Readers respond to a guest essay about illiteracy. Also: The autocrat’s playbook.

Julian Fellowes and Donald Trump both have frothy visions of the Gilded Age. But why would we go back to it in real life?

The Times editorial board argues that Congress must change the Federal Aviation Administration’s funding structure.

America’s withdrawal from the global order is forcing former allies to rethink their identities.

I had a good experience with trans health care. I spend a lot of time talking to people who did not.

Smothering electric vehicles might have been a regrettable mistake for a Republican to make 10 years ago. Today, it is economic idiocy.

The president’s policies are fueling the dreaded combination of slowing growth and rising inflation.

The infamous case’s dissent that Lincoln loved.

He never promised us a Rose Garden.

Three Opinion writers on Trump’s most recent power grabs.

That potential gusher of foreign investment is great, except for what it does to the trade deficit.

The entertainment industry is tired of being so progressive.

Surrounded by the work of Impressionists who dedicated themselves to capturing felt experience rather than reality, I sensed that I would be OK with my altered sight.

The adults who were children at the dawn of the atomic era are nearing the end of their lives.

The outsider critique of the medical establishment has always struggled to offer an alternative vision that’s rigorous rather than credulous.

Three Opinion writers on Trump’s most recent power grabs.

A whiff of the Paris Métro flings me back to a summer I spent in France.

Readers respond to a guest essay about assisted suicide. Also: A setback on vaccines; politics and the pulpit.

When you’re MAGA, they let you do it.

Art can be effective at illuminating and healing only if it is unconstrained by authority.

What if those two unpublished National Enquirer stories had run?

Nutrition science demonizing individual foods or ingredients is often based on flawed science and misses the bigger picture.

Trump’s disregard for federal law is a gift to the world’s most powerful authoritarian government.

Amy Klobuchar has taken a crucial step toward the view of the party’s base.

Consumers and businesses will lose out, thanks to other Trump economic policies.

I would say the most important social trend over the past decade has been the disconnect between our nation’s economic health and its social health.

I stopped listening to Bruce Springsteen’s music. I heard something more.

Readers respond to an article about men, women and “mankeeping.” Also: The Supreme Court; separating migrant families.

Federal judges are under threat across the nation.