Guest Essays

There are two things giving the vice president a lift in the short term: unity and energy.

By Kristen Soltis Anderson

His proposals are important but have little chance of being enacted.

By Erwin Chemerinsky

Americans’ health is at risk.

By Erin Brockovich

The days of growing thirsty crops in a dry land may be coming to an end.

By Aaron Timms

A declaration of victory by the Maduro regime is another case of how democracy is backsliding in Latin America.

By Michael Albertus

When art changes opinions or opens hearts, it changes the world as profoundly as any legislation does.

By Margaret Renkl

Its refusal to lower interest rates is a mistake.

By Jen Harris

Fishing the ocean’s twilight zone could unleash climate chaos.

By Porter Fox

Voters deserve transparency.

By Robert Klitzman

Until we narrow the scope of what police officers can do, we’ll continue to see officers bring violence into situations that don’t require it.

By Tahir Duckett

She will need a message that reconnects the Democratic Party with the working-class voters it has alienated in recent decades.

By Michael J. Sandel

Politics has become so much like entertainment that the first thing we do to make sense of the moment is to test it against a sitcom.

By Armando Iannucci

We don’t let preadolescent kids work. Why do we let them appear in the most high-pressure athletic contests on a global stage?

By Linda Flanagan

The former president is praising the era when tariffs fueled the federal budget — and also caused social dislocation and financial instability.

By Steven R. Weisman

The streaming era turned on a fire hose of content that’s drowning viewers. We need TV that feels created by humans, not served up by an algorithm.

By Priyanka Mattoo

Organizers must reduce the event’s carbon footprint.

By Madeleine Orr

It is clear Venezuelans have chosen to oust President Maduro. Whether that will happen remains in question.

By María Corina Machado

She may yet add to her impressive Olympic legacy in Paris. But by changing the way we talk about mental health, Simone Biles has scored a different victory.

By Julie Kliegman

We have the tools we need to stop the disease in 2024. Let’s use them.

By Ina Park

China could seize control of a strategically vital waterway without firing a shot.

By Oriana Skylar Mastro

On Sunday the president selflessly let go of the reins but not before ensuring we were in good hands.

By Jeffrey Katzenberg

In cobbling together a core constituency of voters who are both culturally conservative and financially hard-pressed, they are changing politics.

By Thomas B. Edsall

With Netanyahu’s visit, Congress can’t ignore its role in Gaza’s carnage.

By Megan K. Stack

When political violence is on the rise, accountability at all levels of society is the only way to stop it.

By Alex Kingsbury

Coconut trees and Republican missteps.

By Frank Bruni, Mallory McMorrow and Simon Rosenberg

Don’t Take Trump’s Word for It. Check the Data.

By Steven Rattner and Aileen Clarke

I’ve been called a witch, a “nasty woman” and much worse. Harris will face unique additional challenges. But we shouldn’t be afraid.

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

Conspiracy theorists have been able to fill the information void with their own versions of the truth.

By Gerald Posner and Mark S. Zaid

Sorting out whether she’s an upgrade for Democrats.

By Kristen Soltis Anderson

She faces a moment different from when she ran for president in the 2020 cycle.

By Nicole Allan

Trump’s consolidated control of the G.O.P. has had the surprising effect of making its policies more, not less, unsettled.

By Julius Krein

What to know about a new U.S. policy.

By Tom Inglesby, Anita Cicero and Marc Lipsitch

The ethical thing to do is to bring mining back and hold it to the highest sustainability standards.

By Stephen Lezak

Turkey’s four million stray dogs are inseparable from the idea of the country itself. But maybe not for much longer.

By Kaya Genc

Joe Biden must have accepted that he is yesterday and chose to let the party move on.

By David Paul Kuhn

History will remember what this former lion of the Senate accomplished from the West Wing to improve Black communities across the nation.

By Al Sharpton

The shameless presence of white supremacists here tells us something about the similarity between the politics of the past and our political moment.

By Margaret Renkl

He never surrendered the hope that a frail and fallible world could be made stronger if people could summon enough goodness and courage to build, rather than tear down.

By Jon Meacham

We need to rethink how we assess and evaluate physical and mental fitness for the presidency.

By Jeffrey Kuhlman

What would President Bartlet do?

By Aaron Sorkin