Our constitutional framework for war lies in pieces around us.

James Fishback has managed to bring the paranoid, transgressive, meme-drunk spirit of the right-wing internet into the real world.

Will they finally capitalize on Trump?s chaos?

Either the budget changes, or America?s relationship with the rest of the world does.

Is Trump triumphing or has he committed a grave error? A debate on the Iran war.

Will they finally capitalize on Trump?s chaos?

Catastrophe in Cuba is not a foregone conclusion.

The new mayor is having a sunny honeymoon with New Yorkers. Will it last?

American goals are starting to conflict with Israel?s.

Readers respond to Daryl Hannah?s guest essay about a TV series? portrayal of her. Also: Remembering a visit to Iran; an exercise plan for life.

The next generation is more tech-skeptical than you think.

Trump?s Iran war will affect more than just gas prices.

The administration?s attacks on renewable energy mean higher costs for everyone.

The fairy tale was 1990s New York.

There is an alternate universe in which the president is the popular, successful figure of his imagination.

The United States and Israel have considered using Iranian Kurds as a ground force.

The best hope? Weaken the regime?s ability to lash out and resist an uprising.

Readers respond to a David French column on James Talarico, a Christian Democrat running for the Senate in Texas. Also: Good health and common sense; the upside of small talk.

What are we getting for all of President Trump?s military spending?

Nadia Schadlow, a deputy national security adviser during Trump?s first term, explains how the U.S.-Israel war with Iran fits in with an ?America first? agenda.

When disruption becomes destruction.

In a culture that can?t concentrate, perhaps our fixation on Oscar snubs is healthy.

Chatbots can teach us about human nature.

The early telephone didn?t spark panic. That doesn?t mean we?re wrong to panic about smartphones.

President Trump?s efforts to force the Western Hemisphere into alignment will keep falling short.

Only when the U.S.-Israeli bombing of Iran comes to a halt, without destroying the state, can the Iranian people sort out their fate.

Iran?s new supreme leader has been selected not to break with the regime but to preserve it.

As Iran chooses another hard-line leader, readers express anxiety about the war and its consequences.

Kristi Noem epitomizes the incompetence of this White House.

America is a big oil producer. But its overreliance on crude and the president?s efforts to keep it that way mean times like these can hurt.

The news is good. Really.

Old guard Republicans have maintained good governance in many red states, but MAGA chaos is coming for them, too.

Delusional infestation is one of the darkest embodiments of medical uncertainty.

The Trump administration failed to plan for evacuating either its diplomats or its citizens and did not adequately warn them.

What do declining birthrates really mean for the future? Readers respond to a front-page news article.

The Democratic Senate candidate in Texas is teaching us about what faith really means.

My parents were radical. Paul Thomas Anderson?s film is anything but.

The showdown between the Pentagon and Anthropic is a window into how unprepared we are for the questions we are facing.

A fashion insider and two culture writers dissect ?America?s Next Top Model.?

The Israeli government must address a crime wave in Palestinian towns.

I imagine the birds I see are the family members I?ve lost.

Her exasperation during her Epstein-related deposition channeled the national mood for some of us.

The U.S. and Israel have no good options to address an unavoidable problem.

Kristi and Corey cavorted in the swamp as D.H.S. got bogged down.

A week into Trump?s war in Iran, his strategy is still a mystery.

President Trump?s war in Iran isn?t so much a strategy as a game of ?Risk,? says the Times Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie. On ?The Opinions? podcast, he explains that the administration sees the world as ?we big, they small,? with other nations as non-playable characters reacting to America, the ?protagonists of reality.?

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