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In this section, we will try to outline some of the current research trends within the Minimalist Program. A range of issues are just as important today as they have always been: Poverty of the Stimulus (see Crain, Giblin, and Thornton, Chapter 29 of this volume), structure dependent rules, UG, constraints on dependencies (see Müller, Chapter 12 of this volume). Nevertheless, there are certain areas to which the searchlight is currently oriented. Some of these are discussed in other chapters, notably language evolution (Reboul, Chapter 30 of this volume) and an increased emphasis on comparative grammar (Sheehan, Chapter 11 of this volume). For that reason, we won't discuss these here. Rather, we will focus on three other topics: Features, the nature of phrase‐structure representations (viz. labels and labeling), and extensions of the formal framework to new areas.