Excess skin has long been an issue among patients who’ve had bariatric surgery, which makes the stomach smaller, or otherwise lost weight rapidly. But over the past few years, doctors say they’re seeing loose skin much more often as new obesity drugs —like Ozempic, Zepbound and Wegovy—become more powerful and commonplace.

It is not uncommon for unexploded bombs from 20th-century conflicts to be uncovered in Austria, though accidents like this one appear to be rare. To dispense with the obvious: It’s hard to imagine a president as unlike Donald Trump as Jimmy Carter, with his radically different approach to governing and to morality. But it’s also hard to miss the structural similarities between our time and the era that brought down Carter and shifted political and economic thinking globally to the right, as reflected in the rise of Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in Britain. It’s not just that Iran has reoccupied center stage or that fear of stagflation looms again, even if this economy is different in important ways from the old one. In the late 1970s, Americans sensed that their country was growing weaker in the world, in the wake of the Vietnam debacle and as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian hostage crisis set in. Today, they see it as enfeebled because of Mr. Trump’s assault on longstanding alliances, his devastation of America’s moral standing with his deranged threat to wipe out Iran’s “whole civilization” and his pursuit of a war without a coherent strategy or clear objectives.

During a call from her house in Los Angeles, Kardashian discussed the beauty of motherhood, her workout routine and what snacks she likes to keep on hand. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Instead of waiting until morning, I decided to start immediately. I planned to finish all my work that day, get home and sit for 20 minutes before bed. After all, Bryant also did it at night before games, and I was eager to begin. But my brain was already spent. Instead of observing my thoughts with curiosity, I felt a little overwhelmed by them.