Readers react to an award for a law student’s essay claiming that the rights recognized in the Constitution apply only to white people. Also: Climate change.

Porn platforms just got what they deserved at the Supreme Court.

What Senator Thom Tillis’s retirement says about today’s Republican Party.

Trump’s cuts to the N.E.A. and the N.E.H. will leave America depleted.

What we can learn from the New York Democratic mayoral primary.

Public lands are the inheritance of all Americans and should never be sold by Congress.

Making decisions that align long-term goals and short-term rewards is challenging, but it can lead to better choices and richer lives.

A Q&A with Zaakir Tameez about Charles Sumner and the antislavery movement.

The Trump administration’s political witch hunt is risking the bureau’s effectiveness and the public’s safety.

Brad Pitt, icon, is one thing that still works in America.

The president celebrates July 4 by stroking his ego and choking the poor.

I went to West Africa to report on girls’ education. I left convinced that the Western feminist movement has grown far too comfortable fighting only for itself.

The big, beautiful bill is a horror. It’s also an opportunity.

The Trump administration’s political witch hunt is risking the bureau’s effectiveness and the public’s safety.

The various ways that the G.O.P. legislation doesn’t address itself to America’s most important problems.

Readers offer contrasting views on a guest essay by Lynn Casteel Harper.

Readers respond to an article about jobs in manufacturing. Also: Young minds and digital addiction.

That the hotel tape is not by itself enough to convict the celebrity — of something — speaks to the system’s failures.

Congress is no longer in the business of thoughtful legislating. Its role has been reduced to putting political points on the board for the president.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Pediatricians like me are worried that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers will make it harder for children to get the shots they need.

The characters that dominated the end of the last millennium have an outsize influence on the current one.

In my parents’ gift shop, I learned about being Native.

Genetics reunited the families of Argentina’s disappeared. President Javier Milei’s government is imperiling that.

His politicization of the name America taps into a long, well, American tradition, as old as the nation itself.

The regime is sending a chilling message: Dissent equals death.

It’s not an education if A.I. does your thinking for you.

Stretched out in the sunshine, even the flimsiest things radiate inner light.