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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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