Since his election, Zohran Mamdani has made some surprisingly pragmatic or traditional choices — including his surreal meeting with President Trump.

War and diplomacy: Readers react to developments on Russia and Ukraine. Also: A global democracy deficit; a sad phone.

Conspiracy mongering about Epstein is making the progressive project impossible.

Thoughts on current and future of “a coalition uniquely built by Trump.”

The United States, not China, seems determined to upend the global order.

From the day he took the oath of office, the president has pursued policies that are making life in America less affordable.

Something new is happening in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country.

Trump’s show of force toward Venezuela has created a disastrous political trap — for Venezuelans most of all.

A brief history of the National Guard in Washington.

Why is it so hard for the right to draw a boundary at antisemitism in its coalition? According to Yoram Hazony, an Israeli political theorist, it’s because the group wasn’t prepared to navigate the “explosion” of antisemitism. In this week’s “Interesting Times,” he tells Ross Douthat how future leaders can have a bigger tent without giving people like Nick Fuentes “a seat at the table.”

Is the recent onslaught of antisemitism on the right a result of the Israel-Hamas war? In this episode of “Interesting Times,” Yoram Hazony, an Israeli political theorist, explains how foreign policy is just one of the various forms that anti-Jewish messaging can take.

Readers discuss what President Trump revealed in his meeting with the Saudi crown prince. Also: Albania’s A.I. “civil servant”; bullfighting as torture.

Kennedy has a rhetorical advantage in that his deceptions can be definitive while scientific honesty has to come with caveats.

A Honduran teenager and his family live in America’s new immigration landscape.

Have we been selling her short? Is she paving the way to the after-Trump?

Understanding the Right’s antisemitic turn.

The incompetence of the Trump administration is interfering with some of its worst excesses.

It’s deeper than Nick Fuentes.

Hochul can show how Democrats wary of a mayor-elect’s populist brand of socialism can push back against it.

Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.

For one undocumented teenager, there is no clear answer.

Working with imperfect partners does not mean that the United States should cover up and lie about their misdeeds.

All politics is global now — and that's especially true around immigration.

Readers react to the White House meeting between President Trump and the Saudi crown prince. Also: Skin care for little kids; when libraries close.

We need to support working-class kids before the 21st century abandons them completely.

They came bearing gifts. They left with what they wanted.

Women’s pain is not entertainment.

The internet should enrich people, not advertisers.

The internet should enrich people, not advertisers.