Saikat Chakrabarti and Zephyr Teachout offer their perspectives on why America struggles to build.

The courts are caught in the middle of a crisis, but it?s not something they can adequately remedy.

The president, one psychologist says, is a perfect example of ?authoritarian personality syndrome?

Louisiana is a legal black hole for immigrants.

Much of the British political class laughed at Nigel Farage in 2016. It isn?t laughing now.

Jews should remember how Trump promised to ?protect? L.G.B.T. citizens.

Six months ago, the victory of the ex-president wasn?t just a devastating defeat for the left; it also marked a tectonic shift. Now, though, the polling looks different.

Responses to a column by David Brooks about President Trump?s ?energy.? Also: Cutting regulations; a project for Democrats; a general?s call to arms; how to age well.

All good things come to an end. What about bad things?

Trump gave Apple a break. What about the lone entrepreneur?

Underlying many investments are breakthroughs in medicine and technology from great universities.

A diverse group of legal scholars flashes red warning lights about the future of America.

Opt-out voters don?t buy what we?re selling ? and even if they did, we?d have a hard time reaching them.

A once left-wing psychedelic movement has become tightly entwined with the Trump administration.

Going after antisemitism on campus has swept up Jewish students protesting the war in Gaza.

Trump?s approach risks leaving U.S. automakers isolated and incapable of competing on their own merits as foreign companies bolt ahead.

Readers respond to a column by Thomas L. Friedman. Also: Depression and aging; Paul Revere?s legacy.

The university?s defense of the Constitution doesn?t absolve it of its own sins, but the defense of the Constitution often comes through imperfect vehicles.

Donald Trump has set a new standard for egregious and potentially illegal behavior.

A conversation about the health secretary?s first two months.

This is more than a shift in foreign policy; it?s a divorce so comprehensive that it makes Brexit look modest by comparison.

The relationship between the national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Pope John Paul II proved critical in 1980 in dissuading the Soviets from invading Poland.

The world?s democracies can speak up to make Erdogan?s life less comfortable.

Thousands of ordinary Americans whose lives have been upended by forever chemicals are battling to end their use.

He wants to rule.

How I fell into and out of love with protein

After my dad was disappeared abroad, he fled to this land, which exemplified respect for law and a welcome for refugees. Until now.

Catfights abound in Trump?s macho world.

Don?t drop your guard while picking fights around the globe.

Opinion columnists break down the motives behind the president?s blitz of executive actions since he took office.

Even in a dire situation, you still need a response calibrated to reality.

Readers on reading: Responses to David Brooks?s column about the state of literacy in America.

Sampling the outpouring of reader responses to the comedian?s imaginary dinner with Hitler. Also: The law firms? test; a plea for democracy.

The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief ? at this moment in our politics and in our lives more generally.

Assenting to Russia?s annexation of Crimea would have global consequences.

The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

I don?t care if my child with autism ever pays taxes, but I do care that she may never have the opportunity to work or live independently.

Opinion columnists share the piece of media that most defines the first 100 days of Donald Trump?s second term.

Writing in a second language can feel unnatural, but it presents a new way for writers to understand who they are ? and how they fit into the world.

Hamdan Ballal won an Oscar for co-directing ?No Other Land,? then went home to the West Bank and was attacked and arrested.

It?s a moral imperative to try to rescue people like Andry Hernández Romero.

The episode of the inadvertent court filings in the New York congestion-pricing case embodies the full range of the Trump administration?s incompetence.

His initiative has been the key to much of his success, but lacking any sense of prudence, he does not understand the difference between a risk and a gamble.

If there?s one thing we can agree on, it?s that we have many ways to agree.

On Wednesday Trump complained about Zelensky. On Thursday, Putin. The two messages illustrate why he?s struggling to end the war.

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