Readers respond to an essay criticizing U.S. Democrats’ failure to resolve the conflict in Gaza. Also: Trump’s Kennedy Center rebrand; blaming immigrants after the Brown shooting.

All policy decisions have trade-offs, and cannabis legalization is no exception.

The speaker emerita is disappointed and a little surprised that the presidential glass ceiling remains intact, but confident that it will change.

Monica-Grace Mukendi’s career demonstrates the lasting impact of OneGoal, a nonprofit that helps low-income students attend college.

There’s no getting around this if we want to avoid the deficit cliff ahead.

Adults need to set up rules for students so that it’s not on them to self-regulate when it comes to going tech-free.

How providence and loss helped shape “The Lord of the Rings.”

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ever more elaborate workarounds.

America is in its pessimism era, and Trump is playing on it, argues the columnist David Brooks in this episode of The Conversation.

“A lot of people are seeing some things that are really bad for Donald Trump,” David Brooks says in this episode of The Conversation.

As a politician, Justin Trudeau was an excellent celebrity. And the rest of the world could learn a useful lesson from how he wielded his star power.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s release from immigration detention last week offers a useful model for how Democrats can successfully challenge the Trump administration, the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie argues.

Readers respond to a guest essay on why the recent boat strikes by the Trump administration are unjustified.

The participants discuss their experiences with taking GLP 1s for weight loss and diabetes.

Bravery and cowardice are both exemplary teachers.

Trump is giving himself an A-plus-plus-plus, but the rest of America is anxious.

Joyce Arthur says she is a living testimony to the benefit of investing in African girls’ education.

Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.

The rise in judicial threats is being fueled by the political rhetoric of the Trump administration, a judge argues.

Trump is giving himself an A-plus-plus-plus, but the rest of America is anxious.

The rise in judicial threats is being fueled by the political rhetoric of the Trump administration, argues the judge Esther Salas.

We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.

National security shouldn’t ever have a price.

Readers react to Daniela Lamas’s essay on the moral dilemma posed by a patient who refused her advice, then died. Also: Managing methane on farms.

I was wrong about how to push back.

Why are the Supreme Court and Congress conspiring to give him more power?

In life and art, he was the successor to Norman Lear.

It all comes down to coordination.

For people like Deborah Otts, an online community can be lifesaving.