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