Watching the banking industry descend into turmoil is unnerving. But unless your financial goals have changed, embrace inaction.

A Question About Your Money: Has Anything Truly Changed This Week?

Conversations with dozens of Iraqis offer a portrait of a nation that is rich in oil, hobbled by corruption and unable to guarantee its citizens’ safety.

20 Years After U.S. Invasion, Iraq Is a Freer Place, but Not a Hopeful One

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank set major financial disruptions in motion. It also made one founder’s week a scramble.

48 Hours Till Payroll, $200,000 to Go: Diary of a Bank Failure

In her new novel, “Biography of X,” Lacey dreams up a larger-than-life, narcissistic artist, and rewrites American history to tell her story.

She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway.

The opening night of the star’s Eras Tour traversed her 10-album career, revisiting crossover hits, rowdier experiments and more restrained singer-songwriter material.

Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage

The growing season has become completely reversed thanks to kerosene-burning greenhouses and the big prices paid for the earliest, best berries.

The Secret Behind Japan’s Delicious Strawberries: Kerosene

As the families seek more than $1.4 billion awarded by courts for Mr. Jones’s lies, a New York Times review shows he is transferring millions of dollars to family and friends, potentially out of reach of creditors.

Sandy Hook Families Are Fighting Alex Jones and the Bankruptcy System Itself

A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.

A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election

Quotation of the Day for Saturday, March 18, 2023.

Quotation of the Day: Shriver’s Very Personal Fight to End Coaches’ Sexual Abuse of Players

The landlord says an appraiser, who is white, used unfair comparisons to assess the worth of his apartment building.

A Landlord Got a Low Appraisal. He Is Black, and So Are His Tenants.

Wendy Kaplan takes her daughter for a bicycle ride and then for dinner at her workplace, where there is always a busy kitchen.

How the Head of a Shelter for Young L.G.B.T.Q. Adults Spends Sundays

Gary Cantrell, the mastermind behind the Barkley Marathons, is in a race of his own: against time.

Life Isn’t Fair. He Didn’t Want This Race to Be, Either.

Sometimes simply filing a lawsuit is enough to lure a person to the negotiating table. But you have to find them first.

My Tenant Split Without Paying the Rent. What Are My Options?

Grant Brace, 20, died after he begged for water during a practice at the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky, according to a lawsuit brought by his family.

University to Pay $14 Million After a Wrestler’s Heat Stroke Death

Milder winters, shrinking habitats and new migratory patterns have changed the birds of the city.

What Does a Black Vulture Over Manhattan Mean for Climate Change?

If someone is actually violating a dress code, let H.R. handle. Otherwise, let it go.

Their Body, Their Choice of Undergarments

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India is building roads while also dangerously corroding democracy.

He’s the World’s Most Popular Leader. Beware.

It boils down to cultural and psychological project.

What It Means to Be Woke

Although Ukrainians excel at putting up a brave front, a tremendous amount of suffering is being kept bottled up and sometimes bursts out.

In Stoic Ukraine, Stony Faces Are Starting to Crack and to Cry

They got lost in this weird moment, where the world is caught between crisis and normalcy, nostalgic for house parties — and Houseparty, too.

Where Did All Your Zoom Friends Go?

Long, strong and bold, coats ruled the runways this season — so much so that we’re making our shopping list early.

24 Coats We Want From the Recent Fashion Shows

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia marked the anniversary of his illegal seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula, signaling defiance to the world and business as usual to his own people.

Putin Visits Occupied Crimea, a Day After War-Crimes Warrant

Banking is a critical form of public infrastructure that we pretend is a private act of risk management.

Can We Slow This All Down, Please?

The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin highlights a practice that the Kremlin has not concealed and says will continue.

Russia Signals It Will Take More Ukrainian Children, a Crime in Progress

In a career that began in 1960, the Puerto Rico-born Mr. Vega became, one admirer said, “the architect of Hispanic radio at a global level.”

March 18, 2023

Headlines from March 18, 2023

A Question About Your Money: Has Anything Truly Changed This Week?

20 Years After U.S. Invasion, Iraq Is a Freer Place, but Not a Hopeful One

48 Hours Till Payroll, $200,000 to Go: Diary of a Bank Failure

She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway.

Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage

Billboard 200

One Thing At A Time

SOS

Manana Sera Bonito

Red Moon In Venus

Midnights

Historical Context for March 18, 2023