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Harris vs. Trump Is Taking Shape. And Then There’s Vance.
It’s a whole new era in presidential politics. Right?
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
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
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
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
He has a history of remaking himself to suit the men in his life.
By Michelle Goldberg
Voters need a chance to see how the two candidates handle close public scrutiny in debates, interviews and informal events.
By The Editorial Board
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
A strong politician in some ways, but also deeply flawed. Now, she’s ours.
By David Brooks
The G.O.P. has turned its own ignorance into a point of pride.
By Pamela Paul
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
The supreme gratification of watching Nancy Pelosi go to work.
By Jessica Bennett
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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
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
As Democratic leaders fall in line behind Harris, her strengths and weaknesses warrant a closer look.
By Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Lydia Polgreen
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
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
The past month in American politics has been exhausting.
By Katherine Miller
What are the alternatives? And about those Republicans …
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
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What would President Bartlet do?
By Aaron Sorkin
Having Trump as a dominant figure keeps American politics in a state of unsettlement.
By Ross Douthat
With JD Vance at his back, the former president has cemented his legacy.
By Michael Lind
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
If Democrats hope to win, they have to take the MAGA worldview seriously and respectfully make the case, especially to working-class voters, for something better.
By David Brooks
Those who want a new presidential nominee need to go public.
By Michelle Goldberg
In the canon of Trump books and speeches, “fight” is a constant byword.
By Carlos Lozada
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
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America is a country where spectacular violence doesn’t require an explanation.
By David Wallace-Wells
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
What our columnists and contributors thought of speeches from Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elise Stefanik on the event’s second night.
By New York Times Opinion
The Republican nominee has the opportunity to rein in some of the worst rhetorical impulses of his party and point it in a new direction.
By Chris Christie
Why Republicans are jubilant and Democrats are despondent.
By Kristen Soltis Anderson
We have less information than ever before about the impact that our underregulated social media platforms have on our politics.
By Julia Angwin
Here’s what our columnists and contributors thought of the opening night for Republicans in Milwaukee.
By New York Times Opinion
The data that meters generate must be standardized and widely available to be useful. Right now it mostly isn’t.
By Michael E. Murray
What choosing the Ohio senator as running mate tells us about Trump.
By Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens
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In the real world, noble ideals don’t guarantee a victory.
By Elizabeth Spiers
The former president’s nomination speech may well be the most-watched address in a generation.
By Frank Bruni, Michelle Cottle, David French and Patrick Healy
Many leaders have faced a similar situation. There are simple solutions.
By Adam Grant
The chief justice and his allies have rewritten the Constitution to make it say what they want it to say.
By Jamelle Bouie
But the conservative justices can’t distance themselves from the significant damage they have caused.
By Jesse Wegman
The problem with identity politics becoming our moral system is that it undermines democracy.
By David Brooks
Biden’s nomination crisis is far from over.
By Ezra Klein
The Senate majority leader moves strategically and with an endgame in mind, and he likes building consensus. There is still a lack of it on Mr. Biden.
By Michelle Cottle
Reflections on the remarkable end to the Supreme Court term.
By Kate Shaw, William Baude and Stephen I. Vladeck
It isn’t too late to start a constructive conversation about aging and leadership.
By Clark Hoyt
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In the case of the former president, it is far more dangerous to underestimate than to overestimate his capacity to wreak havoc.
By Thomas B. Edsall
It is no accident that he is talking about immigrants’ “poisoning the blood of our country.”
By Jamelle Bouie
Conservative politics often goes from online to the real world. Jane Coaston interviews Mary Katharine Ham about how conservative influencers have changed.
By Jane Coaston
He is gravitating toward the extreme fringes of the conservative legal world.
By Jay Willis
This time with actual presidents.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.
By William Baude
Young Latino voters are progressives. But Mr. Biden needs to give them a reason to vote for him.
By Jean Guerrero
The Democratic Party seems to be playing the wait-and-see game, hoping polls give it permission to pull the emergency brake.
By Kristen Soltis Anderson
Christian nationalists aim to impose their beliefs on others.
By Pamela Paul
If casting a ballot is merely expressive, then the same is true of not casting one.
By Matthew Walther
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We’re seeing what a modern disinformation operation run by the U.S. looks like. It’s not pretty.
By David Wallace-Wells
The court dismisses an abortion case it now says it should never have accepted, opening a window on internal tensions.
By Linda Greenhouse
Those urging Jill Biden to persuade her husband to drop out may misunderstand the nature of their marriage.
By Michelle Cottle
Looking at polls beyond the straight horse-race numbers between Biden and Trump offers a glimpse of hope for Democrats.
By Nate Silver
Russia and China have seized on last week’s painful presidential debate to push their narrative that America is in terminal decline.
By Sergey Radchenko
Reflecting on the parallels between campaigns that got caught up in existential threats to the nation.
By Kevin Boyle
The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.
By Jamelle Bouie
It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.
By Kate Shaw
Big Tech is increasingly safe from government regulation.
By Tim Wu
Instead of delivering a judgment many months ago and allowing the trial to proceed, the justices gave Trump the gift of delay piled upon delay.
By Laurence H. Tribe
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Mr. Trump keeps being the person we know — statically supported by 44 to 49 percent of people on any given day, with or without enthusiasm.
By Katherine Miller
An open convention wouldn’t be a disaster for the Democrats. It might even help them win.
By Bill Maher
Americans are owed better from the Democratic Party.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
On the eve of going to prison, populism’s grand strategist talks about what another Trump presidency would look like and the rise of MAGA-type movements around the world.
By David Brooks
Donald Trump is too grave a threat to America. Democrats need a nominee who can unite the country and articulate a compelling vision for it.
By Thomas L. Friedman
A debate before the debate.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
When the two candidates square off, we can expect disorientation, dizziness and much else.
By Frank Bruni, Matthew Continetti and Olivia Nuzzi
To win on Thursday, Biden will have to override his instincts and defy the constraints and conventions of presidential debates.
By Jeff Shesol
The left’s narcissism of small differences hands mainstream positions to Republicans.
By Pamela Paul
We take a look at J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Doug Burgum, Tim Scott, Elise Stefanik and more possible Republican running mates.
By Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens
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It’s impossible to see the court’s decision upholding a law disarming domestic abusers as anything but an exercise in institutional self-preservation.
By Linda Greenhouse
Both parties are changing shape. What should they do about it?
By Thomas B. Edsall
Universities that cataloged election lies and disinformation are being targeted with the same tactics they sought to uncover.
By Renée DiResta
The breathless catastrophizing of Trump and his allies is not an expression of ignorance as much as it is a statement of intent.
By Jamelle Bouie
Thursday’s debate is time to preach to the choir.
By Elizabeth Spiers
Going head-to-head with the former president is like juggling nonsense, blather and bluster.
By Hillary Rodham Clinton
I’ve studied voter reaction and opinions about every presidential debate since 1992. This is what to do and not to do.
By Frank Luntz
He has the lowest level of corporate support in the history of the Republican Party.
By Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld
Her political future will be decided in Tuesday’s Republican congressional primary. Is there a limit to MAGA antics?
By Michelle Cottle
It is looking more and more like a project to universalize the un-universalizable.
By Christopher Caldwell
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The candidates have no shortage of flaws.
By Ross Douthat
The former president is no more prepared for a second term than he was for a first. He may even be less prepared.
By Jamelle Bouie
Democrats should rally around a bill to overhaul the 1873 anti-vice law.
By Michelle Goldberg
Rubio would offer Latinos the chance to vote for one of their own to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
By Michael LaRosa
The U.S. bombings that ended World War II didn’t mark the close of atomic warfare. They were just the beginning.
By W.J. Hennigan
They need to stop accepting short-term victories.
By Sarah Isgur
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