Over eight episodes, Ms. Clarkson’s character is revealed to be much more than just a domineering matriarch.

Patricia Clarkson’s Role on ‘Sharp Objects’ Cut Deep

The e-cigarette company says it never sought teenage users, but the F.D.A. is investigating whether Juul intentionally marketed its devices to youth.

Did Juul Lure Teenagers and Get ‘Customers for Life’?

Seven different women have won the last seven Grand Slam titles. They are discovering that a return trip to the champion’s podium is strewn with obstacles.

Sloane Stephens and the Art of Defending

Champagne and cake? Try chai and samosas: A bride-to-be returns to India to shop for her wedding in a bumpy, smog-filled trip, in-laws in tow.

From Ride Share to Rickshaw: Wedding-Shopping Adventures in India

The automaker, which was humbled after falsifying emissions data, still has work to do to protect potential whistle-blowers, according to its U.S. monitor.

Volkswagen’s Effort to Stop Scandals Needs More Work, Report Says

The preliminary agreement is a major step for President Trump, who has threatened to scrap Nafta. But Canada’s role is just one of many issues that remain unresolved.

Trump Reaches Revised Trade Deal With Mexico, Threatening to Leave Out Canada

Picasso’s former lover and muse has a philosophy formed by nine decades of living. And forgetting.

In a New Book of Sketches, Françoise Gilot Clears Her Mind of the Past

The president broke a period of silence by issuing a proclamation to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff until the day of John McCain’s interment.

Trump Relents Under Pressure, Offering ‘Respect’ to McCain

Maybe the answer isn’t something big, a group of economists is suggesting, but rather many small tweaks, such as reining in long-term care hospitals. 

How to Tame Health Care Spending? Look for One-Percent Solutions

In his new novel, “Lake Success,” the author tells the story of a hedge-fund guy who loses everything in order to find himself.

Gary Shteyngart Is Back, on the Road and Still a Master of Dislocation

Despite an international agreement, U.S. health authorities still have not received H7N9 avian flu specimens from their Chinese counterparts.

China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus

Francis Fukuyama’s “Identity” and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s “The Lies That Bind” examine the role of personal identity in our modern age.

What Is Identity?

Two new books — “The Splintering of the American Mind,” by William Egginton, and “The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt — warn of the threat to the country’s political and social well-being by a fractured generation convinced of its fragility.

Does Our Cultural Obsession With Safety Spell the Downfall of Democracy?

After deciding not to try to remove its shares from the market, the electric carmaker must focus on some stubborn challenges while facing new ones.

Elon Musk and Tesla Resolved One Issue. Now for the Rest.

Rudolph Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, offered the first detailed look at his strategy for representing the president, in blunt and divisively political terms.

In Defending Trump, Is Giuliani a Shrewd Tactician or ‘Untethered’?

A gunman who fatally shot two young men at a video gaming tournament in Florida appears to have targeted his fellow gamers, the authorities said.

E-Sports World Is Rocked as Gunman ‘Clearly Targeted Other Gamers’

So far, economists see only faint effects of the new tax law in housing prices. The predicted carnage hasn’t materialized. 

The Trump Tax Cuts Were Supposed to Depress Housing Prices. They Haven’t. 

What happens next is unclear, but the case will likely be appealed to the Supreme Court, which has never ruled a partisan gerrymander to be unconstitutional.

North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Gerrymandered Congressional Map. Again.

Pierre Hache, who performs as Kiddy Smile, is taking the energy and inclusive spirit of Paris ball culture to the masses — and even to the presidential palace.

‘Son of Immigrants, Black and Gay’: A D.J. Breaks Barriers in France

A slew of new productions about The Times (or inspired by Times reporting) are on the way; for now, enjoy these classics.

Five Films That Go Inside The New York Times

Co-op shareholders have to pay for common elements like water, but what happens when one of them is using it to irrigate a private oasis? 

Why Am I Paying for My Neighbor’s Roof Garden?

New projects in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Columbus Circle, bring British chefs and restaurateurs to New York.

London Flavors Head West

By experimenting with tiny textures, scientists may have found a technique that could save the shipping industry billions of dollars each year. 

A New Trick to Keep Barnacles From Sticking to Ships

The Queens Democratic Party machine seemed to be nominating candidates without their consent. I needed to find them. But how? 

‘I Tried to Think Like a Corrupt Party Hack’

Modern brown bears are carrying a bit of genetic material passed down from the cave bear, in a study that suggests extinction does not always vanquish a species’ genes. 

August 27, 2018

Headlines from August 27, 2018

Patricia Clarkson’s Role on ‘Sharp Objects’ Cut Deep

Did Juul Lure Teenagers and Get ‘Customers for Life’?

Sloane Stephens and the Art of Defending

From Ride Share to Rickshaw: Wedding-Shopping Adventures in India

Volkswagen’s Effort to Stop Scandals Needs More Work, Report Says

Billboard 200

ASTROWORLD

Queen

Scorpion

Life's A Trip

beerbongs & bentleys

Historical Context for August 27, 2018