Frank Brunimkgggg, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Nicole Hemmer, a history professor at Vanderbilt and the author of “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s,” a...

American political culture goes through phases. Between 1933 and 1963 that culture went through a Hamiltonian phase. Leaders believed in centralizing power to build big things. Franklin Roosevelt created the Tennessee Valley Authority and the rest o...

Last year, I noticed that two comedians I like talked about getting hair transplants. One of them, Matteo Lane, named his special “Hair Plugs Heartache,” which opens with an extended bit about the transplant experience. I appreciated Lane’s radical...

Image Naz Deravian’s blackened salmon.Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Good morning. This is not a big weekend for health food. People will fry chicken wings for the Super Bowl, make loaded nachos, ch...

Image Alexa Weibel’s creamy, spicy tomato beans and greens.Credit...Kelly Marshall for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Samantha Seneviratne. My colleague Michael Linares alerted me the other day to the popularity of Alexa Weibel’s creamy, spicy to...

In a lot of ways, Ridgewood, Queens, reminds me of Philadelphia. (Giants fans, please don’t @ me.) Let me explain: There’s the narrow streets, which create this cloistered, deeply neighborhood-y feeling. It’s broadly residential, teeming with a dive...

Image Dan Pelosi’s cottage pie.Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. “Oh, this is a knife kind of dinner.” That’s what we say at my home when dinner is a capital-D Dinner, requiring plates and forks and kn...

Can you “Marry Me” anything?1xcassino A number of “Marry Me” recipes, a protein draped in a creamy sun-dried tomato sauce (“Marry Me Chicken”; my colleague Alexa Weibel’s tomato beans, which readers are calling “Marry Me Beans”), made my editors and...