Sunday Opinion

Now would be a good time for Congress to pass a federal spending bill to make a permanent pay increase a reality.

By Robert Langellier

Whatever the Trump-Harris election season is delivering, it isn’t a grand ideological debate.

By Ross Douthat

It’s time for organizers to invent a new model.

By Zeynep Tufekci

At the U.N., will President Biden and other world leaders stand up for the victims or for the countries fueling war, rape and hunger?

By Nicholas Kristof

Freedom is not just an absence of evil. Freedom is the presence of good.

By Timothy Snyder

It’s more toxic but less relevant than ever.

By Michelle Goldberg

“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at.”

By Jamelle Bouie

I am deeply troubled by the growing distrust of science in our society, just at the time when its insights are most needed.

By Francis Collins

How can different religions be “like different languages in order to arrive at God”?

By David French

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

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

Experts are rushing to redefine obesity amid soaring demand for new weight loss drugs.

By Julia Belluz

When ‘states’ rights’ means subverting the will of the people.

By Jessica Grose

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

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

The case for “mindful underparenting.”

By Darby Saxbe

2024 and the dilemmas of the elite-populist deadlock.

By Ross Douthat

We often focus on doomsday scenarios, but we shouldn’t let them distract us from other consequences of climate change like impaired learning, crime, suicide — even slipping off ladders.

By Nicholas Kristof

Readers discuss Nicholas Kristof’s column urging Democrats not to demean Trump supporters.

There is something particularly insidious about his claim that Haitian immigrants are eating household pets.

By Lydia Polgreen