Guest Essays

Money-strapped millennials, inflation and the tough economics of the restaurant business have birthed a wait-in-line dining culture.

The intolerance in the LGBTQ+ community for nuanced views of the war in Gaza is not what the rainbow flag stands for.

It’s time to use warning labels to steer people away from food that’s bad for them.

There is widespread agreement, even in museums, that questionable pieces in collections should be returned. But returned to whom?

The president had a bad night, but the fundamentals of this race have not changed.

An alternative photographic history of the Pride march shows that real belonging starts in the crowd, where people find refuge and community.

The court swept aside a precedent that endangers countless regulations — and transfers power from the executive branch to Congress and the courts.

Everyone in our system, including judges and members of Congress, will be nudged to do their proper constitutional work.

Schools ground migrant children and their families when everything else — the language, the city, the culture, the people — is brand-new.

The international community must insist on reversing the restriction of Afghan women’s and girls’ rights and on women’s meaningful participation in decision making.

The celebrated show is both a product of our unhealthy obsession with toxic restaurant culture and a potential remedy for it.

To win on Thursday, Biden will have to override his instincts and defy the constraints and conventions of presidential debates.

It’s impossible to see the court’s decision upholding a law disarming domestic abusers as anything but an exercise in institutional self-preservation.

Both parties are changing shape. What should they do about it?

Two political experts weigh in on what it might take to succeed.

We believe the prime minister is driving Israel downhill at an alarming speed, to the extent that we may eventually lose the country we love.

Our kids’ lingo is not only better than any we used; it’s a useful window into the way they think.

Universities that cataloged election lies and disinformation are being targeted with the same tactics they sought to uncover.

Thursday’s debate is time to preach to the choir.

Going head-to-head with the former president is like juggling nonsense, blather and bluster.

I’ve studied voter reaction and opinions about every presidential debate since 1992. This is what to do and not to do.

Saying goodbye to Rascal, the little rescue dog gone too soon.

The modest campaign created an opening for today’s anti-L.G.B.T.Q. backlash.

We live in an age when people can live longer and healthier even with significant health conditions. What does this mean for future presidents?

The island’s power crisis illustrates the consequences of putting essential services in the hands of a private entity.

A pop diva inspires and unites fans in ways that few other cultural figures can. Which is why we should all be rooting for Celine Dion.

He has the lowest level of corporate support in the history of the Republican Party.

It is looking more and more like a project to universalize the un-universalizable.

What are we to do with this privileged pop star?

Imagining what comes next in the Republican effort to spread the Christian word.

Olympic hopefuls are a group of exceptional people held together by athletic tape and hope, who leap without sight of where they will land.

Laws aren’t keeping pace with the risks climate change poses to workers laboring under sweltering conditions.

Rubio would offer Latinos the chance to vote for one of their own to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

We had a chance to treat sex categories in sports with curiosity and compassion instead of condemnation. We still can.

The administration should have a consistent vision on immigration instead of ping-ponging between border harshness and beneficial half measures for some of the undocumented.

They need to stop accepting short-term victories.

In a second Trump presidency, expect a return to backroom lobbying deals that favor well-financed companies and countries and exclude everyone else.

It shouldn’t take so long for the justices to consider an outlandish claim.

What does the rise of partisan sectarians portend for the rest of us?

Compulsory labor with little or no compensation should be unthinkable.

Glenn Kramon discusses the coincidences that led him to realize how critical immigration was to his recent cancer battle.

Here’s who needs to worry right now.

Invoking Nazis and pogroms in discussing the Hamas attacks is wrong and offensive and helps the Israeli government avoid responsibility for its failures.

Everything Donald Trump knows about picking a running mate in 2024 he learned while hosting “The Apprentice.”

There were no trees. There was no road. I was the trees, and I was the road. That darkness was like no darkness I’ve ever known.

Hospital outpatient departments, or HOPDs, are encouraging a surprise scourge on medical costs. It’s patients who bear the burden.

It’s time for decisive action to protect our young people.

They are breaking the compact between ordinary people and those in whom power is vested.

Listening to the stories of voters on their thresholds, we felt their need to trust.

New challenges to the Supreme Court’s image of probity and detachment seem to keep coming.

Many parents see themselves in the president’s affection for his son.

New science reveals parenting is transformative for men.

To win a union campaign, workers need a strong organizing committee and a hammer to enforce the right to organize. The law is not that hammer.

The experience of living with my father’s dementia ranged from tragic to tragicomic to vaudevillian, often within the span of a few minutes.

After a profound national rupture, forgiveness may be impossible. But the long-overlooked act of oblivion could offer a solution.

“When you live in the past, the people around you hate you, don’t understand and don’t accept you,” Valentyna Odnoviu wrote.

A secret file kept on my dad is now a reminder of a man who, even under pressure, stayed true to his beliefs.

A politician’s defamation case against a small Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization is designed to drain its financial resources.

In Cimarron County, Okla., the voters and the community have a lot more going on than just adherence to Trump.

A peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine will stop the killing and in the long run make Ukraine better able to defend itself and democracy.

His remarks should not have been controversial.

The leading companies are co-opting Silicon Valley’s traditional cycle of disruption.

The U.S. Treasury secretary explains why America and its allies should unlock the value of Russian capital immobilized at the start of the war to give Ukraine the financing it needs.

In calling snap elections, Emmanuel Macron has taken a dangerous gamble.

It was never going to be easy to get voters to abandon their hero.

Factory farming increases the risks for epidemics.

A cease-fire deal in Gaza might halt a war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Success isn’t an Instagrammable skyline.

Tesla shareholders must reject the chief executive’s unorthodox compensation package to help turn him back into the visionary we need to fight climate change.

Never has the country looked less like a leader and more like the head of a faction.

It has nothing to do with law or politics.

Only one approach is likely to hold out anything more than the slimmest of hopes for the former president.

When I met Morgan Spurlock, he was trying to make amends. What I saw changed how I think about #MeToo.

Progressives need to stop thinking of family as a conservative hobbyhorse.

Nevadans’ unhappiness with the economy is driving Trump’s support in the state.

We are turning to the lessons of the interfaith leaders of the civil rights movement.

The Unabomber personified how we use the West as a mirror for the dark, untamed aspects of our national character.

No matter what seemingly hopeless mess you have made, everything can still work out.

For months now, he has been spinning his tale of tyranny and martyrdom, styling himself as the victim of an administration that plays dirty.

The return of pandas to our zoos means more to Americans than just a burst of fleeting joy.

A man reflects on his mother’s life with Alzheimer’s and what it has taught him as he faces his own diagnosis with the disease.

As the country becomes increasingly divided, Brownsville comes together.

In a democracy, how far is too far?

A more flexible and sophisticated design might have saved the program from widespread criticism.

Shari Redstone will decide the fate of Paramount and the future of some of America’s most recognized cultural icons.

A congestion pricing plan years in the making was suddenly postponed, threatening mass transit and ensuring continued traffic nightmares.

On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we are forgetting the lessons of World War II.

How voters will react to a candidate’s sentencing is fraught with uncertainty.

A “polluters must pay” law would compensate the state for damages and the costs of preparing for future impacts from warming weather.

How harm reduction can work in a red state.