Shopping should be about lust. Instead, it’s become a slog.

Readers suggest ways to bring medical costs under control for average Americans. Also: Australia sets an example for the U.S. on gun laws.

The D.S.A. is still small. But as economic inequality keeps burning, Democratic Socialists are attracting intense interest and getting elected to office.

What will come in its wake?

Living in the upside-down kingdom of God.

She was a great-grandmother, and I was a millennial. We could have talked forever.

Children’s Aid provides free after-school programs for low-income New Yorkers that students love and parents see as a solution.

It’s all over but the shouting.

The right mastered influencer politics. Now they’re tearing the movement apart.

The secretary of state has somehow avoided becoming either a media fixation or a major player in the right’s unfolding psychodrama.

I spent years dreaming of giving up, but figuring out how, when the role of host had calcified around me like plaster, seemed impossible.

Jamelle Bouie argues that the administration already looks burned out — with three more years to go.

On “The Opinions” podcast, Jamelle Bouie argues we’re observing a presidency run by people pursuing “their own narrow ideological political goals using the president’s authority.”

Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and David French convene to discuss the year that was.

Major A.I. companies are competing to give their models the most appealing personality.

Per Scholas has helped over 30,000 people, about half of whom never graduated from a four-year college, break into careers in tech.

An eminent New Testament scholar recounts what he says was the message of Jesus that transformed the West.

When a judge has to ask if one ruling is a “safer choice for their family” than another, is it still justice? New Jersey judge Esther Salas explains how political attacks have threatened the foundation of the U.S. judiciary.

Readers respond to an essay criticizing U.S. Democrats’ failure to resolve the conflict in Gaza. Also: Trump’s Kennedy Center rebrand; blaming immigrants after the Brown shooting.

All policy decisions have trade-offs, and cannabis legalization is no exception.

The speaker emerita is disappointed and a little surprised that the presidential glass ceiling remains intact, but confident that it will change.

Monica-Grace Mukendi’s career demonstrates the lasting impact of OneGoal, a nonprofit that helps low-income students attend college.

There’s no getting around this if we want to avoid the deficit cliff ahead.

Adults need to set up rules for students so that it’s not on them to self-regulate when it comes to going tech-free.

How providence and loss helped shape “The Lord of the Rings.”

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ever more elaborate workarounds.

America is in its pessimism era, and Trump is playing on it, argues the columnist David Brooks in this episode of The Conversation.

“A lot of people are seeing some things that are really bad for Donald Trump,” David Brooks says in this episode of The Conversation.

As a politician, Justin Trudeau was an excellent celebrity. And the rest of the world could learn a useful lesson from how he wielded his star power.