EditorialKatie Bishop, the owner of Principles GI Coffee House, which was inspired by the egalitarian, antiwar coffeehouses that sprung up around military bases during the Vietnam War, in Brooklyn, Aug. 11, 2022. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
EditorialMaggie Carter, a Starbucks barista, with a stack of union cards at the coffeehouse in Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 12, 2022. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)
EditorialMaggie Carter, a Starbucks barista, with a stack of union cards at the coffeehouse in Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 12, 2022. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)
EditorialA masked patron works on a laptop as others talk outside a coffeehouse in Brooklyn during the early months of the pandemic, April 27, 2020. (Stephanie Keith/The New York Times)
EditorialMen drink and socialize outside at the Altinkapi Coffeehouse in the Yesilkoy neighborhood of Istanbul on Oct. 16, 2020. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialMen drink and socialize outside at the Altinkapi Coffeehouse in the Yesilkoy neighborhood of Istanbul on Oct. 16, 2020. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialFrankie, a rescue puppy recently adopted by a patron at Josiah’s Coffeehouse in Sioux Falls, S.D., just across the state line from Iowa, Jan. 16, 2020. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)