In Venezuela, a Suspicious Win for the Strongmen
A declaration of victory by the Maduro regime is another case of how democracy is backsliding in Latin America.
By Michael Albertus
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
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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
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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
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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
Prayers at events such as the Republican National Convention can take on the feel of a religious veneer for certain policies.
By Esau McCaulley and Thalassa Raasch and Damon Winter
Have translation tools made learning a language pointless? Not a chance.
By Mark Vanhoenacker
With JD Vance at his back, the former president has cemented his legacy.
By Michael Lind
Center-left parties must lead the way to restore the social contract that binds democracies together.
By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Roe is history, but abortion hasn’t ended.
By Patrick T. Brown
Times Opinion writers assess Night 4 of the Republican convention, which included speeches from Hulk Hogan, Mike Pompeo and Donald Trump.
By New York Times Opinion
The United States can support Venezuelan democracy by creating an offramp for President Nicolás Maduro.
By Roberto Patiño
Disaster movies make for thrilling blockbusters. But the reality of a changing climate is slow-motion tragedy, broken bureaucracy and lingering tedium.
By Chris Vognar
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For his convention speech, Donald Trump faces a new, more promising rhetorical and political situation.
By Charles R. Kesler
Times Opinion writers assess Night 3 of the convention, which included speeches from Peter Navarro, Kimberly Guilfoyle and J.D. Vance.
By New York Times Opinion
None of the women on the Olympic team live in Afghanistan, nor could they visit without risking their lives. They deserve places on the refugee team.
By Friba Rezayee
Gen X’s quintessential bad girl was never really all that bad.
By Jennifer Weiner
No disingenuous spin blitz by his loyalists or flurry of teleprompter-driven campaign events can lift the heavy weight sinking the president.
By Mike Murphy
Exactly what the vice-presidential candidate has renounced in exchange for power is in the public record for all to see.
By Ed Simon
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