The fading of hummingbirds, butterflies and leaves brings both melancholy and exquisite beauty.

The Vermont senator on how to take the country back from elites — on both sides of the aisle.

And why it matters so much to try.

Perhaps gun control and carbon taxes aren’t as popular as they seem.

For decades, the United States has clashed over two stories of nationhood.

It’s not all baguettes and cheese.

The Vermont senator on how to take the country back from elites on both sides of the aisle.

Venezuela’s president has built a system in which the only people who can truly tear down his dictatorship are the ones with the most to lose from its demise.

Readers respond to an editorial about moving to the center. Also: No-phone time during the Sabbath; the energy crisis.

In the age of artificial intelligence, your own data is anything but personal.

In the New Jersey governor’s race, the Democratic candidate, Mikie Sherrill, is polling well. So why is there so much anxiety? The journalist Molly Jong-Fast visited her campaign and found a major disconnect between the public critique and the strong candidate she saw in person.

If there is no cover-up, then there must not have been a crime.

The sheer scale of everyday horror has shaken Mexico’s traditional relationship with death.

Climate change is not a giant meteor crashing into Earth. We will not all suffer equally.

Fra Angelico’s work is not merely artistically significant. It is a spiritual experience.

Democrats do not just need to win more people. They also need to win more places.

Democrats do not just need to win more people. They also need to win more places.

Discussion of women in the workplace often focuses on flexible hours, but what’s actually needed is shift work — pioneered by the medical profession.

The Constitution is not a word game.

Lessons from the Tea Party and recent elections.

Five Republicans just voted with Democrats to block Trump’s tariffs. This proves Congress can act. So why isn’t it using that same power to address hunger, health care costs or undeclared wars? The New York Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, explains.

Commercial camaraderie underscores how it’s lacking in real life.

What does it mean when a cultural epicenter is poised to be little more than a dearly departed corpse?

It was right to decry factional strife. Its remedy was a grave mistake.

Girls as young as 10 are sometimes legally wed here in the U.S., even as we tell other countries to end this cruel practice.

Congress is dying in real time.

Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Erin O. White about how she stopped cooking dinner.

Israelis must debate three claims: that killing tens of thousands in Gaza was necessary, not Israel’s fault and the inevitable outcome of a high-tech war.

This is what happens when no one wants to govern.