On a muggy summer afternoon in 2023, I was standing beside a pond with five near-strangers in their 40s and 50s. Before I knew what was happening, they all gave each other a nod of agreement, stripped ...

In 1971, a group of squatters took over a military base in Copenhagen and called their enclave "Christiania." Their plan was to break away from Denmark and its laws, to stop living under a ...

When Nancy Cogen opened a batik store on Atlantic Avenue’s antique row in Boerum Hill 41 years ago, it was a neighborhood of run-down rooming houses and communes, where a brownstone cost $25,000. The ...