Perspectives

On the Road With Rahm Emanuel: He Embodies His Party’s Past. Could He Also Be Its Future?

By David Montgomery

October 23, 2026 01:02 p.m.
Dana Milbank: No Attack Is Too Vile for JD Vance

By Dana Milbank

October 22, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Matt K. Lewis: Mike Johnson Really Needs to Stop Insisting the Polls Are Wrong

By Matt K. Lewis

October 21, 2026 11:06 a.m.

Dana Milbank: How Big a Wave? This Minnesota Math Teacher Could Be the Democrats’ High-Water Mark.

October 14, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Dana Milbank: We Have a Chance to Break Out of Our National Doom Loop in 2028. Here’s How.

October 07, 2026 11:51 a.m.
Dana Milbank: Ballparks in Our National Parks? Trump’s Plundering Is in a League of Its Own.

October 02, 2026 05:00 a.m.

Matt K. Lewis: Don’t Bet on JD Vance in 2028

October 08, 2026 01:13 p.m.
Matt K. Lewis: I Almost Never Vote for Democrats. I’m Making an Exception This Year.

September 30, 2026 09:37 p.m.
Matt K. Lewis: How Trump Blew Up His Coalition, Group by Group

September 22, 2026 03:50 p.m.

Robin Givhan: Stop Belittling Kamala Harris

By Robin Givhan

October 09, 2026 06:10 p.m.
How ‘Hamilton’ Became Cool Again

By Anusha Mathur

September 25, 2026 10:53 a.m.
Robin Givhan: The Complicated Masculinity of Abdul El-Sayed

By Robin Givhan

September 12, 2026 05:00 a.m.
The Ballad of Scott Brown Is the Story of the Republican Party in 2026

By Bill Donahue

September 03, 2026 03:01 p.m.

perspectives legislative losers

Forum: Sen. Bill Cassidy, Rep. Al Green and 16 Other Candidates on Losing Their 2026 Primaries.

October 14, 2026 02:44 p.m.

What Washington Gets Wrong About Education — According to 12 Teachers From Across the Country

September 30, 2026 04:03 p.m.
Five Reflections on 9/11 — By People Who Were Born After 9/11

September 11, 2026 01:16 p.m.
Under-the-Radar Ideas to Improve American Energy Policy that Could Pass Congress this Year

July 24, 2026 04:15 p.m.
What Is the Most Significant Gap in the Social Safety Net for American Families?

June 26, 2026 04:56 p.m.
What Washington Gets Wrong About Religion, According to 14 Religious Leaders and Experts

June 12, 2026 03:15 p.m.

Forget Mar-a-Lago Face. The Real Symbol of Right-Wing Politics Is the Cinched Waist.

August 23, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Dana Milbank: Data Centers Are Destroying Virginia’s Countryside — Even in Places That Have No Data Centers

August 21, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Reagan Worship Is So Yesterday. Republicans Need a New Hero — And It Should Be Teddy Roosevelt.

August 19, 2026 02:18 p.m.
1,000 People Met in a Park to Eat Apples Together. What Does It Say About Washington in 2026?

August 19, 2026 02:12 p.m.
Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson Are Right: Politicians Should Care About Aesthetics.

August 14, 2026 10:51 a.m.
Baseball and America’s Summer of Socialism

August 11, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Dana Milbank: Ted Cruz Threw an Islamophobic Party — And Nobody Showed Up

August 06, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Why the R-Word Is the Defining Slur of the Trump Era

August 05, 2026 05:00 a.m.
What Is Wrong With the Republicans Who Said Yes to Blanche?

August 04, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Matt K. Lewis: All Hail the Thoughtful Conservative Pundit Who Gives MAGA Ideas a Respectable Face

July 31, 2026 02:07 p.m.
Dana Milbank: I Was Prepared to Dislike Abdul El-Sayed. Then I Came to Michigan and Spoke to Him.

July 31, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Matt K. Lewis: ‘King of the Hill’ Is a Roadmap to a Better Conservatism

July 28, 2026 02:28 p.m.
Under-the-Radar Ideas to Improve American Energy Policy that Could Pass Congress this Year

July 24, 2026 04:15 p.m.
In Defense of Nixonmaxxing

July 23, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Dana Milbank: Maybe Pete Hegseth Is the One With a Testosterone Problem

July 22, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Matt K. Lewis: Let’s Reclaim ‘America First’ From the Bigots and Sycophants

July 21, 2026 05:00 a.m.