Readers respond to a guest essay that warned of authoritarianism in America. Also: Shame on the lawyers; euphoria over Pope Leo XIV.

Republicans should embrace their working class voters.

A Harvard economist argues that a decline in manufacturing jobs is not what ails the United States.

Jurists have long surprised expectations based on party, and it’s reassuring to see that continue.

Three European former diplomats talk about what America meant to them and how that’s changed.

The Europe that permitted wolves to thrive is fracturing.

A handshake deal with the food industry will never be enough.

Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.

Serbian protesters are bravely combating a powerful autocratic government.

Stephen Miller said on Friday the administration is looking into suspending habeas corpus. But don’t forget: The Trump administration keeps losing in court.

Readers respond to an essay about religion in America. Also: Stop the elderspeak.

Trump’s efforts to eliminate the Department of Education and give its funding directly to the states are a nightmare for parents like me.

Musk is leaving Washington looking less like a legend.

Neither MAGA nor woke, the new pontiff confounds political categories.

For Trump and others, it evinces powerful nostalgia for something that never actually existed.

I toured college campuses and found a generation yearning to learn about punk as a survival strategy.

Medical aid in dying laws are flawed.

Being flawed is an important part of a mother’s job. How else would the children in your world learn that flaws are OK and to accept their own?

The staying power of family culture.

Five years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’

I am a Peruvian who embraced America, and the pope is an American who embraced Peru.

Donald Trump will either have to accept a nuclear deal with Iran that looks a lot like the one he denounced, or use military force, with hugely unpredictable consequences.

At 83, the mogul looks back on his sprawling, complicated life and surveys Trump’s America.

Five years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’

The satirical comedy about Hollywood is as much a send-up of the audience as it is of the industry.

Readers react to a woman’s account of raising her autistic child.

There’s been a profound and dangerous shift in their rivalry, and it threatens U.S. interests.

Readers respond to the election of a new pope and ponder its effects on American politics. Also: Presidential profits.

Preaching about the supernatural and the digital.