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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
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