The core of Mr. Trump’s dissatisfaction with the attorney general was apparently her failure to serve his need for revenge against his enemies.

The president failed to provide any meaningful strategy on the two central issues that define the war on Iran: reopening the Strait of Hormuz and what to do about that country’s uranium.

Being authentic or relatable shouldn’t mean being inarticulate.

His speech told us very little, at least explicitly, but revealed quite a lot.

President Trump’s Wednesday night address about the war in Iran is evidence of how poorly his war of choice is going, the columnist Jamelle Bouie argues.

Readers respond to President Trump’s speech on the war. Also: Asian Americans at risk; civic eduction for the 250th; a veteran’s view.

Tastelessness and classlessness are the least of our concerns.

A ‘Christian Atheist’ joins Ross Douthat.

The columnist M. Gessen sits down with the writer Harriet Clark to talk through the complexity of maintaining relationships with family members who have done unthinkable things.

A ‘Christian Atheist’ joins Ross Douthat.

Removing child sexual abuse material from the internet exacts a heavy toll on the workers tasked with reviewing it.

What’s really behind all these attempts to revive American industry?

Removing child sexual abuse material from the internet exacts a heavy toll on the workers tasked with reviewing it.

Starving Cubans does nothing to advance American interests.

The case is open-and-shut on the merits. But its procedural course still leaves plenty of room for Trump administration overreach.

Readers discuss the justices’ decision on gay conversion therapy. Also: An immigrant’s story; a list of Jews at Penn?

In Iran, the schedule is our most malleable illusion.

The term “high agency” is an ethos for a gambler’s time.

Trump is on a mission to eliminate birthright citizenship, a right long thought to be guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. But how will the Supreme Court respond? The legal journalist Cristian Farias shares his insights.

Trump wants to find out just how weak this Supreme Court is.

We owe it to American service members and their families to be truthful about the risks involved and why we are at war.

Higher oil prices and limited supply will accelerate a turn toward cleaner technologies, especially in Asia and Europe.

In the Indiana primaries, a crucial test of the MAGA loyalty machine.

Trump wants to take away a fundamental American promise.

Even opponents of the conflict should want to see Iran defanged and defeated.

Why none of America’s faiths have taken mainline Protestantism’s place.

If it’s possible to put plants to sleep using anesthesia, what does that say about whether they’re conscious? Can they feel pain? The author Michael Pollan explores this “spooky and interesting” discovery on “The Ezra Klein Show.”

“The brain exists to keep the body alive, not the other way around,” argues the author Michael Pollan as he explores the connection between consciousness and the body in this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

Trump should set aside his 15-point peace plan and reduce it to these two points.