Readers discuss whether or not to quit hosting holiday celebrations. Also: How to lighten the load for busy judges.

There are no wallflowers in Trump’s White House.

The columnist Michelle Goldberg believes reclaiming the narrative on immigration should be America’s next story.

Making sense of a year of change.

The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.

For centuries, nobody has known who built the Florence Baptistery. Could A.I. crack the mystery?

What happens when the me, me, me generation enters its old era?

The world’s democracies cannot depend on the most powerful authoritarian state — and an increasingly aggressive one — for critical minerals.

The time has come for a Sixth Republic.

Shopping should be about lust. Instead, it’s become a slog.

Readers suggest ways to bring medical costs under control for average Americans. Also: Australia sets an example for the U.S. on gun laws.

The D.S.A. is still small. But as economic inequality keeps burning, Democratic Socialists are attracting intense interest and getting elected to office.

What will come in its wake?

Living in the upside-down kingdom of God.

She was a great-grandmother, and I was a millennial. We could have talked forever.

Children’s Aid provides free after-school programs for low-income New Yorkers that students love and parents see as a solution.

It’s all over but the shouting.

The right mastered influencer politics. Now they’re tearing the movement apart.

The secretary of state has somehow avoided becoming either a media fixation or a major player in the right’s unfolding psychodrama.

I spent years dreaming of giving up, but figuring out how, when the role of host had calcified around me like plaster, seemed impossible.

Jamelle Bouie argues that the administration already looks burned out — with three more years to go.

On “The Opinions” podcast, Jamelle Bouie argues we’re observing a presidency run by people pursuing “their own narrow ideological political goals using the president’s authority.”

Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and David French convene to discuss the year that was.

Major A.I. companies are competing to give their models the most appealing personality.

Per Scholas has helped over 30,000 people, about half of whom never graduated from a four-year college, break into careers in tech.

An eminent New Testament scholar recounts what he says was the message of Jesus that transformed the West.

When a judge has to ask if one ruling is a “safer choice for their family” than another, is it still justice? New Jersey judge Esther Salas explains how political attacks have threatened the foundation of the U.S. judiciary.

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.