Readers respond to an essay by a conservative mother on the importance of Medicaid to the care of her disabled son.

The ban indicates that Israel’s leaders are deliberately trying to conceal the war’s full horror.

The Trump administration could update the Roadless Rule to permit temporary roads to allow for forest thinning.

As an emblem of resistance to Trump administration policies, the ineffectualness of a floppy sandwich is distressingly apt.

How to bend political reality in two easy steps.

Buying a new, adult couch in a space of my own felt monumental.

India must decide whether to go all in with a capricious Trump or hedge its bets through a rapprochement with China.

It’s an unreal spectacle.

The health secretary is endangering the lives of American people now and into the future.

This Kennedy is no profile in courage.

There’s a reason America is now loving the band.

Both the Biden and Trump administrations have described Sudan as suffering genocide. And no one’s done much about it.

It is the duty of Israeli military reserves to stay home and not fight an unjust war.

Yards should be wilder, freer and more alive.

Readers respond to an essay on the malaise among boys and young men in civic, familial and social life.

Attempts to blame extreme political rhetoric for mass shootings should be treated with extreme skepticism.

Readers react to the firing of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Also: facing U.S. history without shame; shutting ‘Alligator Alcatraz.”

These trees were the only living beings that I could touch without fear.

We drag around our brokenness in the same container as our holiness.

Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.

By turning away from evidence when it doesn’t suit, the administration is showing that it doesn’t think it matters whether it has the better argument.

Where the center of American politics may be alive and well.

The brutality of our immigration policy is no longer quarantined to the border. Both parties are at fault.

Urban wildfires are becoming public health emergencies.

The goal of love is to enhance the life of another, not feel good about ourselves.

The firing of the C.D.C. director is the latest in a series of questionable decisions.

Readers lament the school shooting in Minnesota. Also: The Capitol Police ignored by President Trump; a possible cancer risk for runners.

That one word speaks volumes.

The president has raised the stakes.