Opinion

China is worried A.I. companions could be a drag on productivity. On “Interesting Times,” Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, tells the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat that the government thinks youth “should be engineering the future and building out the start-ups and the future Chinese versions of SpaceX.”

By Interesting Times

What if you weren’t worried about A.I. taking your job? That seems to be closer to the reality in China, where keeping pace with the new technology is a much bigger focus than economic disruption. On “Interesting Times,” Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, explains how the countries differ in their anxieties over artificial intelligence.

By Interesting Times

We have no F.D.A. director, no permanent C.D.C. director and no surgeon general.

By Katelyn Jetelina

The language is benefiting from a respect for diversity.

By John McWhorter

Readers largely disagree with a guest essay that argued that Democrats should not focus on it. Also: Violence against Latinos; school closings.

Higher fuel prices are a burden on low-income families.

By Jeff D. Colgan

The secrets of one of the architects of the religious right are being revealed. One of the secrets is that they weren’t really secrets.

By David French

When MAHA turns into HAHA.

By Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens

The difference in perspectives between superpowers is shaping the race for A.I. dominance.

By Ross Douthat and Sophia Alvarez Boyd

An individual with principles and quirks and an aversion to being told what to do.

By Katherine Mangu-Ward

A model for all who follow.

By Jason Furman

M. Gessen and Rachel Louise Snyder on the parallels between authoritarianism and domestic violence.

By M. Gessen, Rachel Louise Snyder and Jillian Weinberger

The difference in perspectives between superpowers is shaping the race for A.I. dominance.

By Interesting Times

The Trump administration is going after harm reduction.

By Maia Szalavitz

The billionaire investor who predicted the 2008 financial crash is bearish on America’s future standing in the world. On “Interesting Times,” Ray Dalio tells the columnist Ross Douthat why.

By Interesting Times

What have we learned from Covid?

By David Wallace-Wells

In Beijing this week, Mr. Trump should not hand China more victories.

By The Editorial Board

Readers say David French’s critique of the likely Democratic candidate for the Senate in Maine was too harsh.

More children will die because the Trump administration is cutting pediatric cancer research.

By Zain Habboo

Reality stars and influencers in government are here to stay.

By Jessica Grose

“You name it, we’re investing in it” does not inspire confidence.

By Noah Shachtman

The ruling in Louisiana v. Callais might drive America’s politics to an even more precarious place of partisan tension and ideological Balkanization.

By Jamelle Bouie

The Purdue Pharma case is closed, but the opioid problem remains.

By Benjamin Siegel

Measuring America’s democratic erosion.

By The Editorial Board

While Trump chases quick wins and flashy optics, Xi plays a generational game for global dominance.

By Julian Gewirtz

Britain’s post-liberal disorder.

By Ross Douthat

NATO should overcome its distaste for President Trump and sends its navies to help open up the Strait of Hormuz.

By Thomas L. Friedman

History shows there is no more productive national asset than freedom.

By Bret Stephens

Democrats running for California governor join the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to debate whether manufacturing technology or federal policy can solve the crisis of the state’s skyrocketing home construction costs.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

Readers offer their theories in response to a guest essay.

Trump is fighting the world’s stupidest culture war.

By Thomas B. Edsall

We should take hantavirus more seriously.

By Zeynep Tufekci

Why searching for the best is the wrong goal.

By David Epstein

The Fed’s next leader needs a complete picture of what A.I. will do to the economy.

By Jared Bernstein and Janet L. Yellen

There is a shared sense of precarity that lies beneath the envy and distrust.

By Yi-Ling Liu

Pedro Sánchez has established an alternative governing philosophy to Trumpism.

By Omar G. Encarnación

How will the next governor make housing more affordable? The top five Democratic candidates in California discuss this issue at a forum moderated by Ezra Klein.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

San Jose’s mayor, Matt Mahan, tells the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein why California’s reliance on expensive, slow-moving affordable-housing projects has eroded public trust, and argues for a “radically pragmatic” shift toward interim housing and stricter encampment enforcement.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

How would Katie Porter, a Democratic candidate for California governor, navigate the billionaire-backed California Forever project if elected? She discusses her approach with the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein during a live forum.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

Why has modular housing failed to revolutionize the industry, despite decades of hype? Tom Steyer tells the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein why modular housing start-ups have failed and how California can use its scale to finally make home construction more affordable.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

Maureen Galindo’s rise demonstrates how even justified rage and despair can curdle into hateful paranoia.

By Michelle Goldberg

The downstream effects of the Iran war are only beginning. On “The Opinions,” David Wallace-Wells explains how disruptions tied to fertilizer, condoms and other global goods could contribute to famine, disease and rising costs worldwide.

Beijing has hacked America, but we have all the tools we need to fight back.

By Timothy D. Haugh

Readers discuss the effects of cellphone bans in school and screen time limits. Also: Close “Alligator Alcatraz”; President Trump’s vulgar language.

Sexual violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians is widespread, according to new reports and harrowing first-hand accounts. The Opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof details a pattern of systemic abuse and “unrestrained power” within Israeli detention centers that challenges the moral silence of the international community.

By Nicholas Kristof

The demise of pine forests could make snow virtually disappear from the Southwest in 50 or so years.

By Gary Ferguson

The A.I. revolution involves a huge transfer of labor — not from worker to machine but from worker to you.

By Carl Benedikt Frey

Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators.

By Nicholas Kristof

Neither genetics nor brain scans can distinguish a person with depression, A.D.H.D. or autism from one without.

By Awais Aftab

A doctor and senator who voted to confirm Robert Kennedy still was snubbed by Trump in the Republican primary in Louisiana.

By Gary Sernovitz

If Americans knew what Cuba was enduring, they would demand an end to the U.S. blockade.

By Pramila Jayapal and Jonathan L. Jackson

Readers discuss artificial intelligence and writing in the classroom. Also: President Trump’s latest assault on science; election workers.

The exact wrong answer to a Republican Party that’s flirting with fascism is a man who chose to put vile Nazi imagery on his own body.

By David French

When we’re talking about which allies to support or which communities we defend, our principles shouldn’t shift.

By Josh Gottheimer

Hawaii might have the answer.

By Rachel Louise Snyder

For some patients, cancer is becoming like a chronic illness.

By Daniela J. Lamas

Vintage American clothing still commands high prices, but the physical manifestations of U.S. empire have decayed. No one knows what’s next.

By Henrik Sunde Wilberg

“Why are some things special?” This Mother’s Day, we revisit a 3-year-old’s endless curiosity and a mother’s joy of seeing the world through her child’s eyes.

I’m realizing that a sort of gooey sitcom resolution is not in the cards for my mother and me.

By Molly Jong-Fast

We are entering a more perilous era where China no longer sees U.S. strength as something to fear.

By Yanzhong Huang