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Decluttering is a challenge for many Americans, but neuroscience indicates we can make the process easier on ourselves and our loved ones.

As undergraduates, we led a movement to abolish fraternities and sororities. Our story shows how challenging it is.

How will we be able to tell whether A.I. is conscious? On “The Opinions,” the columnist Carlos Lozada draws on the 1959 novel “A Canticle for Leibowitz” to explore the line between intelligence and consciousness — and whether we’re asking the right questions about A.I.

The actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt believes storytelling is humanity’s defining technology. But will that continue to be true as A.I. gets more and more powerful? In this video, he takes Times Opinion inside the U.N. General Assembly to explore what’s at stake with the technology and tackle five pressing questions about how A.I. could change what it means to be human.

Children are still allowed to marry here in the United States because of zealots on the left and right alike.

All generations think they drew the short straw; they’ve really shared the same challenges, just in different eras.