Sunday Opinion

There is widespread agreement, even in museums, that questionable pieces in collections should be returned. But returned to whom?

A second Biden term would be unusually dangerous for the country in a very significant way.

With Israel possibly winding down its war in Gaza, we should be paying more attention to the crisis building in the more populous West Bank.

Do the Democrats really want to stop Trump? What are they prepared to do?

Readers discuss a column by Nicholas Kristof.

The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.

None of the options ensure victory against Trump — and some of them could badly split the party.

Everyone in our system, including judges and members of Congress, will be nudged to do their proper constitutional work.

The vice president is the obvious path out of the mess Joe Biden has created.

Schools ground migrant children and their families when everything else — the language, the city, the culture, the people — is brand-new.

Donald Trump is too grave a threat to America. Democrats need a nominee who can unite the country and articulate a compelling vision for it.

Our kids’ lingo is not only better than any we used; it’s a useful window into the way they think.

Universities that cataloged election lies and disinformation are being targeted with the same tactics they sought to uncover.

The breathless catastrophizing of Trump and his allies is not an expression of ignorance as much as it is a statement of intent.

The participants talk about their frustrations with the two-party system, the appeal of third-party candidates and the issues most important to them in voting for president.

Her political future will be decided in Tuesday’s Republican congressional primary. Is there a limit to MAGA antics?

It is looking more and more like a project to universalize the un-universalizable.

The candidates have no shortage of flaws.

By averting his eyes as his red lines are ignored, Biden is wasting his leverage over Israel.

He’s just as intense, but a bit more mellow. Or is he?

Olympic hopefuls are a group of exceptional people held together by athletic tape and hope, who leap without sight of where they will land.

Readers discuss a column by David Brooks about “The Sins of the Educated Class.”

The former president is no more prepared for a second term than he was for a first. He may even be less prepared.

Democrats should rally around a bill to overhaul the 1873 anti-vice law.

Can populist leaders actually fix the world’s unsolvable problems?

We had a chance to treat sex categories in sports with curiosity and compassion instead of condemnation. We still can.

The U.S. bombings that ended World War II didn’t mark the close of atomic warfare. They were just the beginning.

Here’s who needs to worry right now.

Infected with ideological purity, the West Coast is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes.

The experience of living with my father’s dementia ranged from tragic to tragicomic to vaudevillian, often within the span of a few minutes.

The future is uncertain. But it feels less scary surrounded by feathered friends.

After a profound national rupture, forgiveness may be impossible. But the long-overlooked act of oblivion could offer a solution.

“When you live in the past, the people around you hate you, don’t understand and don’t accept you,” Valentyna Odnoviu wrote.

Hollywood shouldn’t pre-emptively capitulate to the MAGA movement.

In a long conversation, the first-term senator from Ohio talks about Trump, populism, the 2020 election, Ukraine and the Republican V.P. slot.

In calling snap elections, Emmanuel Macron has taken a dangerous gamble.

Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.

Never has the country looked less like a leader and more like the head of a faction.

Progressives need to stop thinking of family as a conservative hobbyhorse.

The Unabomber personified how we use the West as a mirror for the dark, untamed aspects of our national character.

No matter what seemingly hopeless mess you have made, everything can still work out.

His executive order limiting asylum seekers may be political, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

Officials should have told us what they knew, or at least leveled with us about what they didn’t know.

As the country becomes increasingly divided, Brownsville comes together.

Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul about college protesters’ job prospects and future careers.

In a democracy, how far is too far?

This is what happens when you say it’s the legal system that’s indefensible.

A vitally important public policy was derailed over political concerns.

The voters have spoken: They want to keep their democracy.

Trump sort of photosynthesizes any and all attention to grow bigger and stronger. What’s Biden to do?

Modern boyhood is an apprenticeship in loneliness.

It’s corrupt, rotten and hurting America.

The group discusses the trial, the verdict and its possible influence on the 2024 election.

The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.

The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.

This is how judges can remain pillars for the rule of law in America.

A photographer captured the crowds outside the courthouse during Trump’s trial — and as the historic verdict came down.

The country’s story of liberation has been both a symbol of hope and a burden. Now it’s time for reality.

But the real verdict comes on 11/5.

It’s not a black-and-white morality tale.

Readers discuss reports of a decline in deaths in the U.S. but a rise in Baltimore.

Times Opinion writers reflect on an extraordinary development in American political history.

Betting puts pressure on pro athletes. The cracks are starting to show.

The stakes for our democracy should be obvious.

He has spent much of his lifetime and all of his political career preparing for a chapter like this.

The defense failed to focus on the most important things.

The former president’s conviction in a New York criminal trial revealed, yet again, why he is unfit for office.

Can they really decide for themselves whether they can be impartial?

These tiny biological powerhouses can help us cure deadly diseases, and tell us how life itself started.

Let’s spare universities from having to decide which world events deserve official statements.