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