The pope has emerged as an increasingly lonely moral voice against perilous global trends like nationalism and populism.

Jeanne Shaheen, 78, is the latest Senate Democrat to say she won’t run for re-election. It’s the right call, and there’s still time for others to follow.

Being known as an enemy of Trump has become great politics in Canada and Mexico

Readers react to the Trump administration’s suppression of words in government documents. Also: Bullied Republicans; Iran’s economy.

There has been a plateau of “nones” in the past few years. It won’t last.

Your first quiz of the second Trump administration is here.

While fears about the economic chaos caused by tariffs are real, the underlying economic data in America remain strong.

A typology of constitutional crises and constitutional rot.

Michelle Goldberg and Frank Bruni join Patrick Healy to discuss the issues that have defined Trump’s presidency thus far.

The economist Kimberly Clausing explains the possible costs and consequences of Trump’s tariffs.

In recent days, the perceived value among allies of acquiring nuclear weapons is up, and confidence in the U.S. nuclear umbrella is down.

Trump’s foreign policy philosophy is not “containment” or “engagement,” but “smash and grab.”

Until Donald Trump, no president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history, so incompetent in implementing his own ideas.

The Trump administration unveiled moves against colleges related to how they handled protests after Oct. 7. But the problem is a different one.

Readers react to the deep staff cuts at the V.A. Also: How State Department reductions will hurt Americans abroad.

Only the norms of history and the customs of decency constrain a president — or, as in this case, they don’t.

How much have Democrats learned from their ‘shattering defeat’?

The president should reread the Declaration of Independence.

We’re still in the chaos phase.

A former Anheuser-Busch executive explains how his experiences soured him on the corporate D.E.I. movement.

The city is strikingly rewriting the story of skilled migration.

Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.

Readers respond to a guest essay about the Democrats’ need for a Project 2029. Also: President Trump’s tariff pause; a Black Lives Matter mural.

The official and unofficial languages of the White House, decoded.

“Until I am dragged away, I’m going to do my job to the utmost of my ability.”

Talking to people around Chicago, I heard the word “resentment” over and over.

Cracking down on officers’ abuse of placards would signal an end to the culture of impunity that has suffused the department.

If we are to take seriously the threats of drought, climate change and water security, we should not reduce this place to a warring of two — or even many — sides.

What once belonged to all of us now belongs to corporations.