The New York Times has renamed its Op-Ed page, instead calling the articles on the page âGuest Essays,â reasoning that the term has become outdated in our digital age. The Times Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury explained in a piece published recently that opinion page articles were first called âOp-Edsâ because they were printed on the opposite side of the editorial page. Though many believed they were called âOp-Edsâ because the opinions written were opposite that of the paperâs, Kingsbury wrote that the true purpose of the page was to âstimulate thought and provoke discussion of public problems.â âThat important mission remains the same. But itâs time to change the name,â Kingsbury wrote. âThe reason is simple: In the digital world, in which millions of Times subscribers absorb the paperâs journalism online, there is no geographical 'Op-Ed,' just as there is no geographical 'Ed' for Op-Ed to be opposite to. It is a relic of an older age and an older print newspaper design."