’s presidential vote over the weekend to send a singular message at home and abroad: that President Vladimir V. Putin’s support is overwhelming and unshakable, despite or even because of his war against Ukraine.From the moment the preliminary results first flashed across state television late Sunday, the authorities left no room for misinterpretation. Mr. Putin, they said, won more than 87 percent of the vote, his closest competitor just 4 percent. It had all the hallmarks of an authoritarian Potemkin plebiscite.The Kremlin may have felt more comfortable orchestrating such a large margin of victory because Mr. Putin’s…

After five months of regular season and conference tournament play, we have finally reached our best stretch of the year.March Madness is right around the corner and it’s going to be another exciting NCAA tournament.With a 32-0 record, South Carolina seemed like an easy choice to make the championship game, but we thought so last year too. The No. 1 seeds — Iowa State, USC and Stanford — will look to make deep runs to challenge the Gamecocks.As in previous years, injuries will play a role in the NCAA Tournament, and three-time ACC Player of the Year Elizabeth Kitley’s knee…

I am currently a senior in college, and I have put on a little weight, which means I’m not fitting into some of my pants as I used to. I’m happy with how I look and have no desire to change my weight, but I have some really cute pants that I hesitate to get rid of in case I can fit into them in the future. At what point are they just taking up closet space? Should I just say goodbye? — Peter, Ithaca, N.Y.To keep or not to keep one’s old clothes as one proceeds through life —…

On a recent Tuesday night, around 20 people crowded into the second floor of Joniel Bon’s newly opened internet cafe in Quezon City, 10 miles from Manila. Seated at computers with 34-inch curved monitors, they began playing video games such as Heroes of Mavia and Nifty Island, as music from Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 hummed from the speakers.Playing these games can be a full-time job, and some of Mr. Bon’s customers had settled in for the night with slices of pizza to fuel them. The games reward players with cryptocurrency tokens for completing small, daily challenges. Often, players convert…

Central Sardinia is not generally considered a hotbed of innovation: Arid and rural, some of its road signs riddled with bullet holes made by target-practicing locals, the setting recalls a Clint Eastwood western. Yet in Ottana, on the brownfield site of a former petrochemical plant, a new technology is taking shape that might help the world slow climate change. The key component of this technology is as unlikely as the remote location: carbon dioxide, the chief cause of global warming.Energy Dome, a start-up based in Milan, runs an energy-storage demonstration plant that helps to address a mismatch in the local…

Movies have been around for well over a century, and for roughly half that time, the American filmmaker Ernie Gehr has — playfully, thoughtfully, beautifully — shown us just how far out, exciting and liberating they can be.Gehr makes moving images that open your mind and pleasurably rearrange your thoughts. His movies tend to be short, have sound and, these days, were shot in digital. By conventional standards not a lot happens; they don’t tell stories per se, even if they say a great deal. What interests Gehr is light, energy, shape, color, rhythm, time, space and the medium’s plasticity.…