Readers respond to an editorial about the need for more affordable housing. Also: El Niño and famine; Luke Morrison’s military museum.

We seem to have forgotten more or less everything.

We’ve heard a lot about what it can do for businesses, and for individuals, but what about society?

The reading crisis is real, but the solution does not require new inventions.

A civil-rights leader’s friendship with a white boy sits at the heart of his account of how he encountered racism.

“Heteropessimism” is all the rage — but really, there’s never been a better time to be looking for love. Go on, be a hetero-optimist.

“You can be the kingmaker even when you’re not the king,” argues the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein. The Republican strategist Liam Donovan joins “The Ezra Klein Show” to explain that Trump’s core strategy is ensuring a vulnerable G.O.P. can never abandon him.

Readers react to a guest essay about how some patients are living longer with advanced cancer.

The president is acting as if the midterms no longer matter.

A low murder rate is by no means the only measure of a good society. But it’s a pretty good measure of a society’s underlying stability.

I once raised pigs. And factory farms raise them today in conditions that are as unconscionable as they are invisible.

Schools are not like start-ups, because children’s minds should not be tied to the whims of the marketplace.

Blue states like Massachusetts need to be part of the solution.

The president is acting as if the midterms no longer matter.

In the wake of #MeToo, changing workplace norms left many men unsure of how to behave. But was that confusion genuine — or just an excuse? On “The Opinions,” Frederick Joseph argues that many men became “childlike during that time.”

Films like “Inside Out” raise questions about how we portray boys’ emotional lives. “It just felt like every time that a male character appeared onscreen in that movie, they were an emotional idiot,” Ruth Whippman says on “The Opinions.”

Readers respond to a news article, “Push to Deport Splits Over 100,000 Families.” Also: The trolling war.

What exactly is conservatism in the Trump era?

The president doesn’t seem that concerned that his party could lose control of Congress. Ezra Klein and the Republican strategist Liam Donovan discuss Trump’s midterm strategy and Democratic paths to victory.

How long can decent people continue to work for such a corrupted institution?

The president doesn’t seem that concerned that his party could lose control of Congress. Ezra Klein and the Republican strategist Liam Donovan discuss Trump’s midterm strategy and Democratic paths to victory.

We need to confront America’s highly concentrated food sector, one that has feasted on oligopolistic behavior for more than a century.

A much-needed, nuanced conversation about masculinity and feminism today.

We need a law that raises the legal standard for bringing federal criminal charges.

A much-needed, nuanced conversation about masculinity and feminism today.

Eleven lessons America must learn

Are we ready for autonomous drones to make life-and-death decisions on the battlefield? Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, explains on “Interesting Times” that the Pentagon’s official policy leaves the door for autonomous weapons wide open.

America has fired “something like eight years’ worth of Tomahawk missile production” in Iran, Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, says on “Interesting Times,” where he and the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat discuss the limitations of America’s arsenal of “luxury” weapons.

All Americans benefit from the outcome of this case. And yet the decision highlights just how much work still needs to be done.