Readers respond to a news article, “Push to Deport Splits Over 100,000 Families.” Also: The trolling war.

What exactly is conservatism in the Trump era?

The president doesn’t seem that concerned that his party could lose control of Congress. Ezra Klein and the Republican strategist Liam Donovan discuss Trump’s midterm strategy and Democratic paths to victory.

How long can decent people continue to work for such a corrupted institution?

The president doesn’t seem that concerned that his party could lose control of Congress. Ezra Klein and the Republican strategist Liam Donovan discuss Trump’s midterm strategy and Democratic paths to victory.

We need to confront America’s highly concentrated food sector, one that has feasted on oligopolistic behavior for more than a century.

A much-needed, nuanced conversation about masculinity and feminism today.

We need a law that raises the legal standard for bringing federal criminal charges.

A much-needed, nuanced conversation about masculinity and feminism today.

Eleven lessons America must learn

Are we ready for autonomous drones to make life-and-death decisions on the battlefield? Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, explains on “Interesting Times” that the Pentagon’s official policy leaves the door for autonomous weapons wide open.

America has fired “something like eight years’ worth of Tomahawk missile production” in Iran, Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, says on “Interesting Times,” where he and the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat discuss the limitations of America’s arsenal of “luxury” weapons.

All Americans benefit from the outcome of this case. And yet the decision highlights just how much work still needs to be done.

The ancients developed punctuation to create clarity, the Supreme Court used it to create confusion.

Readers discuss Senator John Cornyn’s loss to Ken Paxton in Tuesday’s Republican primary. Also: Investigating E. Jean Carroll; Mets and Knicks; religion and A.I.

Three reasons Trump is losing the war in Iran.

Texas just got a lot more interesting.

Ukraine and Iran have shown us that war as we’ve known it is over.

A filmmaker asks residents of the embattled island what they would say to the U.S. president.

Ukraine and Iran have shown us that war as we’ve known it is over.

Members of the country’s grandest political dynasty are not inherently qualified to hold office.

A filmmaker asks residents of the embattled island what they would say to the U.S. president.

Elections this year hold out the promise that the state can change policies in a way to recover some international good will.

A.I. agents are already being used in workplaces. But what happens when they are granted legal personhood? Yuval Noah Harari, the author of “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to A.I.,” explains on “The Ezra Klein Show.”

The historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari is interested in how stories shape societies. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” he describes the dominant storylines of fascism, Communism and liberalism, and why the liberal narrative is struggling to hold.

He is both a critic and a normalizer of artificial intelligence.

Silicon Valley is about to get a lot more liquid. What will it spend its money on?

Readers discuss the Democratic Party’s autopsy of the presidential election. Also: Single at a party.

Despite all our good intentions, the legal system — that thing we were charged to protect — kept getting worse.