Being a smart consumer has never been easier. Influencers and the fashion industry are all taking advantage of that.

Make yourself an active member of your community.

Not too much religious moralism in the administration, but too little.

The demise of Hollywood has been predicted many times. If Netflix is allowed to acquire Warner Bros., it might actually happen.

Until the court imposes limits, the administration will keep acting as if there are none.

Did Pete Hegseth break the law after authorizing Venezuelan boat strikes? The Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, argues that there are multiple reasons the strikes were legally dubious.

Will the president soon wish he hadn?t run for a second term?

Share Our Strength takes on what both parties leave behind.

Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading.

Will the president soon wish he hadn?t run for a second term?

When students are treated like customers, they can demand educators grade accordingly.

?Trumpism without Trump is going to move in different directions because Trumpism was always a somewhat amorphous set of half-baked ideas,? Bret Stephens says.

?I think Americans ? those who are not spending all their lives on social media ? are so tired of the temperature of our political discourse,? Frank Bruni says on ?The Opinions.? The solution? A ?poetic and charismatic? centrist.

Don?t be shocked: There were Black people and Native Americans during the colonial era.

Readers react to President Trump?s disparaging comments about Somalis in the U.S. Also: Academic censorship; a prejudice against psychiatric medication.

We need to question the strikes? legality. But we also need to see how they fit into the Trump administration?s larger effort to change America.

When buyers can?t see the climate risks of prospective homes up front, they may take on more exposure than they can afford.

Once nativism escalates, it?s hard to stop.

We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.

Ezra Klein answers your questions on the year?s political lessons, the struggles of young men and handling heat on the show.

Generative A.I. needs a course correction for the sake of energy efficiency and for its own advancement.

Cartel extortion is pushing up prices in Mexico ? and becoming a political problem President Claudia Sheinbaum can?t ignore.

A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?

A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?

Attacks on Somali Americans are a cruel distraction.

Readers discuss an essay by Anand Giridharadas about Jeffrey Epstein?s circle. Also: The White House ballroom; Medicare for All; immigrant fears.

In this episode of ?Interesting Times,? Chase Strangio tells Ross Douthat how important it was to align his body with his sense of self.

Trump and Hegseth are attacking the very character and identity of the American military.

The administration is pausing asylum and upending families.

Having ?real estate deal guys? as America?s negotiators on the war in Ukraine is a liability, not an advantage. You want a statesman.

In Gaza and the West Bank, human rights work is starting to mean something new.

Rare pushback from his party and troubling poll numbers reflect the newly precarious situation in which Trump finds himself.

Bret Stephens, Frank Bruni and Aaron Retica on the gap between the president?s interests and what matters to Americans.

The lawyer and activist Chase Strangio on cultural divisions and common ground.

Bret Stephens, Frank Bruni and Aaron Retica on the gap between Trump?s interests and what matters to Americans.

Readers criticize President Trump?s tirade against Somali immigrants. Also: A cruel deportee deal; beyond tech bans.

Having a baby without any medical help is the logical outcome of a centuries-long medical freedom movement.

Jewish Currents is fighting the good fight.

A singer?s almost totally relatable look at the woes of aging.

In the right hands, the pardon power is too strong. In the wrong hands, it is disastrous.

Even if the wisdom of releasing the files is a nuanced issue, the president?s behavior has been indefensible.

Progressives have an opportunity to start thinking boldly again about how to conceive of and use public authority for Americans.

Centrist governments are failing badly in Europe?s leading economies, setting the stage for a far-right sweep.

Our problems run deeper than debates about affordability.

Federal lawmakers have ample powers to uncover and end administration abuse.

Don?t let Trump sell out its freedom for business deals with Putin.

Readers discuss the aftermath of a U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean. Also: Fixing Penn Station; Trumpism after Trump.

Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.

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