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.

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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.

Dana Milbank: Vance, Trump and the Week of So Much Losing

June 18, 2026 05:36 p.m.
Did the Knicks Just ... Save Us?

June 18, 2026 05:19 p.m.
What Washington Gets Wrong About Religion, According to 14 Religious Leaders and Experts

June 12, 2026 03:15 p.m.
Dana Milbank: Who Caused the Screwworm Outbreak? Joe Biden, Of Course.

June 11, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Dana Milbank: War and Inflation? Relax. Trump Did You a ‘Favor.’

June 09, 2026 05:00 a.m.
I Tried to Document How Every Member of Congress Feels About AI. The Results Were Strikingly Partisan.

June 06, 2026 11:41 p.m.
This Gerrymandered California District Could Decide Control of the House. Will Democrats Blow It?

May 29, 2026 01:21 p.m.
What will be the main long-term impact of the Trump-Xi summit? Predictions from 11 foreign policy experts.

May 22, 2026 01:17 p.m.
Disease, Drought, Climate Change — And the Joy of Fighting Back

May 16, 2026 05:00 a.m.
16 Washington Post veterans on what they would change about D.C. journalism.

May 08, 2026 04:09 p.m.
Should Presidents Really Have to Be At Least 35?

May 05, 2026 05:00 a.m.
How the Iran War Could Bring the Far Right to Power in Europe

May 01, 2026 01:14 p.m.
I Mostly Ignored Politics for 10 Months. What Did I Miss?

April 24, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Ten retiring senators and representatives: Here’s what would surprise Americans about Congress.

April 17, 2026 01:43 p.m.
I’m a Maine Reporter Who Went to High School With Graham Platner. Here’s What Explains His Success.

April 11, 2026 08:00 a.m.
Where should Washington look for moral authority in 2026?

April 03, 2026 02:35 p.m.