How can different religions be “like different languages in order to arrive at God”?

David French explores what keeps Trump’s followers hooked.

The danger isn’t nearly as great as it was a few months ago, but things could still get screwed up.

Questions can be crystallizing for candidates and voters, and some politicians have had their finest moments answering tough questions on their feet.

Too often, authorities stick to erroneous positions despite countervailing evidence.

Gendered and racial narratives that have long stalked the interactions between white and Black women have come to dominate the talk about these two W.N.B.A. players.

Money to monitor air quality in some of the most polluted places in the world can lead to cleaner air and healthier populations.

Experts are rushing to redefine obesity amid soaring demand for new weight loss drugs.

The Springfield fable is part of a crusade to throw immigrants out of the country.

“So many men were killed, like grains of sand,” says one survivor.

The global war on terror changed the course of American history. So why have we forgotten about it?

The global war on terror changed the course of American history. So why have we forgotten about it?

If anything, the cutting should have begun earlier.

Readers are upset by the columnist’s uncertainty about voting for Kamala Harris. Also: Donald Trump’s “audacity”; Afghanistan; teaching the Bible; pressure on teenagers.

When ‘states’ rights’ means subverting the will of the people.

In the world of political fund-raising, there is hard money, soft money, dark money — and Leonard Leo money.

When you start talking about people “poisoning the blood of our country,” this is where you end up. And it’s not over.

Instead of treating real estate as a commodity, we can underwrite the construction of millions of permanently affordable homes and apartments.

The Nobel-winning economist has some advice for Jerome Powell.

Here’s a hint: It’s not about linguistic purity.

It is more important than ever in an era of grossly excessive punishments and mass incarceration.

Children are growing up in the same camps as the Islamic State’s true believers. This is inhumane, and it’s not making anyone safer.

It’s not enough to be “Not Trump.”

The spirit of Trofim Lysenko comes to trade policy.

The explosion of wireless devices across Lebanon casts in sharp relief the challenges of U.S. foreign policy facing Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.

Readers discuss the harm from the lies about immigrants eating dogs and cats. Also: The guns; Americans in exile; the pope and the election; the debates.

Did Chief Justice John Roberts not realize his immunity ruling would be seen as a victory for Trump?

The novelist on everything from the “amorphous” self to aging and mystery.

One way to quantify the value of a product is to find out how many of the people who use it wish it had never been invented.