Debating Vivek Ramaswamy’s pressure-cooker vision.

Readers offer perspectives on the California wildfires and climate change. Also: Jimmy Carter’s gift; Samuel Alito, Donald Trump and ethics.

He didn’t get the credit he deserved on the economy.

After the Bobcat fire, L.A. no longer felt safe.

Ro Khanna, a progressive from Silicon Valley, on Big Tech’s rightward lurch.

The nation’s biggest metropolis remains one of its safest, but there’s more to do.

A cleareyed review of Biden’s term.

The political scientist Erica Frantz describes the regime change the second Trump administration represents.

It’s time to double the size of the maximum Pell Grant.

Fixing America’s broken immigration system starts with acknowledging that the United States needs more people.

Why shouldn’t “Gypsy” engage in a little creative anachronism?

Learning to care for others or the common good should be a fundamental part of education.

Washington isn’t prepared for Trump, but it is braced.

She’s the 62-year-old queen of an awards season with overdue female diversity.

Readers disagree with an essay by a Republican pollster. Also: Sperm donors’ anonymity; judges and gun violence; too much agreement.

The effort to ban TikTok is not about what’s on the platform but about who runs it.

Los Angeles may have a reputation for being superficial, but it is in fact a territory that might, at any moment, upend (or even end) your life.

A resolution by the American Historical Association hardens the perception that academia has become fundamentally politicized.

The vibe around the halls of Congress has been quite different from this time four years ago.

Sarah Wildman on the conversation that was missing during her daughter’s cancer treatment.

Over the next four years, the rule of law will face a profound test.

The terrorist attack in New Orleans serves as a grim reminder that the group is still able to transform personal crises into public tragedy.

China’s primary goal is to damage America’s economy and pave the way for it to become the world’s pre-eminent power.

Yes, you can become sober and remain social.

Researchers say hundreds of thousands of babies’ lives could be saved each year in developing countries with exclusive breastfeeding.

Trump may be inheriting ‘Morning in America’. Will Americans accept being happy?

A decade ago, this kind of disaster seemed unthinkably rare.

He has leveraged his political ambiguity to strengthen Meta, with consequences for the future of Silicon Valley and for the truth.

Canadians react to Donald Trump’s proposal. Also: Trump on the Panama Canal and Greenland; Trump and TikTok; Meta and fact-checking; a messy home.