Exercise has never been fun, but our expectations for physical performance, what it means to be healthy, and what it means to age have gotten too high.

Is it possible to be a good citizen in a country that does bad things? In this video, New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen argues yes — and introduces Israeli dissidents who show us how.

Readers discuss equal opportunity and immigration as central ideas in the American project. Also: The value of brain research; Democratic momentum.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign ended up winning over some of the exact voters who make up a major part of the Democratic coalition. Why is worth considering.

And it defeats the basic purpose of the document.

Gossip and conflict avoidance may be a sign that a workplace has become overly feminized, Helen Andrews argues on this week’s “Interesting Times.” In this episode, she and the author Leah Libresco Sargeant debate what institutions lose when they shift from male to female dominance.

What are “feminine virtues” and “feminine vices”? On “Interesting Times,” the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat moderates a debate between Helen Andrews, the author of the recent essay “The Great Feminization,” and Leah Libresco Sargeant, the author of “The Dignity of Dependence,” about the impact these virtues and vices may have on the workplace.

She has shown herself more willing than most to put aside her own ego for the greater good.

He’s sharp-elbowed, retributive and transactional, and won’t be missed.

But it’s still history.

Inside the minds of authoritarians.

Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss whether affordability is the Democrats’ winning message, Trump’s politics of cruelty and how liberalism can win right now.

What both parties should take away from a night of Democratic victories.

Donald Trump’s recent Gatsby party encapsulates this moment of economic peril.

For a movement that built its legitimacy around what it called resistance, giving up its weapons is not just a tactical concession, it is an existential unraveling.

She’ll rightly be lionized as the first woman speaker, but in one sense, that was the most incidental of her myriad accomplishments.

Readers respond to news and opinion articles about Bill Gates’s public memo on climate change. Also: Interfaith connections; the myth of originalism.

Some of the best music I’ve ever heard was almost lost forever.

The constructive, if messy, path forward is for the party to embrace an all-of-the-above approach.

Where is the line between authority and authoritarianism?

Has “Frankenstein” become all feelings and no blood?

And if so, can conservative feminism fix it?

And can conservative feminism fix it?

A photographer spends 15 years documenting an Appalachian family and the constant pressure of poverty in their lives.

The slaughter in Darfur could potentially be stopped, if those with leverage chose to act.

Western capitals should be wary of treating democracy in Turkey as a luxury rather than a necessity.

The problem with giving any president basically unconstrained authority to raise revenue via tariffs.

Readers react to strong election results for Democrats. Also: the case against gerrymandering.

Readers react to strong election results for Democrats. Also: the case against gerrymandering.