There are some possible explanations for what’s happening with seemingly conflicting macroeconomic data.

The war on public health is a battle to the death.

When I first moved to New York City, Marty Reisman befriended me.

Trump’s deal preserves many of the ties to China that the law was designed to sever.

Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and the vibecession are making for a strange close to the year.

Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and the vibecession are making for a strange close to the year.

When people’s cognition is splintered or absent, they are absorbing the emotions around them with no filter to protect them.

The irony of our secular age is that theology is more powerful than ever.

President Trump should press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ease military pressure on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria for the sake of his own policy.

Readers discuss whether or not to quit hosting holiday celebrations. Also: How to lighten the load for busy judges.

There are no wallflowers in Trump’s White House.

The columnist Michelle Goldberg believes Democrats — and the nation — lose when they abandon the idea of America as a nation of immigrants.

Making sense of a year of change.

The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.

For centuries, nobody has known who built the Florence Baptistery. Could A.I. crack the mystery?

What happens when the me, me, me generation enters its old era?

The world’s democracies cannot depend on the most powerful authoritarian state — and an increasingly aggressive one — for critical minerals.

The time has come for a Sixth Republic.

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.