It is time for California to catch up to its own past.

A new politics of morality is rising in the Democratic Party.

It starts with ?We the People? for a reason.

David Wallace-Wells speaks with the economist and law professor Natasha Sarin about what the coming A.I. I.P.O.s could mean for your retirement account.

President Trump?s decision to place Bill Pulte at the head of the U.S. intelligence community is not just another poor personnel choice. It?s a warning.

There?s ample cause for celebration and consternation alike.

The rest of the world has been writing one of the more remarkable chapters in modern financial history ? and many have hardly noticed.

Is the U.S.-Israel alliance doing more harm than good? Matt Duss, the executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, joins ?The Ezra Klein Show? to discuss whether the strategic and moral costs of the U.S.-Israel alliance outweigh the benefits.

It depends on both ideas and cultural inheritance.

None of the participants in the recent wars of the Middle East can claim victory. All are to blame.

The Senate race in Maine is a chance to do away with inconsistent standards applied according to political bias.

Why don?t women get the care they deserve during menopause? According to Melinda French Gates, even medical providers don?t receive the training they need ? at the expense of women?s health and well-being.

Proposed rules would ravage the world?s most productive scientific enterprise.

Readers, including Drew Faust, a former president of Harvard, respond to a column by David French. Also: President Trump?s tax burden; time to rebuild trust.

Matt Duss, Senator Bernie Sanders?s former foreign policy adviser, argues that Democrats need a foreign policy reckoning.

The ?fake news? revolution is in full swing.

There is a lot to gripe about. There?s also a lot to like.

Matt Duss, Senator Bernie Sanders?s former foreign policy adviser, argues that Democrats need a foreign policy reckoning.

Try nuance and compromise.

Luuk van Middelaar, a Dutch scholar, is emerging as the continent?s master strategist.

The SpaceX I.P.O. proves the stock market has become a hype machine.

Graham Platner is not just a candidate for the Senate in Maine, argues the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie on ?The Opinions,? but also a representative of ?an intra-Democratic Party factional battle.? Bouie says the arguments around Platner resemble a proxy fight unfolding within the party.

Readers discuss President Trump?s explosive interview on NBC and his fawning cabinet. Also: Weakened voting rights; Mr. Trump on a $250 bill.

Bottom trawlers kill or maim everything in their path. We should ban ? or at least curtail ? the incredibly harmful practice.

There?s an argument for candidates who?ve served in the military.

The Georgia senator is excoriating Trump and his systemic corruption in a way that transcends the Democratic Party?s progressive-moderate divide.

Since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, aggression and expansionism have come to define Israel?s foreign policy.

A.I. tutoring is seductive, but ultimately ineffective.

The middle class is larger than you think, and growing.

In destroying what remained of a relatively free internet, Vladimir Putin has broken a longstanding social contract.

Trump has ushered in a new era of fuzzy foreign policy. In an era when powerful leaders are tempted to blur the lines of legal borders, the political scientists Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein warn about the dangerous ramifications of their taking what they please.

Readers respond to an doctor?s essay about the health care system?s failures to meet the needs of postpartum mothers. Also: Hungary as a role model.

There are lessons in competitive fighting that I never expected to learn.

We decided to make the trek and find out.

The Tony Awards nominees are not dangerous this year.

Russia?s decline has given Turkey the freedom to pursue its interests, and Ukraine is the beneficiary.

The American foreign policy class should shed its addiction to military force.

The best pathway out is to make Congress great again.

Trust, well-being and mental health are all down in America. But some states are better to live in than others, according to a new study.

And what the Maine candidate reveals about politics today.

Some continue to like it hot.

How to criticize an inevitable disruption.

The benefits of fatherhood are deep and long lasting.

Readers respond to a guest essay about the university?s new 20 percent cap on A grades.

And what the Maine candidate reveals about politics today.

?This is an ideology that is born out of fat modernity itself,? the journalist Helen Lewis argues on ?The Ezra Klein Show,? where she explains why the online right?s fascination with hypermasculinity is a bored delusion made possible by the safety of modern life.

Why does the modern, online vision of masculinity feel so ?deeply depressing?? In conversation with the journalist Helen Lewis, the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein explains how leading right-wing figures weaponize the word ?virtue? to mask a lack of moral and civic obligation.

Readers respond to Senator Chris Van Hollen?s call on the Democratic Party to push Israel to work on a two-state solution. Also: Options for mothers.

?Trump loses more often, on more things, than most.?

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