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.

A Crude Ad About a Banana — And a Primary That Could Predict the GOP’s Future

March 29, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Eight bipartisan ideas that Congress could act on this session

March 27, 2026 04:50 p.m.
What Washington doesn’t get about young Americans — according to 22 college students and recent grads.

March 20, 2026 05:17 p.m.
Trump as Alexander the Great: A Theory That Explains Iran (And Everything Else)

March 15, 2026 01:05 a.m.
What will Iran look like in one year? Eight guesses from foreign policy experts.

March 09, 2026 02:07 a.m.
Four changes in the day-to-day work of Congress that could meaningfully improve governance.

March 06, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Are the Iran strikes a good idea?

March 01, 2026 12:59 a.m.
Describe Trump’s State of the Union speech in one word

February 25, 2026 01:01 a.m.
How Pro-Democracy Foreign Policy Can Survive Trump — And Emerge Stronger Than Ever

February 20, 2026 05:10 a.m.
How should President Trump open his State of the Union? Nine (realistic and not-so-realistic) ideas.

February 20, 2026 05:00 a.m.
What is the Republicans’ single biggest weakness heading into the midterms, and how can it be overcome?

February 13, 2026 05:00 a.m.
The Coming Conservative Turn Against Israel Goes Much Deeper Than You Realize

February 06, 2026 05:10 a.m.
What is the Democrats’ single biggest weakness heading into the midterms, and how can it be overcome?

February 06, 2026 05:00 a.m.
How Should Democrats Feel About the MAGA Women of Congress?

January 30, 2026 05:00 a.m.
Can a Populist Who Likens Herself to Zohran Mamdani Topple a Staid Democratic Incumbent in North Carolina?

January 28, 2026 05:10 a.m.
What do the events of this year’s World Economic Forum signal about the future of the global order?

January 28, 2026 05:00 a.m.