Zohran Mamdani made the city glow, bringing a beauty to the everyday fixtures we ceased to register.

Readers respond to a proposal in Utah to forcibly remove homeless people. Also: Stolen treasures; America’s gambling problem; why retire?

Some semaglutide users experience benefits beyond weight loss. Are you one of them?

Zohran Mamdani made the city glow, bringing a beauty to the everyday fixtures we ceased to register.

This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).

A pioneering road shows what highways were and what they can be as it turns 100.

The Democratic Party will not return to the White House, nor reclaim Congress, until it learns to embrace centrist politicians like Pennsylvania’s governor.

Pop culture exports have long been a potent source of American soft power. What happens when the U.S. is no longer the global capital of cool?

There is no one-size-fits-all template for winning elections.

If all other institutions fail, is there not a certain unique potency in the monarchy before dissolution?

Murderous attacks on Christians and Muslims alike are a real problem in Nigeria. Cutting humanitarian assistance there is even more lethal.

Skeptics overlook how our concepts change.

Why the future of the G.O.P. will likely be guided by the right’s political DNA.

He had a good factory job that helped him raise a family. But it didn’t save him from despair.

The round table convenes to discuss what comes after the Democrats’ big wins — and whether the “red hat” coalition can recover.

Readers respond to a Times editorial detailing the country’s slide toward autocracy.

President Trump raged after Democrats won multiple elections this week. And now he’s calling on lawmakers to take action: To do more gerrymandering, to outlaw mail-in ballots and to make voter ID laws more strict. Why is Trump so afraid of American voters? He’s afraid of losing his majority in the midterm elections, argues Times Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury.

The round table convenes to discuss what comes after the Democrats’ big wins — and whether the “red hat” coalition can recover.

Exercise has never been fun, but our expectations for physical performance, what it means to be healthy, and what it means to age have gotten too high.

Is it possible to be a good citizen in a country that does bad things? In this video, New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen argues yes — and introduces Israeli dissidents who show us how.

Readers discuss equal opportunity and immigration as central ideas in the American project. Also: The value of brain research; Democratic momentum.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign ended up winning over some of the exact voters who make up a major part of the Democratic coalition. Why is worth considering.

And it defeats the basic purpose of the document.

Gossip and conflict avoidance may be a sign that a workplace has become overly feminized, Helen Andrews argues on this week’s “Interesting Times.” In this episode, she and the author Leah Libresco Sargeant debate what institutions lose when they shift from male to female dominance.

What are “feminine virtues” and “feminine vices”? On “Interesting Times,” the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat moderates a debate between Helen Andrews, the author of the recent essay “The Great Feminization,” and Leah Libresco Sargeant, the author of “The Dignity of Dependence,” about the impact these virtues and vices may have on the workplace.

She has shown herself more willing than most to put aside her own ego for the greater good.

He’s sharp-elbowed, retributive and transactional, and won’t be missed.

But it’s still history.

Inside the minds of authoritarians.