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Nov 23, 2020
The government needs stringent standards for how states report Covid-19 testing.
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Nov 23, 2020
An obscene conspiracy theory from the past echoes loudly in the present.
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Nov 23, 2020
Trashing the nation on his way out the door.
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Nov 23, 2020
An anti-gun-violence group writes about the effectiveness of "red flag" laws, which keep guns out of the hands of potential suicides. Also: Alfred E. Neuman and Donald Trump.
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Nov 23, 2020
A physician urges people to stay home on Thanksgiving, a nurse begs for more P.P.E. and a widower worries about people not getting care for other diseases.
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Nov 23, 2020
The explanation is much more paradoxical than just popularity.
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Nov 23, 2020
A domestic transformation of the United States would have a tremendous impact in the region.
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Nov 23, 2020
There is nothing funny about the Republican Party's multipronged attack on voting rights.
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Nov 23, 2020
Against overwhelming state violence, poetry might appear to offer little recourse. But for many Uighurs, it's a powerful form of resistance.
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Nov 23, 2020
The president and his enablers may look like fools, but they are causing real damage.
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Nov 23, 2020
Even before the pandemic, this holiday was a reminder of loved ones gone before.
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Nov 23, 2020
The president has been trying to dismantle our shared beliefs about democracy. And now, his fellow Republicans are helping him.
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Nov 23, 2020
In stressful times, this surprising lesson from neuroscience may help to lessen your anxieties.
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Nov 23, 2020
Anger at the president kicked many of us into action — or, better yet, activism. Now that he's on the way out, will those habits stick?
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Nov 23, 2020
The 86-year-old primatologist says it takes more than having opposable thumbs to save our planet.
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Nov 23, 2020
The explanation is much more paradoxical than just popularity.
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Nov 22, 2020
Donald Trump cares about nothing else except undermining our country's election results.
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Nov 22, 2020
Democracy is hard work. That work paid off.
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Nov 22, 2020
Why President Trump's stonewalling makes America less safe.
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Nov 22, 2020
While the leaders of Hungary and Poland resist.
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Nov 22, 2020
Why President Trump's stonewalling makes America less safe.
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Nov 22, 2020
This year, we have a chance to build a different kind of holiday.
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Nov 22, 2020
The Anti-Defamation League supports legislation that would "enhance the accuracy" of F.B.I. statistics. Also: Exit Trump.
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Nov 22, 2020
Readers offer cautions for those determined to celebrate in the usual way.
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Nov 21, 2020
Educate a girl. Send a young person to college. Restore a person's sight.
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Nov 21, 2020
It's both a moral failure and a public health one.
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Nov 21, 2020
He lost. We'll have to stop obsessing about him.
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Nov 21, 2020
Readers discuss coming to terms with body image, and doctors offer their perspectives.
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Nov 21, 2020
Unfeeling royals offer no respite from unfeeling Republicans.
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Nov 21, 2020
The need for joy and celebration cannot erase loss, even during the holidays.
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Nov 20, 2020
The Trump administration's abrupt decision to curtail the Federal Reserve's emergency lending programs is a gamble with no upside.
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Nov 20, 2020
His only success will be in ruining what should be the celebration of a successful election under highly challenging circumstances.
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Nov 20, 2020
It's past time to start seeing voters the way they see themselves.
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Nov 20, 2020
A reader applauds the Miami Marlins' hiring of Kim Ng as general manager. Also: Women's labor, paid and not; time to withdraw from Afghanistan; continued faith in our democracy.
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Nov 20, 2020
Nicholas Kristof wrote that President Trump was right to push for reopening schools. Three readers disagree.
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Nov 20, 2020
His Treasury secretary is shackling the nation's central bank and closing an emergency program for local governments.
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Nov 20, 2020
Some people oppose students loan forgiveness because they want others to suffer.
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Nov 20, 2020
And if you have kids, yours probably is, too.
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Nov 20, 2020
More than 500 readers sent in their predictions, but only one correctly forecast the exact Electoral College count.
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Nov 20, 2020
Understanding the structure of Global Cabal theories can shed light on their allure — and their inherent falsehood.
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Nov 20, 2020
After a half a century of failure, the U.S. and Mexico have an opportunity to find a new way forward on narcotics policy.
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Nov 20, 2020
Radical agitation helped bring Social Security and much of the New Deal into being.
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Nov 20, 2020
Should you travel to see family for the holidays? First investigate your potential lethality to the older people in your life.
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Nov 20, 2020
He terminated emergency-lending programs that will limit the new administration's options — and upset the Federal Reserve, too.
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Nov 20, 2020
The feud between Armenia and Azerbaijan has only been put on hold.
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Nov 20, 2020
People who want others to suffer will be mad. Who cares?
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Nov 20, 2020
In the first episode of this special pre-Inauguration series from "The Argument," Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and "Sway" host Kara Swisher join the debate.
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Nov 19, 2020
The president's actions are disgraceful and damaging to our democracy.
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Nov 19, 2020
With relatively low virus rates, the city faces a dilemma over a return to in-person instruction.
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Nov 19, 2020
The economic outlook is probably brighter than you think.
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Nov 19, 2020
The art of making connection even in a time of dislocation.
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Nov 19, 2020
It's disgraceful, as is the support of his accomplices.
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Nov 19, 2020
Without federal help, states have no good choices. But is keeping students home the worst one to make first?
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Nov 19, 2020
"I am so overwhelmed with pride to be American again," a Muslim woman writes. Also: Recovering memories; wrist fractures.
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Nov 19, 2020
Despite President Trump's message, the evidence shows no signs of fraud.
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Nov 19, 2020
One reader suggests turning the promising vaccine news into a victory lap for the president.
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Nov 19, 2020
In a new interview, he tells us how to survive the coming months, and confesses how stunned he is when people still insist the virus is "fake news."
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Nov 19, 2020
The claim itself is fraudulent.
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Nov 19, 2020
A succession of Trump policies reflected the administration's spite and heartlessness.
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Nov 19, 2020
Well, many reasons. But Harvard economist Raj Chetty says that's the age at which America's "Einsteins" are identified — and lost.
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Nov 19, 2020
This Thanksgiving, none of our grandchildren will be at our table. But the pandemic winter still leaves room for the imagination.
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Nov 18, 2020
A fresh round of federal aid can keep restaurants in business during the winter months while protecting public health.
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Nov 18, 2020
Children have suffered because many mayors and governors were too willing to close public schools.
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Nov 18, 2020
The Worst of Trump winners are in!
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Nov 18, 2020
Two readers say the president fired an election official, Christopher Krebs, for his honesty and integrity. Also: A post-mortem on polling.
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Nov 18, 2020
Some view his age as bringing wisdom and experience, while others worry about mental sharpness.
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Nov 18, 2020
State and city governments employ millions of essential workers. But the pandemic has pushed them to the brink. President-elect Biden needs to step in now.
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Nov 18, 2020
An intense battle between moderates and progressives has already spilled into public view.
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Nov 18, 2020
Divided government sometimes overperforms expectations.
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Nov 18, 2020
Welcome to Nova Scotia, the land that proves that beating back the virus is possible.
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Nov 18, 2020
Together, they employ about 23 million essential workers. But the pandemic has pushed them to the brink. President-elect Biden needs to step in now.
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Nov 18, 2020
An intense battle between moderates and progressives has already spilled into public view.
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Nov 18, 2020
Elections are complicated, but the money the government sent to more than 150 million Americans didn't hurt.
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Nov 18, 2020
It's less about foreign policy than the culture wars.
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Nov 18, 2020
There is a place for education in the fight against racism, but we shouldn't confuse it for the fight itself.
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Nov 18, 2020
Divided government sometimes overperforms expectations.
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Nov 17, 2020
With Biden's election, American democracy narrowly escaped disaster.
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Nov 17, 2020
The preliminary success of vaccines is a bright piece of news, but it's darkened by the threat of a terrible winter.
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Nov 17, 2020
We ask readers how the incoming president should confront the serious challenges that will face him.
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Nov 17, 2020
"The Constitution should be amended to remove the president from office no more than a month after losing the election," a reader writes.
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Nov 17, 2020
The president's magic social media wand will soon be powerless.
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Nov 17, 2020
Readers discuss the latest vaccine news as well as how the virus affects religious observances, weddings and the Secret Service.
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Nov 17, 2020
That's exactly the opposite of what we should be doing right now.
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Nov 17, 2020
Pakistan fails its women from the very top of government leadership to those who live in our homes.
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Nov 17, 2020
Liberals got "trounced" in Montana, and the party will spend the next few years in the wilderness.
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Nov 17, 2020
First, let's assume that they are not necessarily going to listen.
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Nov 17, 2020
In the past, Latinos have reliably voted Democratic in the Rio Grande Valley and Miami-Dade County. So what happened this year?
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Nov 17, 2020
The country fails its women from the very top of government leadership to those who live in our homes.
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Nov 17, 2020
The evidence shows only that the drug might be effective. That once wasn't enough for F.D.A. approval.
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Nov 17, 2020
Why do we keep asking children to bear the brunt of a lockdown?
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Nov 17, 2020
There are few if any pathways to changing either the Electoral College or the structure of the Senate in the near-term.
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Nov 16, 2020
In the Democratic civil war, both sides are partly right.
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Nov 16, 2020
If we can't face up to a pandemic, how can we avoid apocalypse?
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Nov 16, 2020
A constricted view of the world leaves progressives surprised by the world as it is.
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Nov 16, 2020
If this pandemic has taught us anything it's that we cannot escape the world we have shaped.
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Nov 16, 2020
"It's past time for the Republican leadership to step up, to stop this now," a reader writes. "It's a travesty and it demeans us, at home and abroad."
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Nov 16, 2020
Readers lament losing his voice as a columnist as he becomes The Times's Paris bureau chief. Also: How to ramp up contact tracing.
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Nov 16, 2020
We need to prepare now to protect the values and institutions that matter most.
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