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.

A road map for undoing the damage.

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.

Beijing must be delighted by how the U.S. is surrendering the future of electricity to it.

A substitute religion, it offers a sense of moral superiority and group membership.

Steven Rattner reveals the ugly reality lurking within the “big, beautiful bill.”

Seven writers on the best and worst provisions in Trump’s bill.

Readers voice outrage over appalling conditions in immigrant detention centers. Also: Paramount’s settlement; political violence; not pro bono.

A tax move from the Reagan era might explain what’s going on now.

What does it mean to be an American?

Grading how the Supreme Court has done so far in Trump 2.0.

His approach is a blueprint for the party’s campaigners everywhere.