EDITORIAL: Long may Alcoholics Anonymous continue to help alcoholics help themselves.

EDITORIAL: The football World Cup works its magic on New Zealand again.

EDITORIAL: Trump used children to try to get his wall.

Like a royal baby, a Prime Minister giving birth gives us shared pleasure.

The Government is facing excessive public sector wage claims.

EDITORIAL: The red card that ruined the second test shows that a rule change is needed.

EDITORIAL: Auckland Transport's cycle surveys ask the wrong questions.

EDITORIAL: It is hard to think of something more distracting than texting.

EDITORIAL: The best way is probably not to rely on it to control yourself.

Trump's halt to military exercises could make the summit a success.

EDITORIAL: So long as the information is in public interest, it deserves the protection.

EDITORIAL: Labour needs to keep its nerve on criminal law reform.

EDITORIAL: They have a rare chance to settle this 65-year stalemate once and for all.

COMMENT: Graphic warnings on soft drinks might do some good.

EDITORIAL: The retirement of Mike Hesson is a reminder of how remarkably good he has been.

EDITORIAL: A 39-level tower will stand where the Downtown shopping centre used to be.

Fair Pay Working Group has to resolve some serious economic pitfalls.

EDITORIAL: Patients have to trust they will be safe with construction work around them.

EDITORIAL: Hate speech is better answered by free speech.

EDITORIAL: World hasn't been watching as we like to suppose when public money is provided.

EDITORIAL: Healthy homes legislation should have been in force for the start of winter.

It's valuable for a nation to share a life experience such as the birth of a baby.

Auckland's new "targeted" rates should be tied more closely to specific projects.

EDITORIAL: PM's chief science advisor has exploded myths around meth exposure in homes.

EDITORIAL: The Cabinet faced an invidious decision on the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.

EDITORIAL: Until gaps are addressed elsewhere, their effects will be felt in the classroom

EDITORIAL: One teenager Denver Woolley owes his life to the helicopter heroes.

EDITORIAL: Too many families have been torn apart by a failure to make safety a priority.

EDITORIAL: Both John Logan Campbell and Apihai Te Kawau helped create the foundations.

The EU's announcement of free trade talks with NZ signals a rejection of US protectionism.