I wish everyone would slow down. The least we can do is to give our wild neighbors time to cross the roads we have built through the middle of their homes.

After eight years of weekly chats, one more for the road.

It is suffering from a self-inflicted wound and the world is just starting to share the pain.

The real price of college isn’t always the sticker price.

The World Health Organization should do what it can do bring the U.S. back as a member.

Many of the current efforts to expand the powers of the White House build on the excesses of recent Republican and Democratic presidents.

America must discard the belief that it is beating China in the innovation race.

Readers discuss an essay about the Nobel laureate’s decision to end his life at 90. Also: Questions for America.

Two cases before the Supreme Court ask why the government is able to avoid liability when it does the wrong thing.

Sometimes I wonder, “Why did we have to wait this long?”

The administration reaches back to a European tradition of right-wing thought that favors explicitly monarchical and even dictatorial rule.

Energy turmoil is no accident — it’s the direct result of President Trump’s economic vandalism.

Empathy without ethics isn’t virtuous. It’s manipulative. And it’s starting to feel all too commonplace.

The most consequential day of Donald Trump’s second term came before it even began.

Even if El Salvador’s president has ironically called himself the “coolest dictator in the world,” he’s a dictator nonetheless.

On Trump’s declining popularity and D.E.I.

This is the one thing all economists agree on.

The obsession with a Black director’s ownership package reflects the themes of his film.

The Iberian blackout showed us how much community matters.

Classical musicians have a lot to teach interpreters of the U.S. Constitution. It’s so much more than the text.

Prozac is nearly 40 years old. Why are there still unanswered questions?

Detained at his citizenship interview, the Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi speaks of his ordeal.

Readers argue for due process for migrants, and everyone else. Also: Harvard’s defiance; cuts to Meals on Wheels.

The economist Kenneth Rogoff traces the dollar’s rise — and potential fall.

The economist Kenneth Rogoff traces the dollar’s rise — and potential fall.

The U.S. government’s dismantling of Radio Free Asia means giving Beijing’s propaganda free rein.

Small-town America depends on health care systems like mine, but I’m not sure we’ll be able to keep our doors open if Congress cuts Medicaid.

Dr. King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” has some pointed guidance for today’s Trump opposition.

Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.