Readers disagree with an essay about factory farms.

Communities must be able to move to solid ground while remaining whole.

On ‘Squid Game,’ the game is cruel but life is crueler. In Season 2, a new twist introduces a kind of cruelty that feels uncomfortably close to real life.

She was a radiant star who played things her own way.

Because of a lack of access to menstruation products, girls across Africa and Asia often stay home from school when they have their periods.

It’s not a miracle, but it seems like one.

Diversity was a virtue in the Biden administration. The Trump administration may discover the same thing.

I hope to get more young people interested in neglected topics and writing about them.

Responses to a column by Jamelle Bouie. Also: Trade with China; rising autism rates; in awe of Schubert; games as a common bond; Local Call’s work.

Companies’ use of foreign workers frequently leads to American layoffs.

It’s a culture not of success but of survival.

The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational.

A second-person narrative of social media.

Israeli accountability, a powerful protest movement and an emerging generation of leaders could bring a better future for Palestinians.

The Senate needs to ensure the next cabinet is full of real professionals.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, a hand surgeon in India and others share their expectations.

Homelessness is a crisis born of several compounded crises, a symptom of the varied ways our country is failing the most vulnerable.

Readers discuss for-profit health insurers and how to reform U.S. health care. Also: A police failure in New Orleans; making polluters pay.

Perception is everything in politics, and a lot of Americans perceive Democrats as not feeling their pain or caring too much about other things.

A dietitian on why “ultraprocessed” is not a helpful label.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy may not be as disastrous as that of George W. Bush, whose idealism and hubris led to calamity, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be corrosive.

Letting them take some responsibility for their choices is what prepares them for adult life.

Greed and self-delusion kept the money flowing, and hid the truth from the public.

Readers discuss the plummeting respect for the judicial system. Also: Syria sanctions; religion and Democrats; medical uses of psychedelics.

Being alone doesn’t mean you’re lonely.

I know many voters reject my party’s significant leftward shift. So do I. Democrats need to refocus on bipartisan solutions to America’s problems.

Whenever someone agrees wholeheartedly with something I write, I die a little inside.

Two extremely online people on how the internet became so strange.

The parts of my brain that make it hard for me to keep a tidy house are also responsible for much of what I love about my personality.