The Iran conflict resembles others the United States has been involved in recently: easy to start and hard to end.

The short answer: not really. The long answer: maybe with a little help.

We?re on a #fitnessjourney together.

Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Clifford Winston on the death of the affordable car.

His political malpractice will loom large in the history of Trump 2.0.

The president is buried in the graveyard of vanity.

What moving deadlines ? and red lines ? in Iran means for America?s leverage.

I?ve been a lifelong follower of Michael Jackson, a stance that sometimes I can?t defend, even to myself.

Reversing the new vaccine skepticism will require a dedicated effort.

Trump owes the world an agreement with Iran to curb its pursuit of a bomb.

What moving deadlines ? and red lines ? in Iran means for America?s leverage.

How did looking back at the Earth for the first time change humanity?s perspective? The legendary thinker Stewart Brand tells the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein why we need to shift our focus from ?looking outward? to the essential, constant work of maintaining our civilizations and the planet itself.

Stewart Brand, an author and visionary, deeply influenced the internet era from the 1960s onward. Yet the systems he inspired have become fundamentally unintelligible to their creators. The Opinion columnist Ezra Klein explores the tension between Brand?s ?how to? philosophy and the black-box reality of modern A.I. on ?The Ezra Klein Show.?

Readers discuss why there are relatively few young people protesting against President Trump. Also: Psychotherapy for a change; Denmark and Ukraine.

Two recent fatal shootings underscore the need to encourage the use of an assessment tool.

The counterculture icon Stewart Brand is advocating values that are more countercultural than ever.

Rather than honestly reckoning with their role in America?s derangement, MAGA apostates are creating a scapegoat to explain it away.

To salvage a decent peace with Iran, President Trump must learn the lessons of his war.

The counterculture icon is advocating values that are more countercultural than ever.

In our constitutional system, we have to think about what will happen when the tables are turned.

In ?Divided,? four former D.E.I. leaders come together to examine the system they once built ? and question what it?s really doing.

The trucking industry captured its regulator, and safety suffered.

They championed diversity, equity and inclusion policies for years. Now they have complicated feelings about what they built.

They championed diversity, equity and inclusion policies for years. Now they have complicated feelings about what they built.

Nearly five years in Cuban prison have taught me that the government won?t loosen its hold on power.

Stability is the single biggest lie in financial markets, the investor and Bitcoin evangelist Anthony Pompliano tells the columnist Ross Douthat on ?Interesting Times.? The ?volatility generation? is embracing Bitcoin because traditional assets like Treasuries are actually designed to lose money, he argues.

Is there inherent corruption in Trump?s approach to cryptocurrency? Ross Douthat unpacks the Trump family?s crypto holdings with Bitcoin investor Anthony Pompliano and debates whether crypto is just an ?investment in vibes? that?s ?bound up in Trump?s political fortunes.?

Complications of spelling in English can lead to complications in pronunciation.

Readers respond to The Times?s front-page investigation of the court. Also: Lee Zeldin and the E.P.A.; talking to Iran.

What the crypto currency promises that the dollar doesn?t.

What fighting an unjust war really means.

He made his company a juggernaut, but he did so by risking America?s economic and political security.

Normal language is inadequate and precedents are irrelevant when it comes to appraising the senior administration officials of the president?s second term.

Big parts of the Rio Grande Valley turned against the party in recent years. One candidate is trying to win it back, one quinceañera at a time.

What the crypto currency promises that the dollar doesn?t.

Israeli leaders aren?t targeting just Hezbollah in the latest war. They are also attacking the multireligious fabric of Lebanese society.

Scenes from life in a global era increasingly shaped by confrontations with authoritarian power.

America?s social contract has broken down, Hasan Piker argues, and the wealthy steal, too ? just in ways that the system protects. So can shoplifting by the 99 percent be a form of political protest? Watch this episode of ?The Opinions? to hear the debate.

Would you steal from Whole Foods? On ?The Opinions,? Jia Tolentino and Hasan Piker join the Opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman for a candid conversation about microlooting, petty theft and the moral lines people draw, from shoplifting from big corporations to whether they?d ever dine and dash.

Don?t retreat from the world; engage it.

How the war?s disruptions are accelerating the shift to green energy.

Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Roger Rosenblatt. Also: The pianist András Schiff shows a way to protest.

Trump is betting on a quick victory, but Iran?s higher pain threshold means his blockade will prolong the war.

Why petty theft might be the new political protest.

Why petty theft might be the new political protest.

It?s the most iconic image of our planet. Decades before the Artemis II mission, a group of astronauts experienced an Earth rising for the first time. This Earth Day, hear their story and the story of a photograph that changed the way we think about our place in the universe.

It?s not just because of A.I. This started 40 years ago.

The president is one of a kind.

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