Texas politics is in constant churn.

We are trying to decide what role A.I. will have in our lives.

Hungary. Cuba. Afghanistan. Iraq. Now Iran?

Readers respond to a guest essay, ?Stop Worrying, and Learn to Love Industrial Food.?

On the sorry state of retirement savings in the United States, and a policy that could help.

Is Block?s announcement just a convenient and flashy new cover for typical corporate downsizing?

The state needs intelligent and responsible political leadership, but will it get it?

What better way to celebrate the nation?s 250th?

There is nothing inevitable about a Russian victory in Ukraine.

Now that Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, will another face replace his and carry on a version of the same story?

Has the president?s unerring instinct for vulnerability finally failed him?

Questions about the future of the attack on Iran, and other reader perspectives. Also: Drug ads as a resource for patients.

Donald Trump?s foreign policy vision is imperialism

Clavicular is a symptom of a larger disease.

The vice president?s political transformation from Trump skeptic to MAGA superstar has many roots.

The four law firms that fought Trump?s executive orders have forced him to retreat.

Ben Rhodes, a contributing Times Opinion writer, discusses why Trump waged war on Iran ? and why his predecessors didn?t dare to.

Ayatollah Khomeini?s bait-and-switch game in the early years of the Islamic regime turned many of the people against it. They?ve been fighting the revolution since.

Trump?s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.

The American public has received too little information to effectively judge the goals and objectives of the largest U.S. military operation in the Middle East in a generation.

Readers debate the justification for President Trump?s decision to take military action against Iran.

Ending the Islamic republic?s regime will be long and arduous, but perhaps a softer version will emerge.

The old U.S.-led order is dead. The new one feels unstable and ominous, as if a storm could descend at any moment.

California?s governor challenges the usual criteria for a presidential nominee.

The president still has a lot of leeway to impose tariffs. That?s an invitation for businesses to curry favor with him.

The World Cup is a chance for the U.S. to show it is more than Trump.

Too many hospice care responsibilities are placed on families.

The whooping cranes? fragile recovery highlights the need for renewed commitment to safeguarding America?s endangered species.

Friedrich Merz?s chancellorship is in choppy waters.

American hearts should be moved by moments like this, when free nations band together to administer justice and supply hope.

Readers offer varied perspectives, including praise and criticism, on the strikes again Iran.

In an age in which facts are losing their meaning, the performing arts can ground us in what is true.

No one should mourn Ayatollah Khamenei, but Trump is creating the opportunity for chaos and violence with his campaign against Iran.

Without a political transformation, Cuba?s economic recovery will remain an illusion.

We should not squander this moment, when Iran is uniquely weak and vulnerable and we hold all of the advantages ? literally.

The Constitution isn?t a technicality.

John Cornyn says his challenger doesn?t have the character to serve in the Senate. MAGA voters might not care.

How should Americans feel about the potential for regime change? What happens now?

The supreme leader organized his existence around one big idea: resistance.

The State of the Union was very revealing.

?The first mission of a president is to keep Americans safe,? says Times columnist Nicholas Kristof following the United States and Israel?s military strike against Iran Saturday. ?In this case I fear that President Trump, by embarking on a war of choice, has made us less safe and may be putting Americans at risk for months or years to come.?

U.S. military interventions have often gone poorly for the countries in question. But there is much the world, and Iranians, can do.

We don?t know how likely it is that the attacks will be successful, nor what costs or risks they bring.

The U.S. military was once a tool of last resort for American presidents.

?America?s Next Top Model? was bad. The reality of fashion was often worse.

Anxiety about Netflix gives way to anxiety about layoffs.

Better to put this power in the hands of private industry or government officials?

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