Op-Ed Contributor Bon Appétit? Not So Fast PARIS — You know how a lovely family dinner can turn poisonous at the drop of an innocent comment? That happened at my house the other day. And it was as simple as wishing my wife and son a time-honored sentiment: “Bon appétit.” As all American expats here…

Captivity,” by Teju Cole. What are the captive girls of Chibok thinking of, huddled in their dozens, warned to stay quiet?" /> “ Captivity ,” by Teju Cole. What are the captive girls of Chibok thinking of, huddled in their dozens, warned to stay quiet? There are vast distances between the cities.…

On call Mohannad Sabry, an Egyptian freelance journalist, walks down a street in the Mohandesin neighborhood of Cairo. (Andrew Bossone) I first met Mohannad Sabry in 2005, when I arrived in Egypt for an unpaid internship with The Associated Press. We became fast friends through my roommates, and he…

Credit... James Estrin/The New York Times “Dance with me, baby,” the night nurse crooned to me. Despite the morphine-induced fog clouding my brain that first week after the accident, I understood that she meant I was to collapse into her arms. Then, holding me like a limp rag doll, she lifted me…

Hobby Lobby supporters pray to end abortion outside the US Supreme Court. Jay Mallin/ZUMA When Obamacare compelled businesses to include emergency contraception in employee health care plans, Hobby Lobby, a national chain of craft stores, fought the law all the way to the Supreme Court . The…

Jean McConville, left, with three of her 10 children. She was abducted in 1972 and murdered. Credit... Associated Press BOSTON — For years, the researchers painstakingly recorded and transcribed oral histories from many of the leaders of the factions caught up in the Troubles in Northern Ireland.…

Danny Moloshok / AP The question Cliven Bundy put to his audience last week—Was the black family better off as property?—is as immoral as it unoriginal. As both Adam Serwer and Jamelle Bouie point out, the roster of conservative theorists who imply that black people were better off being whipped,…

Ben Baker/Redux; Media Issue by Post Typography Susan Glasser is editor of Politico . Between them, Bill Keller and Marcus Brauchli have edited all three great American newspapers—the New York Times for Keller, both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post for Brauchli. But their opportunity,…

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I hate sharing food. Learning to share dishes even with my wife, with whom I share a home, a bed, laughter, tears, and horrible opinions about strangers at the grocery store, has been difficult. If you get me out in a group, I start to sweat when someone says, “Do you guys want to share a bunch of…

Scalia done good. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) Prado Navarette in August 2008 was driving 30 pounds of marijuana through California when he was stopped by the cops on suspicion of drunk driving. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court. And today, in a blistering dissent joined by three of the…

When the New York Police Department asked Twitter users on Tuesday to share their photographs with police officers, they were perhaps expecting a few feel-good neighborhood scenes or tourists with police horses in Times Square. A few posted pictures of themselves with officers, smiling. Most did…

F or years, we women have kept our heads down and played by the rules. We’ve been certain that with enough hard work, our natural talents would be recognized and rewarded. We’ve made undeniable progress. In the United States, women now earn more college and graduate degrees than men do. We make up…

Adam Grant Raising a Moral Child Credit... Rutu Modan What does it take to be a good parent? We know some of the tricks for teaching kids to become high achievers. For example, research suggests that when parents praise effort rather than ability, children develop a stronger work ethic and become…

Photography by Santiago & Mauricio | Styling by Lysa Cooper | Additional Styling by Ty Hunter | Makeup: Mally Roncal | Hair: Neal Farinah | Nails: Lisa Logan If you pooled the collective memories of the staff at Parkwood, the small, can-do entertainment company that Beyoncé built, you would have…

Updated, 10:42 a.m. The Times published an article Thursday afternoon about an Arab citizen of Israel – a 23-year-old journalist and Palestinian rights advocate – who was detained by Israeli authorities last weekend. The man, Majd Kayyal, was not allowed a lawyer until Wednesday night, and he was…

Pentagon Memo "I remember thinking, 'What on earth am I going to do with my hair?'" former Sgt. Jasmine Jacobs said when she read about new army rules. Credit... Bryan Meltz for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Black women and their hair have been a topic of discussion for years by people like Maya…

When Michael Dunn was on trial for killing a 17-year-old in Jacksonville, most didn’t know much more about the victim other than that he was shot over a dispute over “loud music.” But before Jordan Davis became another symbol of Florida's deeply divisive "stand your ground" policy, he was just a…

General Mills, the maker of Cheerios and other foods, hopes to prevent customers from taking legal action. Might downloading a 50-cent coupon for Cheerios cost you legal rights? General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and Chex as well as brands like Bisquick and Betty Crocker, has quietly…

Close to the Action Jennifer Levi Ross grew up in Jericho on Long Island and moved to New York City. Ms. Ross, 32, is staying in the city for now. Credit... James Estrin/The New York Times It is a well-trod trail: Suburban youngsters enter their early 20s, leave their parents’ comfortable Tudors or…

After I handed in the first draft of my recent story about the takeover of the Baltimore City Detention Center by the Black Guerrilla Family gang, my editor had a suggestion/demand. It was good to quote the words of the inmates and the guards taken from government wiretaps, he said, but I should…

In 2013 alone, 22 US states adopted 70 different restrictions on abortion, including late-abortion bans, doctor and clinic regulations, limits on medication abortions and bans on insurance coverage. Photograph: Win McNamee / Getty Images Last November, a new law went into effect in Texas: abortion…

FashionMy Obsession The cult Parisian streetwear brand's creative director on the game that inspired his Nike collaboration 15 April 2014 Text Charlie Robin Jones Pigalle x Nike – the inspiration shots 25 In two weeks, cult streetwear shop and brand Pigalle brings out a basketball-themed capsule…

The decision represents the first sign that William J. Bratton, the Police Department’s new commissioner, is backing away from some of the post-9/11 intelligence-gathering practices of his predecessor. Credit... Richard Perry/The New York Times The New York Police Department has abandoned a…

Photo Credit Getty Images Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Editors’ note: We’re featuring thes article again because who doesn’t want to look younger? Exercise not only appears to keep skin younger, it may also even reverse skin aging in people who start exercising late in life,…

The actress Lupita Nyong’o at the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., in March. An Oscar winner, she has capitalized on her fame and gained financial power and cachet. It goes without saying that when you’re handed the part of a lifetime, you play it to the hilt. In the case…

Opinion Are Iran and Israel Trading Places? Credit... Jasper Rietman STANFORD, Calif. — Although the Israeli and Iranian governments have been virtually at war with each other for decades, the two countries have much in common. Both are home to some of the oldest civilizations on earth, and both are…

What does it mean to fire a gun “accidentally”? If you point a gun at the door to a tiny cubicle, believing, you say, that a person is behind it, and fire four shots, can you also say, “I didn’t shoot at anyone. I didn’t intend to shoot at someone .… I didn’t shoot or intend to kill anyone”? That is…

Painting by Jacob Lawrence in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, via Wikimedia Commons Concentrated poverty and racial segregation in American cities are tremendously knotty problems, problems inherited across generations that are hard to solve for unspoken reasons of…

Joshua Brustein: I wrote a long piece about the bitter falling out between two of the worlds most famous type designers. http://t.co/Vdblvxukcm

Here are a few of the things that can make you hungry: seeing, smelling, reading, or even thinking about food. Hearing music that reminds you of a good meal. Walking by a place where you once ate something good. Even after you’ve just had a hearty lunch, imagining something delicious can make you…

Peter Yang A trio of boys tramps along the length of a wooden fence, back and forth, shouting like carnival barkers. “The Land! It opens in half an hour.” Down a path and across a grassy square, 5-year-old Dylan can hear them through the window of his nana’s front room. He tries to figure out what…

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh pasted her self-portrait Friday at the Krog Street Tunnel in Atlanta, known for street art. By Sunday night, the poster had been defaced. Credit... Dustin Chambers for The New York Times ATLANTA — With a lick of wheat paste, a roller and a stepladder, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh , a…

The cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, who has been writing about computer security for more than fifteen years, is not given to panic or hyperbole. So when he writes, of the “catastrophic bug” known as Heartbleed, “ On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11 ,” it’s safe to conclude that the Internet…

LONDON — The letter informing Mohamed Sakr that he had been stripped of his British citizenship arrived at his family’s house in London in September 2010. Mr. Sakr, born and raised here by British-Egyptian parents, was in Somalia at the time and was suspected by Western intelligence agencies of…

Musa Khan, 9 months old, was fingerprinted last Thursday, charged with attempted murder in a stoning attack. LONDON — Pakistan’s troubled criminal judicial system has failed to prosecute several notorious figures living there over the years, including Hafiz Saeed, the militant leader with a $10…

Subscribe There are things that people know, or think that they know, about Rahm Emanuel: He is voluble, tireless, notoriously profane. And yet, when I met him last month, all the stories hadn’t prepared me for his intensity in person. A conversation with Emanuel is a physical experience. When he…

Updated | A flaw has been discovered in one of the Internet’s key security methods, potentially forcing a wide swath of websites to make changes to protect the security of consumers. The problem was first discovered by a team of Finnish security experts and researchers at Google last week and…