Guest Essays

Now is our chance to rethink the centuries-old stories we’ve told about obesity and weight loss.

Before you decide to speak out about wrongdoing, you have to recognize it for what it is.

It does not have to be this way.

In the fractured, misunderstood world outside our windows, a cicada emergence is a gift, a reminder that we have not yet destroyed it all.

Politics is a competition to dominate. Liberals have their own tradition of it — and they should embrace it.

Anxiety about China is making American policymakers react in paranoid, repressive ways.

The conductor Daniel Barenboim explores the political and spiritual power of what many consider the greatest symphony.

We must be able to create a more civic-minded internet, with tools that would empower users to better control what they see.

Have you heard the advice to go where you can see yourself? Ignore it.

Three terms in, she’s exiting her political adolescence and coming into her own as a veteran operator.

Our biggest mistake would be to believe that Trumpism is a historical exception.

The U.S. is losing its terror-fighting presence in Africa. That’s not a bad thing if Washington uses the development to help African governments deliver more to their citizens.

The Staten Island branch of St. John’s University is more than just a school.

When authorities are seen as corrupt, we celebrate those who defy them.

These spaces have historically been tied to exclusion and injustice, but we can cultivate them to be ethical and environmentally beneficial.

The plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda promises to be an exercise in cruelty.

The oldest president is in big trouble with the youngest voters, especially men.

We need to start aggressively testing dairy workers for bird flu to safeguard their health as well as ours — now.

Getting into a selective college has always been a source of anxiety and stress for students, but this year seemed like academic Hunger Games.

Here we are, watching the narrow, tawdry version of the trial the nation ought to have had 50 years ago.

The Cybertruck looks edgy, that’s for sure, but it has serious problems.

She was a poet who didn’t write poetry, but felt it like a poet.

Though the notion would have been laughable a decade ago, Michigan is one promising national model for how state-level activists can retake power.

If old-school public-service journalism can make it anywhere, it can make it here.

With its TikTok bill, Congress sent a message to the world: You cannot disregard basic internet norms and expect to be treated like any other country.

Boring as it may sound, it is a case about business integrity.

Chinese pride and triumphalism have given way to malaise in the post-Covid era.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and his Liberal Party are facing increasing unpopularity in an era of right-wing ascendancy.

We live in a complex world. We can’t afford to make art that serves up only simple moral lessons.

Radical Christians are working to erase L.G.B.T.Q. visibility from schools and ultimately, South Korean society.

Instead of continuing the environmental legacy they were once known for, Republicans have ceded the fight against climate change to Democrats.

Turning the page on the man — and on the politics he has fostered — will require fundamentally changing the text of our founding document.

Motherhood often feels at odds with a research career.

To win a political campaign, you want to put your candidate in a setting that provides a chance to excel. For Trump, that’s the trial.

A ruling in the emergency abortion case heard at the high court on Wednesday could turn out abortion rights supporters to the polls.

A visit to Ukraine and Russia would allow my son to see that his mother’s native language wasn’t a quirk of hers but something normal for millions of people.

Skepticism and distrust of health practitioners is on the rise. How are doctors supposed to restore patient trust?

It is difficult, if not impossible, to attempt to counter polarization at a time when partisan sectarianism is intense and pervasive.

The new alliance structure Washington is pursuing in Asia won’t guarantee peace and stability — and may raise the risk of stumbling into a conflict.

The court’s delay may have stripped citizens of the criminal justice system’s most effective mechanism for determining disputed facts: a trial.

We need history to support our foundations. But it can only do that with integrity if it exposes the failings.

Will the court go out of its way to disregard statutory language and create ambiguity where none exists?

It’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up. But it’s still a highly flawed case.

Moldova is a cautionary tale for Ukraine.

Ironically, the most conservative voices in the House are getting shut out.

We have become so separate from the natural world that we don’t feel safe in the presence of well maintained trees.

“Saving the planet” is the wrong goal.

She has seen the deep state up close and knows what needs to be done.

Giorgia Meloni is the model for the continent’s far right.

If delay prevents this Trump case from being tried this year, our system may never hold the man most responsible for Jan. 6 to account.