Opinion

Pamela Paul and Carlos Lozada dig into the former first lady’s “book-adjacent object.”

By Carlos Lozada, Pamela Paul and Derek Arthur

The state’s changing electorate and America’s polarized politics have turned Montana’s Senate race into the most consequential of the year.

By Michelle Cottle

When presidents try to influence the central bank, they tend to push for lower interest rates — and that’s the problem.

By Donald L. Kohn

As chief law enforcement officers, sheriffs shape how laws around immigration, guns, health and much else play out at the local level.

By Maurice Chammah

What was email but the chance for more friends, more love, more work?

By Ann Patchett

How do you cope when an abusive family member becomes terminally ill?

By Frøydis Fossli Moe

How do you cope when an abusive family member becomes terminally ill?

By Frøydis Fossli Moe

The past few weeks have been a brutal reminder that ignorance or the claiming of it can be a convenient tool of the powerful.

By Valentine Faure

His grim vision of America seems stuck in the past.

By Paul Krugman

He and his acolytes purged the G.O.P. to make it smaller and more strident.

By Michelle Goldberg

Readers discuss a guest essay about ChatGPT’s bedside manner. Also: Breast cancer screenings; Walz’s missteps; supporting the mental health of schoolchildren.

The artificial intelligence start-up behind ChatGPT needs a legal structure that ensures its commitments can be enforced.

By Andrew Kassoy

It’s been a long year. That won’t stop it from being a very long 22 days.

By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens

I wish you could see what happens to the magnificent colors of berry and bird and flower in the slanting autumn light.

By Margaret Renkl

David French argues the solution is simpler than we think.

By David French and Sophia Alvarez Boyd

The PRESS Act has unanimous support in the House, but a few senators are blocking it.

By The Editorial Board

The success of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza shouldn’t obfuscate the threat of other diseases.

By Mohammed Aghaalkurdi

Food is the springboard to talk about a host of issues, including climate, economic justice, public health and labor.

By Mark Bittman

As a Latina, I was taught that my purpose was to produce. But I needed a break.

By Jean Guerrero

Trump remains well outside a bipartisan consensus on competing with China.

By Rush Doshi

I had only recently moved to Tampa and before the storm didn’t feel connected to the place.

By Katelyn Ferral

Readers offer their personal stories in response to a guest essay. Also: Trump and baseball; G.O.P. mirage machine; S.N.L. and Gerald Ford; unforeseen crises.

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission represents something bigger than just the study of an icy moon of Jupiter.

By Claire Isabel Webb

Public health agencies are pushing us to get flu vaccines too far ahead of the winter flu season.

By Jeremy Samuel Faust

Democrats should make it clear that Cuomo has no political future in New York — not in City Hall and not in Albany.

By Mara Gay

They can’t tell you what you want to know.

By Ezra Klein

November’s second-most-important election is in Florida.

By David French

Lawyers should remember what they were taught in ethics class.

By Kate Shaw

His hostility has taught me more about myself.

By Carlos Lozada

Fool me once? Shame on you. Fool me five times?

By Jamelle Bouie

These are some of our favorites from among more than 800 submissions in response to our request for variations on traditional letters.

For the presidential candidates, the media future is now.

By Ross Douthat

The vice president needs to pull out all the stops to get out of her stall.

By Maureen Dowd

My attempt at explaining the murder, rape and famine in Sudan.

By Nicholas Kristof

Honorable public servants of both parties upheld democracy after the 2020 election. America is counting on them again to do their duty.

By The Editorial Board

The way he is now running is the best window we have into what kind of president he will be in a second term.

By Katherine Miller

Much of what’s still undeveloped offers some the best defenses against climate change.

By Ted Kerasote

I’m taking steps to secure my future in an uncertain time for trans people in America.

By Jennifer Finney Boylan

The state has taken steps to shore up its insurance market, but researchers warn of looming risks.

By Peter Coy

How cognitive dissonance shapes both sides of the abortion debate.

By Ross Douthat

Readers discuss recent hurricanes and actions that citizens can take. Also: Jack Smith’s timing; the Supreme Court and the campaign; therapy as health care; a Trumpian character.

The Nobel Peace Prize recognized the dangerous path humanity is taking.

By W.J. Hennigan

How did we get here?

By Frank Bruni

The Democratic candidate would bring three things the country desperately needs: stability, unity and optimism.

By Joe Klein

The journalist discusses his experience visiting Israel and the West Bank.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

Three columnists explore what Kamala Harris’s appeal to conservatives means for the left.

By Lydia Polgreen, Jamelle Bouie and Michelle Goldberg

Critics may argue about specific factual details, but a new account of Trump’s ascent jibes with everything I saw with my own eyes.

By Tony Schwartz

It’s not indoctrination that’s keeping a majority of younger voters out of the Republican column.

By Jamelle Bouie

A trendy management style called “founder mode” illustrates Silicon Valley’s growing tilt toward authoritarianism.

By Kim Scott

Lawmakers must assert their power to reject the justices’ interpretations of the Constitution and enact their own.

By Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan

Europe will not be secure — and will not be whole and free — until Ukraine is in NATO. Ukraine will not agree to end the war without membership.

By William B. Taylor

Some tips from novelists and screenwriters on how to keep audiences’ attention.

By David Brooks

Readers respond to an editorial and critiques of the former president by those who have worked with him. Also: young voter outreach; L.G.B.T.Q. Jews; the war in Gaza; Robert Moses.

Parents have no monopoly on modesty.

By Frank Bruni

Say no to court packing — and yes to term limits.

By David French

Gary Oldman’s performance as Jackson Lamb is both essential and unknowable.

By Brent Staples

Mireille Silcoff knows her strategy was outrageous. That’s the point.

By Mireille Silcoff and Kristina Samulewski

Our officials and our ballots may be in physical danger.

By Robert A. Pape

The future of America’s public health agencies looks bleak under Trump.

By Rick Bright

If manufacturing returns, it will look nothing like the renaissance being promised by Harris and Trump.

By Rebecca Patterson

When I made an A.I. voice clone and released it in the world, I thought I could fool friends and thwart telemarketers. But the clone had other consequences.

By Evan Ratliff

The $1.7 trillion overhaul is already underway.

By W.J. Hennigan

The latest threat to our right to speak freely comes all the way from the 1700s.

By Jacob D. Charles and Matthew L. Schafer

The vice president needs to speak with voters directly.

By Charles M. Blow

The real lesson of Adams’s mayoralty has nothing to do with corruption.

By David Wallace-Wells

Readers discuss Donald Trump’s age and cognitive patterns. Also: A traumatized Israel; the “ghost guns” case; Eric Adams; A.I. and nuclear power.

Covid learning loss and chronic absenteeism aren’t going to fix themselves

By Jessica Grose

The Justice Department should not have allowed revelations about the Trump Jan. 6 case to be disclosed so close to Election Day.

By Jack Goldsmith

We need to be honest about what has become the most expensive and deadliest kind of natural disaster in the United States.

By Porter Fox

The former president’s history of merchandising himself may be broadly revealing in unexpected ways.

By Thomas B. Edsall

There are strong parallels between police misconduct and the indictments at City Hall.

By Mara Gay

“Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die.”

By Feroze Sidhwa

Gen Z men could swing the election. Trump knows that.

By Daniel Pfeiffer and Jillian Weinberger

On television, medical stories end with a diagnosis and a return to normalcy. In reality, they are far more complicated.

By Daniela J. Lamas

Even supporters of Palestinian statehood should want Hamas and Hezbollah to lose.

By Bret Stephens

The shock jock has become a required stop for Democratic politicians.

By Michelle Cottle

There’s only one venue where Harris would have another opportunity to speak to 67 million people at once.

By David Swerdlick

Readers reflect on the devastation, the recovery and climate havens. Also: An ex-hostage’s plea; the women who accuse Donald Trump; a Trump rally.

Trump has successfully trained millions of Americans to think of the truth as an obstacle to winning power.

By Jamelle Bouie

The polls are very, very stable in spite of events.

By Kristen Soltis Anderson

The journalist Franklin Foer traced the Biden administration’s diplomacy in the Middle East since Oct. 7 and emerged with an “anatomy of a failure.”

By Ezra Klein

Since Oct. 7, 80 percent of the schools in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. Mosab Abu Toha reflects on what has been lost.

By Mosab Abu Toha and Derek Arthur

History has presented Mr. Cuomo with an opportunity. But it’s one that New York voters may not swallow.

By Andrew Kirtzman

The American president promised equality. He didn’t deliver.

By Peter Beinart

Democrats have spent too much time drawing symbolic distinctions with Republicans without illuminating substantive differences.

By Charles Coleman Jr.

It doesn’t challenge stereotypes; it reinforces them.

By Ruth Whippman

The participants discuss the vice-presidential debate and if and how it influenced their vote for president.

By Patrick Healy, Frank Luntz and Adrian J. Rivera

But not quite in the way you may think.

By Paul Krugman

The labor market isn’t as healthy as the September jobs report suggests. And Americans know it.

By Peter Coy

An overflow of Trump-inspired misinformation on the disaster of Helene has impeded the recovery.

By Frank Bruni

Readers respond to a column by Bret Stephens. Also: Republicans’ plans to challenge the election; Vanderbilt’s leader, on flawed college rankings.

Mairav Zonszein argues there will be a cost to her country’s “indifference” toward Palestinians.

By Mairav Zonszein and Vishakha Darbha

No one said it was going to be easy for Kamala Harris.

By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens

Hurricane Helene has reminded us. Climate change has stacked the deck against all of us.

By Margaret Renkl

If it loses its institutional credibility, it will be powerless when it matters most.

By Nancy Gertner and Stephen I. Vladeck

What it’s like to get the neglected disease.

By Anthony Fauci

The lawlessness and state violence directed at Palestinians for so long have at last started to seep into Jewish Israeli society.

By Mairav Zonszein

One year after being attacked, Israel has not won the battle on the ground or the battle for a good story to tell about itself and this war.

By Thomas L. Friedman

My name is Yaffa Adar. I’m 86 years old. I was a hostage of Hamas.

By Yaffa Adar

A writer reconsiders the value of literature and goes back to school to study behavioral change — and maybe change himself.

By Tom Rachman