“When the president starts rigging the system for his own benefit, no one is safe,” Michelle Cottle writes.

“The current president has injected his own brand of volatility and uncertainty back into U.S. foreign policy,” write Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo.

Recognizing Palestinian statehood “is empty symbolism at best, and at worst, a distraction from a lack of action to stop Israel’s war in Gaza and the starvation and forced displacement of roughly two million Palestinians living there,” Mustafa Barghouti writes.

“If the United States and others are serious about achieving lasting peace in Sudan, they must empower the country’s civilian representatives, not its warlords,” Suliman Baldo and Mai Hassan write.

The goal of sunlight reflection as a geoengineering strategy “would be to keep the total cooling from sulfur roughly constant for a period of time, reducing near-term climate risk while decarbonization efforts continue,” Zeke Hausfather and David Keith write.

“It’s impossible to separate Trump’s actions regarding TikTok from his administration’s threats against broadcast networks (including the threats that preceded Kimmel’s ouster) and his grotesque bullying of journalists,” our columnist David French writes.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty and confusion for public health in America, and it will mostly fall to individual doctors to help people understand which vaccines they need to get and when,” writes Daniela Lamas, a critical care physician.

The implications of the federal indictment against Eric Adams extend far beyond New York’s borders, Noah Shachtman writes. “They ripple through law enforcement offices and legislatures and courthouses across the nation, all the way up to the highest office in the land.”

“Neither Trump nor the MAGA right wants to discuss or deliberate; it wants to dominate,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “American politics is no longer a fight over policy; it is a fight over the character of the nation itself.”

“When your country strips you of rights and protections, it tells you that it no longer recognizes you. Other times, you realize that you no longer recognize your country,” our columnist M. Gessen writes. “The indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show signaled just such a shift in landscape.”

The larch tree, “much like the world it inhabits, would turn out to be much more vulnerable than we’d imagined,” Rebecca Smith writes. “Its story is the story of our relationship with our environment condensed into one lovely tree.”

“Policy reform involves trade-offs, and drug courts should not replace long-term comprehensive solutions, like supportive housing, mental health treatment and medications for addiction treatment,” Aaron D. Fox writes in a letter to The Times.

Throughout Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir “All the Way to the River,” she “keeps telling readers what they should think and how they should feel,” Jessica Grose writes. “I kept wishing that Gilbert would just tell us her story, without wrapping it in psychobabble.”

“Hollywood is no longer protected by its glamour and profit margins,” says Gabriel Sherman, writer of the film “The Apprentice,” which faced attacks from the Trump campaign last year that stymied its distribution. “In this weakened state, the entertainment industry simply can’t afford to fight.”

“Many stewards of cultural institutions are aware that they have a problem,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes. “But they are still dealing with internal ideological pressures — so to be able to reform, they need pressure from the outside to do the right thing.”

“What I find here in desperate villages in southwestern Uganda is that not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but that the death toll is accelerating,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.

“It is easy enough to imagine that this young man was radicalized,” Matthew Walther writes about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing. “But it is also possible to see his radicalization, if that is the right word, as something post-political, a simulacrum of motive in a fantasy world.”

“The title of Kamala Harris’s new memoir, ‘107 Days,’ is more revealing than it means to be,” our columnist Carlos Lozada writes. It is “not merely the duration of Harris’s campaign; it is also her excuse for losing the election.”

“I got to know Redford over friendly lunches and dinners and interviews for The Times and at Harvard’s Kennedy School,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “And that rarest of things happened: He was everything you hoped he would be.”

“The Trump administration is working as hard as it can to make the Republican Party the party against free speech, the party of cracking down on your political critics,” Michelle Cottle says on this episode of “The Opinions.”

After ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves, many called it censorship. As the journalist @mollyjongfast.bsky.social explains, it is censorship, but not the kind you might think. 🎥 Stephanie Shen, Emily Holzknecht and Marina King #nytopinion

“Today, we’re using A.I. chatbots for self-improvement, creative assistance, convenience and emotional support,” Joe Schmid writes in a letter to The Times. “Those benefits bait us into interacting and sharing details we might not share with another person.”

“Asia’s Generation Z treats digital organizing not as a supplement to politics but as politics itself,” Meena Kandasamy writes. “Having watched older movements fail, they’re building something from scratch: decentralized, fluid and devastatingly effective.”

“When you set fire to institutional knowledge and quickly hire a bunch of people, some of whom have a history of vaccine skepticism, you get an ad hoc mess — not the ‘gold standard’ science Mr. Kennedy and his team keep promising,” Jessica Grose writes.

“For all of MAGA’s reverence for masculine self-determination, one of its central tenets is the blamelessness of its adherents. Whatever is going wrong in this country, it is not their fault,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes.

“An independent bank is an unaccountable bank,” Christopher Caldwell writes. “Nervous though the question makes economists and financial insiders, are we sure, especially in this age of rampant inequality, that we want an independent Fed of the sort we have now?”

In this episode of “The Opinions,” David Wallace-Wells sits down with Paul Offit to discuss the C.D.C.’s recent vote on childhood vaccinations and what could lie ahead. “We should be thinking that we’re heading for more damaging changes,” Offit warns.

Is it possible that the purveyors of popular culture “will ignore the 50 percent or more of this country that want television, film and music that doesn’t feel like it was extruded directly from the president’s brain,” Michael Hirschorn writes.

“If the American ideal of freedom means anything, it is that Americans can engage in an extremely wide range of political speech, including the tasteless and the offensive,” the editorial board writes.

“While political violence in America today is robustly bipartisan, the response to it is not,” Peter Beinart writes.

“What I’ve tried to do is just to share what the facts are,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said on “The Ezra Klein Show” about the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s killing. “Too often we have a tendency to hide those things, and when we do that, we lose trust.”

“Robert Redford never gave up,” the director J.C. Chandor writes. Redford was “the greatest creative collaborator I will ever have. But in the end what made his life so truly extraordinary was that he was completely and utterly relentless.”

“Even before the Charlie Kirk assassination it was obvious that the dark passions now pervade the American psyche, and thus American politics,” our columnist David Brooks writes.

The Democrats’ priority “now must be to show that the threat of authoritarian rule is real and unfolding every day,” E. J. Dionne Jr. writes. “The economy will always be with us. Our free institutions might not.”

“This is not a story about America’s partisan divide,” Stephen L. Newman writes in a letter to The Times. “It is a story about the Trump administration’s frontal assault on the First Amendment and ABC’s craven capitulation in the face of the administration’s threats.”

“Trump is the first president in our history to invert Lincoln: He speaks with malice toward all and charity for none,” Bret Stephens tells Frank Bruni. “He makes Nixon look like Churchill.”

“I think the loss of 2024 shattered the Democratic Party’s confidence in its own politics. I just don’t think that the new leadership, the new ideas, have yet emerged,” Ezra Klein says in conversation with Ross Douthat on this episode of “Interesting Times.”

“Larry Ellison is already a major stakeholder in CBS and Paramount. Now CNN, HBO and a major share of TikTok are in his sights,” William Cohan writes. If all goes as anticipated, the tech billionaire is poised “to become one of the most powerful media and entertainment moguls America has ever seen.”

If we don’t get clarity and stability on President Trump’s tariff policy, “we will see the short-term costs but not the long-term, investment-driven benefits,” Oren Cass says in an online discussion on the economy.

“Gaza is far from the only looming crisis on Israel’s borders,” writes Philip Gordon. Israeli plans to take over — if not formally annex — the West Bank “would almost certainly lead to more violence and further turn Israel into a pariah state in the eyes of most of the world.”

“For two centuries, London and Washington were the seats of empire, the vanguard of the West, the proselytizers of liberal democracy,” Ben Rhodes writes. “Now the balance of global power is shifting to the East.”

“Environmentalists would do better to stop fretting and instead start learning about consumer needs, wants and behaviors, and treat their work more like a business,” Manuela S. Zoninsein writes in a letter to The Times. “Waiting for willpower is like waiting for Godot.”

For one front in an intensifying fight for the internet, “social media no longer looks like a tool of partisan persuasion but the political terrain itself,” David Wallace-Wells writes.

“It turns out that when kids aren’t allowed to doom scroll, take rude pictures of each other or rot their brains on TikTok during lunch hour or in study hall, they get bored enough to go to the library,” Jessica Grose writes.

Charlie Kirk “connected with many young Americans, particularly young men, who feel invisible in our politics,” John Della Volpe writes. “Democrats right now have a rare opportunity to reach these voters — if they can learn what Mr. Kirk understood about connection.”

“We cannot allow our dialogues to devolve into violence or absolutism,” writes Laura Ann Rosenbury, the president of Barnard College. “If we cannot keep that peace, we risk undermining the very purpose of higher education.”

“Yes, the administration is blowing up the appropriations process and illegally abusing spending authority, but a shutdown is simply a counterproductive response to Trump,” Matthew Glassman says in a Q&A.

In 2016, Sam Altman sought a way to bring A.I. to the world democratically. “No such world-governance board was ever established,” Jill Lepore writes, adding that there has been no A.I. constitutional convention. “It doesn’t have to be this way.”

“Trump told voters that they could indulge their resentments and still walk away richer and more prosperous. But they can’t,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

King Charles III “may be the last man standing who can exude global gravitas in the dumpster fire of our digitally dominated world,” Tina Brown writes.