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China’s suspected spy balloon is the perfect symbol of its clumsiness

In pushing back against an assertive China, Biden is emerging as the most effective foreign policy president since the Cold War.

By Sebastian Mallaby7 hours ago

Ye olde Supreme Court? Your originalism is making America unsafe.

By Ruth Marcus13 hours ago

In Murdaugh murder trial, the path to conviction remains unclear

By Kathleen Parker15 hours ago

These birds are not extinct. Welcome to … Dodo Park!

By Alexandra Petri2 days ago

The new House majority uses the levers of power to stoke paranoia

By Dana Milbank2 days ago

COLUMNISTS

Cincinnati’s mayor taunted Mahomes. Bengals fans should forgive him.

January 30

Scott Rolen doesn’t seem like a Hall of Famer. Maybe that’s my fault.

January 28

John Paul Brammer

As a gay kid, I felt the instinct to hide. I feel it again now.

July 11

Christian Caryl

Ukrainians are choosing an unusual date for Christmas: Dec. 25

December 21

Perry Bacon Jr.

The problem with the Black Democratic leadership class

January 31

India just took a dangerous step on disinformation

January 26

Asli Aydintasbas

Erdogan may have just made the biggest mistake of his political career

December 19

Black History Month is, uh, not off to a great start

February 3

Lizette Alvarez

Why does U.S. policy still favor Cuban migrants? Others are plenty deserving, too.

December 28

America is in a ‘Great Pulling Apart.’ Can we pull together?

January 31

Xi Jinping doesn’t want to wind up on the losing side in Ukraine

January 30

This is best way to counter Putin’s nuclear threats

October 10

Shabana Basij-Rasikh

The Taliban strikes another blow to Afghanistan’s women

December 21

Jonathan Capehart

Kamala Harris had a most excellent year

December 22

Nikki Haley sits in the muddy middle of the GOP polling zone

February 3

Withholding documents is the wrong Trump case for the DOJ to jump on

August 11

From ‘Avatar’ to Elon Musk, exploration is out and culture war is in

January 10

The Colorado massacre cannot be blamed on mental illness. It’s rooted in hate.

November 21

George T. Conway III

Trump is out for vengeance — and to protect himself from prosecution

November 15

In America, you have to opt out of religion in public life. That’s backward.

February 3

Why France’s overseas territories are voting for anyone but Macron

June 23

E.J. Dionne Jr.

Why Pope Francis stood up for LGBTQ lives

January 29

India’s opposition missed a chance to reset — and take the fight to Modi

October 28

Randall D. Eliason

Newly released memo to Barr was just cover for exonerating Trump

August 25

How do you stop abortion? Here’s what antiabortion marchers told me.

January 26

Please, Gov. Sununu, set a GOP example and stay out of the 2024 race

February 1

Gershom Gorenberg

Netanyahu’s Israeli government is dangerous — and fundamentally weak

January 3

The GOP is in much better shape than you think

February 2

The Democrats have a ‘candidate quality’ problem, too

November 16

Germany’s Green foreign minister is taking the lead on Ukraine

January 12

The U.S.-Israel military simulation is a show of force to Iran

January 26

The America trap: Why our enemies often underestimate us

January 19

Vladimir Kara-Murza

Russians are living in a frightening, distorted reality

January 17

The trial of Mexico’s former security chief is about more than drugs

January 21

Colbert I. King

There’s an unraveling of humanity at D.C.’s McPherson Square

February 3

Industry’s last great electric-car skeptic accepts the inevitable

February 1

What the mass tech layoffs mean for the U.S. economy

January 27

Christy E. Lopez

Cities should get rid of their toxic crime-suppression units

January 31

This book has a vital message, and method, for our times

January 3

Can this sport outmatch China in the Pacific? The West is betting on it.

September 14

Ye olde Supreme Court? Your originalism is making America unsafe.

February 4

The mob in Brazil has done the new government a favor — for now

January 10

Micheline Maynard

New Orleans’s mayor battles an array of problems, some of them self-inflicted

October 24

When kids consider transitioning, parents need to be involved

February 2

Macron remade French politics. Now he’s paying the price.

June 20

J.J. McCullough

No, Ontario is not ‘privatizing’ Canadian health care

February 2

The new House majority uses the levers of power to stoke paranoia

February 3

Pakistan confronts the collapse of its friendship with the Taliban

December 15

The wrong way to fix Ontario’s health-care crisis

January 25

Michele L. Norris

A different kind of inauguration in Annapolis

January 21

Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift debacle was so bad it united the parties

January 26

Republicans have a big Kari Lake problem

February 3

Sergio Peçanha

Hug an election denier

January 18

Kathleen Parker

In Murdaugh murder trial, the path to conviction remains unclear

February 4

Alexandra Petri

These birds are not extinct. Welcome to … Dodo Park!

February 3

A Social Security crisis is a terrible thing to welcome

February 3

Tom Brady, don’t quit!

January 19

Steven Pearlstein

Will party unity tear Congress to pieces?

January 9

Sebastian Mallaby

China’s suspected spy balloon is the perfect symbol of its clumsiness

February 4

Catherine Rampell

Recession, you say? What recession?

February 3

Eugene Robinson

It’s not American history without Black history

February 2

Japan’s prime minister warns of a historic — and dangerous — moment in Asia

January 11

Alyssa Rosenberg

The Oscars finally remembered popular movies can be great art

January 24

Blinken’s Israel visit is an exercise in damage control

February 2

Fernanda Santos

Forget about Kari Lake’s loss. Here’s the biggest sign of Arizona’s moderation.

November 26

The blue Midwest is where DeSantis’s school crackdowns ‘go to die’

February 3

The Republicans don’t want to fix the IRS. Here’s how to do it anyway.

January 16

Stephen Stromberg

The greatest figure in sports, maybe ever, just retired. You probably haven’t heard of him.

September 28

Lawrence H. Summers

How the global Pandemic Fund can live up to its great potential

January 30

Biden’s uphill battle with working-class voters

January 24

Want to cut spending, Republicans? Liberals have some ideas for that.

February 2

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Three important studies shed light on long covid

February 2

California progressivism has its limits, as nuclear Newsom discovers

August 23

Rolling Stone said Jan. 6 leaders used ‘burner’ phones. Where’s the evidence?

February 1

New York’s Rikers Island is a disgraceful emblem of a benighted era

February 3

What if the crisis of democracy is (mostly) in our heads?

January 30

There’s a remedy for Britain’s problems: Rejoin the E.U.

February 2

We keep moving from one wrong fight to another. Here’s how to stop.

December 8

Keith B. Richburg

Hong Kong celebrates the lifting of pandemic rules

December 31

Iran’s legal proceedings against protesters are worse than show trials

February 1

M&M’s accept Tucker Carlson’s invite to the culture wars

January 25

Joe Scarborough

The war in Ukraine is moving into a new phase. Biden and the West had better get ready.

March 14

RowVaughn Wells joins a group no mother should have to belong to

January 30

David Von Drehle

Yes, I’m a Kansas City Chiefs fan. I’m also a traitor.

January 27

Marc A. Thiessen

Republicans need to pivot on the debt limit. Here’s a winning demand.

February 2