Opinion

The governor of Michigan on why her promises to fix roads and Roe resonate with voters.

By Ezra Klein

He deserves credit for being the first president to join the movement.

By David Firestone

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

The rapid transformation of the Democratic Party’s attitude toward Israel is forcing a reckoning.

By Jamelle Bouie

The case that a former police detective regrets.

By Brian Wharton, Kirk Semple and Adam Westbrook

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

“I regret deeply that we followed the easiest path.”

By Brian Wharton, Kirk Semple and Adam Westbrook

He’s hiding who he really represents behind a can of Mountain Dew.

By Paul Krugman

Some financiers are seeing partisan corruption where it doesn’t exist.

By Peter Coy

On Trump’s comments to Christian voters and claims about his demeaning those with disabilities. Also: Retirement; coming out; youths in need; driver data.

All three men can help her, in different ways.

By Jonathan Alter

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

By Michael Albertus

The future of the food supply is uncertain. Let’s look at solutions.

By Eliza Barclay

It’s a whole new era in presidential politics. Right?

By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens

Republicans once proudly proclaimed their reverence for the Constitution; in Milwaukee, they crowned as their leader a man who attempted to subvert it.

By Peter Wehner

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

By Margaret Renkl

Jane Coaston interviews anti-abortion activist Kristan Hawkins about Donald Trump, the changes in the G.O.P. and how activists are pushing from the outside.

By Jane Coaston

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

Responses to a Science Times article. Also: The joys of a foreign language; Donald Trump’s platform changes; a Long Island militia; understanding sloths.

The Democratic Party must join the battle for the hearts and minds of young men.

By David French

Voters deserve transparency.

By Robert Klitzman

What do conservatives mean when they say that America is not “an idea”? The answer is key to understanding the 2024 election.

By Farah Stockman

Our food supply is more fragile than you think.

By David Wallace-Wells

Harris’s success and setbacks could make her the ideal candidate against a man who admits no mistakes, has no humility and is utterly unrelatable.

By Lydia Polgreen

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

With the surge of support for her candidacy, you can sense an effort to overcome divisions on the left and to recover the unity of 2020.

By Ross Douthat

Women should bat JD around like a ball of twine.

By Maureen Dowd

Managing artificial intelligence without stifling it will be one of our biggest challenges as we adopt the most revolutionary technology since fire.

By Nicholas Kristof

Readers express their gratitude and frustration.

Michael February, a boundary-breaking surfer and the first Black South African on the World Surf League Championship Tour, embarks on a transformative journey.

By Sandra Winther and Michael February

Michael February, a boundary-breaking surfer and the first Black South African on the World Surf League Championship Tour, embarks on a transformative journey.

By Sandra Winther

To steer the economy well, a president must see beyond what keeps voters up at night.

By Peter Coy

Readers offer an array of suggestions to the presumptive Democratic nominee. Also: Secret Service women; evangelicals and MAGA.

He has a history of remaking himself to suit the men in his life.

By Michelle Goldberg

Ben Wikler, the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, discusses whether Kamala Harris can appeal to voters in the swing state.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

Voters need a chance to see how the two candidates handle close public scrutiny in debates, interviews and informal events.

By The Editorial Board