Opinion

The agency’s bold decision to cut its policy interest rate significantly affirms its commitment to keep the labor market strong.

By Claudia Sahm

The cut was “jumbo.” The implications are bigger.

By Paul Krugman

I used to think I knew him. History has proved me wrong.

By John McWhorter

Readers discuss the wave of attacks in Lebanon. Also: Donald Trump’s golf outing; the state of bridges in America; the importance of voting.

We invite you to get creative with your letter writing.

Here’s a script with which she could explain her evolution.

By Frank Bruni

Voodoo economics at least had a flawed theory behind it; Trump’s brand is based on some kind of brain glitch.

By Paul Krugman

How can different religions be “like different languages in order to arrive at God”?

By David French

David French explores what keeps Trump’s followers hooked.

By David French and Jillian Weinberger

The danger isn’t nearly as great as it was a few months ago, but things could still get screwed up.

By Gail Collins

Questions can be crystallizing for candidates and voters, and some politicians have had their finest moments answering tough questions on their feet.

By Todd S. Purdum

Too often, authorities stick to erroneous positions despite countervailing evidence.

By Pamela Paul

Gendered and racial narratives that have long stalked the interactions between white and Black women have come to dominate the talk about these two W.N.B.A. players.

By Esau McCaulley

Money to monitor air quality in some of the most polluted places in the world can lead to cleaner air and healthier populations.

By Christa Hasenkopf

Experts are rushing to redefine obesity amid soaring demand for new weight loss drugs.

By Julia Belluz

The Springfield fable is part of a crusade to throw immigrants out of the country.

By Charles M. Blow

“So many men were killed, like grains of sand,” says one survivor.

By Nicholas Kristof

The global war on terror changed the course of American history. So why have we forgotten about it?

By David Wallace-Wells

If anything, the cutting should have begun earlier.

By Peter Coy

Readers are upset by the columnist’s uncertainty about voting for Kamala Harris. Also: Donald Trump’s “audacity”; Afghanistan; teaching the Bible; pressure on teenagers.

When ‘states’ rights’ means subverting the will of the people.

By Jessica Grose

In the world of political fund-raising, there is hard money, soft money, dark money — and Leonard Leo money.

By Thomas B. Edsall

When you start talking about people “poisoning the blood of our country,” this is where you end up. And it’s not over.

By Jamelle Bouie

Instead of treating real estate as a commodity, we can underwrite the construction of millions of permanently affordable homes and apartments.

By Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Tina Smith

The Nobel-winning economist has some advice for Jerome Powell.

By Paul Krugman and Vishakha Darbha

Here’s a hint: It’s not about linguistic purity.

By Elizabeth Spiers

It is more important than ever in an era of grossly excessive punishments and mass incarceration.

By Rachel E. Barkow and Mark Osler

Children are growing up in the same camps as the Islamic State’s true believers. This is inhumane, and it’s not making anyone safer.

By Myriam Francois and Azeem Ibrahim

It’s not enough to be “Not Trump.”

By Bret Stephens

The spirit of Trofim Lysenko comes to trade policy.

By Paul Krugman

The explosion of wireless devices across Lebanon casts in sharp relief the challenges of U.S. foreign policy facing Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.

By Thomas L. Friedman

Readers discuss the harm from the lies about immigrants eating dogs and cats. Also: The guns; Americans in exile; the pope and the election; the debates.

The novelist on everything from the “amorphous” self to aging and mystery.

By Ezra Klein

One way to quantify the value of a product is to find out how many of the people who use it wish it had never been invented.

By Jonathan Haidt and Will Johnson

Did Chief Justice John Roberts not realize his immunity ruling would be seen as a victory for Trump?

By Jesse Wegman

Why it’s too early to join the “it’s over” chorus.

By Kristen Soltis Anderson

You remember Hurricane Katrina. Why not that lethal heat wave?

By Eric Klinenberg and Kristina Samulewski

There’s a natural world trapped within our cities.

By Karsten Wall

There’s a natural world trapped within our cities.

By Karsten Wall

The focus group’s participants weigh Trump and Harris in the wake of the Sept. 10 debate.

By Patrick Healy, Frank Luntz and Adrian J. Rivera

Why didn’t a Georgia hospital save Amber Nicole Thurman?

By Michelle Goldberg

Political rhetoric isn’t the only problem — it’s access to weapons.

By Gabrielle Giffords

Immigration to small cities creates jobs for everyone.

By Paul Krugman

The pay gap between older and younger workers has widened. The solutions aren’t obvious.

By Peter Coy

Readers criticize the country’s lax gun laws. Also: “The Power Broker” at 50; air-conditioning; phones in school; polluting cruise ships; still summer.

In my lowest moments, I look to the people who have devoted their lives to pursuing justice no matter what.

By Margaret Renkl

Is there a way for us to make the “American berserk” a little less … berserk?

By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens

Much of the good news about green energy is coming out of one country.

By David Wallace-Wells

A philosopher wants to take back the issue from conservatives.

By Anastasia Berg and Sophia Alvarez Boyd

How one drug might work for weight, fertility and dementia.

By Daniela J. Lamas

Israel’s annexation of the occupied West Bank is not a future prospect; it is a fact of life. Israelis and Palestinians live in a one-state reality.

By Hagai El-Ad

Responses to an exposé about the Acadia Healthcare chain of psychiatric hospitals. Also: Taxes on tips; nonpartisan elections; sitting still in school.

Residents rarely learn how data centers and their noise and energy and water use may affect their lives until it’s too late.

By Sean Patrick Cooper

The vice president should triple down on the issue to clinch this race.

By Cecile Richards

The country lies at the heart of overlapping conspiracy theories important to the former president.

By David French

The Wellstone tradition of left-populism, once so central to the Democratic Party’s brand, must be recovered.

By Ross Barkan

China is ending international baby adoptions but for those who were sent overseas as infants, the search for belonging and identity goes on.

By Cindy Zhu Huijgen

The case for “mindful underparenting.”

By Darby Saxbe

The senator’s anti-Haitian lies are putting people in danger.

By Jamelle Bouie

An event for the magazine Jewish Currents took a surprising turn.

By M. Gessen

His plan involves kicking millions of Americans off their health insurance.

By Elizabeth Warren

2024 and the dilemmas of the elite-populist deadlock.

By Ross Douthat

We often focus on doomsday scenarios, but we shouldn’t let them distract us from other consequences of climate change like impaired learning, crime, suicide — even slipping off ladders.

By Nicholas Kristof

Audiences saw a hit adaptation of the Japanese story “Shogun” back in 1980. But it was very different from today’s version, and America was different then, too.

By Matt Alt

Readers discuss Nicholas Kristof’s column urging Democrats not to demean Trump supporters.

There is something particularly insidious about his claim that Haitian immigrants are eating household pets.

By Lydia Polgreen

His economic agenda would concentrate more power in the hands of the president.

By Peter Coy

Can pro-life states survive in a pro-choice country?

By Ross Douthat

By Jesse Wegman

Readers discuss diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Also: The debate; Donald Trump’s mental state; the Sentinel missile program; a walker in Manhattan.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas explains what his agency has done to address the challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border.

By Ezra Klein

Trump has made himself the most hated person in America, and that’s the way he wants it.

By Michael Hirschorn

A successful presidency is much more about organization, vision and values than it is the scope of a given legislative package.

By Jamelle Bouie

The athletes’ stories help her understand her own.

By Samantha Hurley

A good debate doesn’t decide an election.

By Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Jamelle Bouie

A misunderstanding of brain chemistry and neural circuitry has made people believe they should avoid pleasure.

By Maia Szalavitz

It is not prepared for the fact that artificial-intelligence-powered autonomous weapons systems are changing the fundamental nature of war.

By Raj M. Shah and Christopher M. Kirchhoff

People can be bitter for only so long. Harris’s happy strength may offer a glimpse of a sunnier national mood to come.

By David Brooks

Trying to come up with a viable alternative to the Affordable Care Act would probably just mean reinventing it.

By Paul Krugman

I’ve seen firsthand that this scenario does not play out the way alarmists think it does.

By John McWhorter

To me, this is the biggest political dynamic coming out of Tuesday’s debate.

By Patrick Healy

Readers offer different answers in response to a guest essay. Also: Protests on campus; China’s adoption policy; Trump the fixer; hearing loss.

Her careful cramming and his cocky hamming tell you all you need to know.

By Frank Bruni

Apparently, this election is about … pets.

By David French

Some regarded the timing as brilliant, others as bizarre. I promise you, she doesn’t care.

By Jennifer Weiner

Doctors underestimate the pain of IUD insertion.

By Christine Henneberg

Optimistic words and some admirable proposals aren’t enough to overcome the discontent and anger that a large majority of Americans feel about the economy.

By Jedediah Britton-Purdy

Binyamin Appelbaum on why Harris’s ill-defined plan is still better than Trump’s.

By Binyamin Appelbaum and Jillian Weinberger

You can now lease federal property to restore it, not just to mine, cut or graze it.

By Shawn Regan

Much ado has been made of euphemism inflation. While it’s easy to make fun of it, it’s worth examining its logic.

By Pamela Paul

The vice president successfully baited Trump’s angry, conspiratorial, free-associating side. But what wasn’t said was just as telling.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

The debate analysis you didn’t know you needed.

By Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the Gregory Brothers

The debate analysis you didn’t know you needed.

The election is too close to call, but the vice president has exposed the former president.

By Charles M. Blow

The elections went well. It’s what came afterward that is worrying.

By David Wallace-Wells

Readers analyze the candidates’ performances, the moderators, the likely impact and claims of pet-eating.

Accepting that is the first step toward making it more tolerable.

By Jessica Grose

Some voters may still be left looking for an answer.

By Kathleen Kingsbury

A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science.

By Thomas B. Edsall

Two Opinion writers break down the Trump-Harris debate.

By Michelle Goldberg, Patrick Healy and Vishakha Darbha