2025 is the year that millennials officially got old, Anna Silman writes. "This reality has been creeping up for a while now, but it’s become impossible to deny it any longer," she says.

“Democrats spent so much time taking it for granted that there was no need really to make an affirmative case for immigration on a moral and ethical basis but also just as a source of renewing American vitality,” Michelle Goldberg tells David Leonhardt on “The Opinions.”

“The world’s democracies cannot depend on the most powerful authoritarian state — and an increasingly aggressive one — for critical minerals,” writes the editorial board.

“Hamnet,” a new film about William Shakespeare, offers up a vision of the Bard as “Marlon Brando in Elizabethan drag,” Drew Lichtenberg writes. While this character may appeal to a new generation, it “played to me like mumblecore Shakespeare.”

“For more than a century, The New York Times has partnered with Children’s Aid to make programs serving New Yorkers in need, like the Frederick Douglass Community Center, possible,” writes the editorial board.

"Shopping has become a drag," writes Robin Givhan. "A bore. An obligation. A thing you do alone on your phone, not out in the world, which is where you want to be in your new Christmas coat, making a grand entrance … somewhere."

“A fundamentalist can see every person who’s wrong as a kind of Patient Zero in a potential pandemic of paganism,” our columnist David French writes.

The D.S.A. is still small. But as economic inequality keeps burning, Democratic Socialists are attracting interest and getting elected to office. Now activists are dealing with the opportunities and tensions of the moment, writes Mara Gay.

“A year ago, we kept hearing that Trump was cool. Is anyone saying that now?” the columnist Ezra Klein writes.

“If the policymakers in Washington can justify putting a cap on earnings that are subject to the FICA tax, why can’t they put a cap on the amount of money a working-class family has to pay for health care each year?” writes David Loveland in a letter to The Times.

Majorie Taylor Greene “has recognized, perhaps rightly, that there is no place for women like her in Trump’s halls of power,” our columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom writes. “So she’s building herself an escape route.”

You can love the holidays again if you stop hosting, Elizabeth Austin argues. “People are surprisingly capable when they’re given no other choice.”

“Finding the proper balance between helpfulness and codependency, between friendliness and flattery, is one of the biggest problems A.I. faces,” Stephen Witt writes.

“The fact that we’re testing a strategy of Latin American regime change is strong evidence that what never materialized in the 2016 campaign — the Marco Rubio moment — might have finally arrived,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes.

“Having elevated her in large part for her willingness to say outrageous things about her opponents, people on the right are now surprised by her willingness to say outrageous things about them,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes about Candace Owens.

“Many of us read great novels that help guide our thoughts about how we want to live,” the New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman tells Nicholas Kristof. “The Christmas story is like that, with power to shape how we think and behave toward others.”

“For all the horrors of Trump 2.0, it offers an opportunity for progressives to start thinking boldly again about how to conceive of and use public authority for the American people,” Marc Dunkelman writes.

“That the Kennedy Center board would pair a man of President Kennedy’s heroic character and stature with another man who is the epitome of vainglory and greed only adds injury to insult,” writes Christopher K. McNally in a letter to The Times.

Only half of low-income students attend college compared with 90 percent of their wealthy peers. OneGoal aims to close that gap, and its model works, writes the editorial board.

Trump’s move to reschedule marijuana has “reignited familiar arguments about whether cannabis is harmless or dangerous, medicine or vice, success or failure,” Aaron E. Carroll writes. “That debate misses the point.”

"On the tax front, it’s time for rich people like me to pay more," Mitt Romney writes.

“Over the years, an array of impressive women have tried and failed to grab the brass ring,” Michelle Cottle writes, “as countless voters offered up the bromide: I would be happy to support a woman for president, just not that woman.”

Europe must “persuade younger Europeans that their heritage, culture and way of life — a fundamentally Christian civilization leavened and improved but not erased by the values of the Enlightenment — are worth defending,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes.

“A ruin preserves the memory of what has been, at the cost of making it impossible not to recognize the permanence of the loss,” writes Michael Drout.

“There’s constant talk these days about how higher education needs reimagining in light of artificial intelligence, but we’re mistaken if we think A.I. is solely responsible for our broken system,” Colleen Kinder writes.

“To avoid the fate of Lagash and Angkor, Tehran and other modern cities must do something radical by contemporary political standards: accept that living within ecological boundaries is not optional,” Peter Frankopan writes.

“As a public figure, Mr. Trudeau has always been a master of celebrity, so it’s fitting he’s now openly embracing its benefits,” argues Stephen March, writing about Canada’s former prime minister pairing up with the pop star Katy Perry.

“To reckon with the horror of the ongoing boat strikes, we also must acknowledge that executive impunity works for the bad guys, too,” writes Brett Max Kaufman in a letter to The Times.

“Besides Trump, of course, giving himself A-plus-plus-plus on the economy, he doesn’t inspire people to feel that things are great, that things are good. He tends to have very angry, negative rhetoric that, I think, actually hurts,” E.J. Dionne Jr. says in this episode of “The Conversation.”

What does it mean to feel healthy? What makes being healthy harder or easier in America? Times Opinion spoke to 14 Americans from all walks of life who are using or have recently used GLP-1 medications.

As politicians label judges “rogue” and “corrupt,” they face a rise in swatting and doxxing. Judge Esther Salas warns that an independent judiciary is at risk if judges are forced to weigh their safety against the law.

“The mind-set shift needed here is to acknowledge that while climate change is real and harmful, the utility of fossil fuels is not something the oil and gas industry tricked the public into,” Matthew Yglesias writes.

Joyce Arthur’s life was changed by this organization that pays for African girls to attend school, writes the editorial board. Here's how to support it:

“Producers hate Netflix because they can’t get back-end profits. A-list actors and their agents hate that they’ve put a lid on salaries and residuals. Studios hate Netflix when it poached their talent and jacked up executive salaries,” Sharon Waxman writes.

“In the face of great evil, great good arose,” our columnist David French writes. “Ahmed el Ahmed, Boris and Sofia Gurman and Jessica Rozen — remember their names. Remember their deeds.”

“Let’s condemn the president’s dehumanizing language about the Reiners. But I hope we can also go a step further and work to reduce such tragedies,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.

“It is obvious that the United States should not sell China advanced technology that China could use to target American troops and intelligence officers,” write the national security experts Ben Buchanan and Matt Pottinger.

“The hospital can be overwhelming to patients. I believed that it was my responsibility to be my patients’ advocate. When physicians browbeat patients to change their minds, they become adversaries,” writes Michael Streicher in a letter to The Times.

“No television show is going to change thousands of years of human beings killing each other over religion or territory or whatever,” Rob Reiner told Todd Purdum last month. “But that doesn’t mean we can’t keep talking about it.”

“I no longer believe that debating Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again stalwarts is going to build trust back up,” Jessica Grose writes.

“Social isolation among older adults is associated with elevated rates of depression, dementia, heart disease and mortality,” the editorial board writes. “Close relationships and a sense of purpose can help them thrive.”

“There is a presidency at work in Washington, but it is not clear that there is a president at work in the Oval Office,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

The Trump administration’s celebration of death wounds the nation’s soul, Phil Klay writes. “We’re in the Colosseum, one brought to us digitally so that we need not leave our homes to hear the cheers of the crowd, to watch the killing done for our entertainment.”

As our columnist M. Gessen resisted seeing the film “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” what they didn’t realize “was that these deaths were not its subject. The subject of the movie is the moral injury inflicted on people who became implicated in these deaths, even as they tried to prevent them.”

“There are two competing visions now emerging on the American right, and they are incompatible,” Vivek Ramaswamy writes.

The election of José Antonio Kast, an admirer of the dictator General Augusto Pinochet, as Chile’s president signals “the belief that democracy itself is unable to deliver when it comes to the everyday problems of crime, cost of living and rampant immigration,” Ariel Dorfman writes.

In a certain reading of why young conservatives are so radicalized, it’s not about “some kind of cultural recoil from woke conformity,” Ross Douthat writes. “It’s about jobs, professional opportunity and feeling like a door has been slammed in your face or closed before you ever reach it.”

The 15 people killed in Australia’s Bondi Beach shooting “were all let down by a government whose role it is to do the things individuals cannot do for themselves: chiefly, keep our nation safe from terrorism and mass shootings,” writes Alex Ryvchin, whose friend and rabbi was one of the victims.

“Good people and good nations do not stomp on the grief of others. Politics is meant to end at the graveside,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes about President Trump’s comments on Rob Reiner.

“The Reiners’ murder was not politically motivated, but that didn’t matter to this American president,” Carolyn Faggioni writes in a letter to The Times. “Everything must be about him. This is who he is.”