Readers react to Sarah Wildman’s guest essay about the free-range childhood depicted in the Rob Reiner film “Stand by Me.”

Trump girls gone wild — or just gone.

Loyal losers don’t go very far with this president.

A look at a conflict without end and a constitution under pressure.

I was onstage for the first Broadway version of ‘Cats.’ A new reimagining showed me something about the show I never expected.

As one expert puts it, this war is “an operational success but a huge strategic failure.”

Our strength and leverage over events in Iran are growing, not diminishing.

Tax preparation companies and Republicans are pursuing their shared interest in torturing taxpayers.

From Tehran to the Supreme Court, a look at Trump’s relentless battles.

If Iran wins this war, victory “will be tremendously emboldening for a regime that has been very dangerous even at its weaker moments,” Suzanne Maloney, the director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, argues on “The Ezra Klein Show.”

Iran will become “the toll collector at the gulf” if Trump preemptively walks away from the conflict in Iran, Suzanne Maloney, the director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, argues on “The Ezra Klein Show.”

Iran believes time is on its side, and that the West isn’t ready for the economic shock of a blocked Strait of Hormuz, warns Suzanne Maloney, the director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution.

Forget futuristic glass domes filled with plants and high-tech infrastructure, Jared Isaacman, the head of NASA, says of humanity’s first space colonies. In reality, because of the cost of travel, they will most likely be scrappy bases surrounded by garbage.

Readers react to President Trump’s firing of the attorney general. Also: A.I. and therapy.

The Iran expert Suzanne Maloney explains how Iran views the war, and why the United States is losing.

The pain inflicted on Iran has not forced it into submission. It is not clear what will.

It may be a new world, but “it’s the same Constitution.”

The Iran expert Suzanne Maloney explains why Iran believes it has the upper hand.

Gavin Newsom seems to have concluded that progressive models of manliness are passé.

The files reveal the mechanics of doubt that the #MeToo movement had to contend with.

There is a morality to verbs, especially in political speech.

For more than three years, Giorgia Meloni’s leadership of Italy has seemed unshakable. Now she suddenly seems vulnerable.

A case of mistaken identity, or a profound experience of grief? The religious scholar Bart Ehrman argues that the earliest accounts of Jesus’ Resurrection might be rooted in the way we process loss.

It might sound obvious now, but helping your neighbor wasn’t always seen as a moral imperative. The New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman explains how Jesus’ teachings shape the way we all view our role in society today.

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.