Trump wants to find out just how weak this Supreme Court is.

We owe it to American service members and their families to be truthful about the risks involved and why we are at war.

Higher oil prices and limited supply will accelerate a turn toward cleaner technologies, especially in Asia and Europe.

In the Indiana primaries, a crucial test of the MAGA loyalty machine.

President Trump wants to take away a fundamental American promise.

Even opponents of the conflict should want to see Iran defanged and defeated.

Why none of America’s faiths have taken mainline Protestantism’s place.

If it’s possible to put plants to sleep using anesthesia, what does that say about whether they’re conscious? Can they feel pain? The author Michael Pollan explores this “spooky and interesting” discovery on “The Ezra Klein Show.”

“The brain exists to keep the body alive, not the other way around,” argues the author Michael Pollan as he explores the connection between consciousness and the body in this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

Trump should set aside his 15-point peace plan and reduce it to these two points.

Readers criticize President Trump over his bellicose statements on Iran. Also: Education for every child, citizen or not; the cost of war.

The scholar Henry Farrell explains how efforts to capture Trump’s attention and approval through spectacle resemble the attention dynamics in Nazi Germany.

The 2030 census is very likely to hurt their electoral prospects.

Michael Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked.

Reckoning with the United Farm Workers founder means reckoning with his movement.

Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder things got.

This is not how American democracy is supposed to work.

The president and the Republican Party deserve to pay a political price for the pardons.

A 1936 convention establishing Turkish control over the Dardanelles could be an inspiration to resolving the energy bottleneck in the Persian Gulf.

Almost every ideology can be wielded to make women feel that they’re failing.

The bombing campaign Mr. Trump is threatening in Iran could affect millions of Iranian civilians’ access to water, electricity and food.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is racing to eliminate regional threats because he sees that U.S. support for the country is collapsing, Mona Charen, the policy editor at The Bulwark, argues on “The Opinions.”

Readers discuss the huge rallies on Saturday protesting the president.

Is Lindy West a feminist? Is she happy? Everyone has an opinion.

The president’s depravity is deathless

It might be time to ditch some common assumptions about Republicans.

The framers of the 14th Amendment endorsed a capacious definition of ‘American.’

It makes no sense to me that billionaires would criticize others for trying to help their fellow humans.

The federal government can once again make building wealth for young families a core mission.