Clay Risen

Through his Slow Food organization, he spurred a worldwide shift toward sustainability and thoughtful cuisine.

His dive bar became famous thanks to Mike Royko’s columns, a baseball curse and a “Saturday Night Live” skit.

With towering hairdos and perfect harmonies, she and her cousins Ronnie and Estelle brought a fresh edge to the girl-group sound in hits like “Be My Baby.”

He was renowned for his skill at capturing candid scenes of penguins, polar bears and other cold-weather creatures — and for his ability to tolerate extreme discomfort.

A lifelong New Yorker and longtime City Council member, she opposed Robert Moses’s wrecking ball, championed historic preservation and fought for women’s and gay rights.

A former New York cabdriver who never lost his edge, he was co-publisher alongside Mort Zuckerman as he took on rival papers in the so-called tabloid wars.

A Russian-born director, he created a film about New Wave models and killer aliens in 1980s New York, helping to reshape independent filmmaking in America.

By leveraging social media and the influencer economy, he turned his website into a byword for online pornography in the 21st century.

The Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, is shunned in federal politics but is a regional force. This fall, it could win broader power for the first time.

A chance encounter in Brooklyn led to a decades-long project following the boys’ lives, from childhood to national prominence as critics of President Trump.

As a historian and diplomat, he gave intellectual shape to his people and made sure that they played a role in negotiating their future.

He served in the Special Forces, led a postwar raid to find P.O.W.s and became a voice of the right-wing anti-government fringe.

With his acclaimed interpretations of Delta Blues standards, he was a fixture on the Greenwich Village music scene for decades.

He helped bring the African American cooking of the Carolina Lowcountry to the world and became known as the “dean of Southern Cuisine.”