Guest Essays

Russia and China have seized on last week’s painful presidential debate to push their narrative that America is in terminal decline.

Keir Starmer is set to carry a deeply authoritarian impulse into government.

Reflecting on the parallels between campaigns that got caught up in existential threats to the nation.

It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.

Big Tech is increasingly safe from government regulation.

The stakes have never been higher.

An evidentiary hearing in federal court could lay out previously undisclosed information.

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.

An open convention wouldn’t be a disaster for the Democrats. It might even help them win.

It would be so easy to find a new and less harmful way to celebrate the founding of a nation.

Some kids are unable to get the care they need because of a shortage of pediatricians, and the problem could get worse.

Money-strapped millennials, inflation and the tough economics of the restaurant business have birthed a wait-in-line dining culture.

The intolerance in the L.G.B.T.Q. community for nuanced views of the war in Gaza is not what the rainbow flag stands for.

It’s time to use warning labels to steer people away from food that’s bad for them.

There is widespread agreement, even in museums, that questionable pieces in collections should be returned. But returned to whom?

The president had a bad night, but the fundamentals of this race have not changed.

An alternative photographic history of the Pride march shows that real belonging starts in the crowd, where people find refuge and community.

The court swept aside a precedent that endangers countless regulations — and transfers power from the executive branch to Congress and the courts.

Everyone in our system, including judges and members of Congress, will be nudged to do their proper constitutional work.

Schools ground migrant children and their families when everything else — the language, the city, the culture, the people — is brand-new.

The international community must insist on reversing the restriction of Afghan women’s and girls’ rights and on women’s meaningful participation in decision making.

The celebrated show is both a product of our unhealthy obsession with toxic restaurant culture and a potential remedy for it.

To win on Thursday, Biden will have to override his instincts and defy the constraints and conventions of presidential debates.

It’s impossible to see the court’s decision upholding a law disarming domestic abusers as anything but an exercise in institutional self-preservation.

Both parties are changing shape. What should they do about it?

Two political experts weigh in on what it might take to succeed.

We believe the prime minister is driving Israel downhill at an alarming speed, to the extent that we may eventually lose the country we love.

Our kids’ lingo is not only better than any we used; it’s a useful window into the way they think.

Universities that cataloged election lies and disinformation are being targeted with the same tactics they sought to uncover.

Thursday’s debate is time to preach to the choir.

Going head-to-head with the former president is like juggling nonsense, blather and bluster.

I’ve studied voter reaction and opinions about every presidential debate since 1992. This is what to do and not to do.

Saying goodbye to Rascal, the little rescue dog gone too soon.

The modest campaign created an opening for today’s anti-L.G.B.T.Q. backlash.

We live in an age when people can live longer and healthier even with significant health conditions. What does this mean for future presidents?

The island’s power crisis illustrates the consequences of putting essential services in the hands of a private entity.

A pop diva inspires and unites fans in ways that few other cultural figures can. Which is why we should all be rooting for Celine Dion.

He has the lowest level of corporate support in the history of the Republican Party.

It is looking more and more like a project to universalize the un-universalizable.

What are we to do with this privileged pop star?