New York Times Opinion

In the 1950s, McCarthyism created a climate of fear and suspicion in American politics. The Times Opinion columnist Carlos Lozada and the historian Nicole Hemmer argue that, over 70 years later, McCarthyism is still a part of our politics today. Will Trumpism’s influence last as long?

The lawyer Roy Cohn showed Donald Trump that you can lie, take advantage of others and be loud — and that will only help you. On “The Opinions,” the historian Nicole Hemmer asks: Who else will take up the Cohn model?

The country has built a system in which Americans can have confidence. President Trump is trying to wreck it.

Let’s learn from Nordic Countries: If America actually supported workers, we’d have a better shot at embracing technological change.

Even without government regulation, private companies can act on their own to address A.I. safety concerns.

A new book reveals how the infamous lawyer helped shape Donald Trump.

We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s.

Redistributing money from single working parents to married ones is not a pro-family policy.

Readers discuss the contrasts between the United States and Canada, and the renaming of Lake Ontario as Lake America. Also: Conquering “digital territory.”

Israel and the United States each hold elections one week apart in the fall. The fate of their democracies lies in the balance.

The world has lost track of the truth about Al Qaeda.

I miss her already.

A new book reveals how the lawyer’s legacy lives on decades after his death.

My father died on 9/11, and a nation united behind my family, as well as others. We desperately need that sense of togetherness today.

Anton Jäger argues on “The Ezra Klein Show” that we’re in a distinct era of “hyperpolitics” — where politics feels volatile, ubiquitous and intense, but is not securely attached to institutions and structures.

The political historian Anton Jäger on his theory of “hyperpolitics.”

On second thought, I’m not that hungry.

Is Trump an aberration or a “tuning fork for the future” of politics? The political historian Anton Jäger discusses on “The Ezra Klein Show.”

This summer, I discovered how experiencing joy as a group makes life so much better.

25 years after 9/11, life has proved stronger than death.