Trump has only two answers to every problem: tariffs and mass deportation.

A seemingly frothy reality show has a deeper conflict at its core.

On our public lands, nobody can pull rank on you. Except a bear.

Heat waves are America’s deadliest weather events. It’s time we name them.

We need to let students slow down. Critical cognition, by definition, takes time.

Readers discuss unwanted medical care and choosing to die.

You don’t have to have kids to have kids in your life.

You don’t have to have kids to have kids in your life.

Is the problem the man who gave his son a gun, or the gun?

Three reasons to doubt the Democrats’ chances.

Taxing unrealized capital gains is a poor way to achieve a laudable goal.

Readers share their love of books in response to Margaret Renkl’s essay. Also: Taxes on the superrich; teaching the Bible; nurturing friendships.

The soft landing has happened; now it’s time to cut interest rates.

Colleges and universities are democracy’s greatest arsenal. They do not need the unanimity of the graveyard.

Nazi sympathy is the natural endpoint of the politics of trolling.

The former president has to answer for Dobbs. He can’t wriggle out of it.

All three legs of America’s nuclear triad need substantial modernization and billions of dollars to keep pace with our adversaries.

Ross Douthat goes head-to-head with his fellow columnist David French over how to move Republicans past Trump.

Are the thousands of empty properties scattered across the country any kind of solution?

Why we want the wrong things.

Who you gonna believe, him or your lying eyes?

His “weave” conveys meaning, I’ll give him that. But it says something he does not intend.

Readers discuss gun laws, trying the suspect as an adult, defining mass shootings and more. Also: A view from AIPAC; an anti-family Republican Party.

What should we do when TikTok’s algorithm turns deadly?

Allan Lichtman’s method for predicting election winners has an impressive track record.

The columnist Thomas L. Friedman explains what Netanyahu’s three key goals mean for the upcoming U.S. election.

Too many bus and subway passengers don’t pay. The best solution is more policing.

Donald Trump seems to wish he could still run against Joe Biden. Harris probably wishes she didn’t have to.

My nine months as a generative art model.