The New York Times

Readers discuss comments by Stephen Miller about U.S. power and by the Danish prime minister about NATO. Also: Deaths on subway tracks.

The Trump administration’s operation to capture Nicolás Maduro was as much a spectacle as it was a military operation. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein and the journalist Jonathan Blitzer discuss what President Trump’s show of force signals.

A Republican House member argues that the Maduro raid was good — but the operation’s success still hangs in the balance.

Facing death is a core part of making meaning of one’s life. To struggle through this universal contemplation without a community can be brutal.

“The United States has a problem with elite impunity,” says the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, as he looks back on the five years since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.