The former president?s claim that he has absolute immunity for criminal acts taken in office as president is an insult to reason.

Turning the page on the man ? and on the politics he has fostered ? will require fundamentally changing the text of our founding document.

Ada Limón, the U.S. poet laureate, has a balm for your solastalgia.

Don?t bet the house on a rosy future.

The renowned author reflects on the fatwa ordered against him decades ago for his book ?The Satanic Verses? ? and surviving a brutal attack in 2022.

Motherhood often feels at odds with a research career.

But several members of the Supreme Court seem willing to put presidents above the rule of law.

Jamelle Bouie on what America?s history tells us about this moment.

He?s the most pro-labor president since Harry Truman. Is that enough?

Readers express concern about how the justices will rule on Donald Trump?s immunity claim. Also: An environmental decision for Alaska; Ralph Nader, on third parties.

Lessons from a tumultuous summer.

In this one instance, at least, he stood on principle.

Responses to an essay about risks of choking during sex. Also: Abortion and the Supreme Court; Columbia unrest; hiring discrimination; Trump?s ?fake news.?

To win a political campaign, you want to put your candidate in a setting that provides a chance to excel. For Trump, that?s the trial.

Never had our culture made the claiming of complaint such an animating force.

A ruling in the emergency abortion case heard at the high court on Wednesday could turn out abortion rights supporters to the polls.

A visit to Ukraine and Russia would allow my son to see that his mother?s native language wasn?t a quirk of hers but something normal for millions of people.

The suffering in the war in Gaza is unacceptable. Young people will make that point clear this summer in Chicago.

?There?s a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1.?

Republicans tried to quash the union drive with partisanship. It didn?t work.

Readers discuss a column by Nicholas Kristof. Also: Donald Trump, ?unprecedented?; tech in school; how sorrow changes us; California?s property taxes.

The effects of semaglutide drugs won?t be just cosmetic.

Screens in K-12 schools need ?a hard reset.?

Skepticism and distrust of health practitioners is on the rise. How are doctors supposed to restore patient trust?

She has, in very little time, undermined the influence of her party?s entire right flank.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to attempt to counter polarization at a time when partisan sectarianism is intense and pervasive.

Nicholas Kristof asks: Where has our moral president gone?

The new alliance structure Washington is pursuing in Asia won?t guarantee peace and stability ? and may raise the risk of stumbling into a conflict.

The court?s delay may have stripped citizens of the criminal justice system?s most effective mechanism for determining disputed facts: a trial.

Behavior that would be scandalous if aimed at other minorities is treated as understandable or even commendable when directed at Jews.

I do not believe that the Columbia demonstrators are driven by antisemitism, but their actions have gone way too far.

Lessons of Lend-Lease for the current crisis.

Readers, including parents of suspended students, discuss the unrest. Also: Responses to Liz Cheney on the Supreme Court and Donald Trump?s immunity claim.

We need history to support our foundations. But it can only do that with integrity if it exposes the failings.

It has never been more obvious that the Republican Party is the party of the boss.

Will the court go out of its way to disregard statutory language and create ambiguity where none exists?

The venerated editor Adam Moss walks through how to make good work great.

The left?s position on Israel has now become the Democratic Party?s, hinting at greater influence to come.

It?s not the crime; it?s the cover-up. But it?s still a highly flawed case.

In the 1970s, the filmmakers Claudia Weill and Eli Noyes interviewed New Yorkers across the city about their unwanted roommates: roaches.

In the 1970s, the filmmakers Claudia Weill and Eli Noyes interviewed New Yorkers across the city about their unwanted roommates: roaches.

Moldova is a cautionary tale for Ukraine.

The world is not always kind to visionaries with self-control issues.

Readers praise the House speaker over the passage of the aid bill. Also: A juror?s duty; banning guns; poverty and health; anxious parents and kids.

Ironically, the most conservative voices in the House are getting shut out.

We have become so separate from the natural world that we don?t feel safe in the presence of well maintained trees.

Who let the grown-ups out?

?Saving the planet? is the wrong goal.

She has seen the deep state up close and knows what needs to be done.

Giorgia Meloni is the model for the continent?s far right.

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