Columns

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Intergalactic behemoths are changing how you’re shaped

Plus: What your beach read says about you. Opposing strongmen. Chronic school absenteeism.

By Drew Goins1 hour ago

Stemming youth crime is Job One for D.C. Will city leaders act like it?

By Colbert I. King2 hours ago

Readers speak: Are spirituality and science compatible?

By Karen Attiah7 hours ago

A perpetually surprised media isn’t doing its job

By Jennifer Rubin8 hours ago

Will the real Lindsey Graham please stand up?

By Kathleen Parker8 hours ago

COLUMNISTS

Can an unbiased cable news channel succeed? Not while Trump is around.

June 20

We hit rock bottom on civics education. Can we turn it around?

May 23

Readers speak: Are spirituality and science compatible?

July 7

Modi’s political party has weaponized Bollywood

June 20

Perry Bacon Jr.

Two Black columnists discuss college after affirmative action

June 30

Biden won on the debt ceiling. Why doesn’t he want it to look that way?

June 1

Don’t second-guess the Ukrainian counteroffensive. It’s just starting.

June 29

8 min

This Supreme Court pits us against them

June 30

I helped revise the D.C. criminal code. Biden and Bowser are wrong.

March 14

The GOP has a glaring Mormon problem

July 3

Jonathan Capehart

What’s at stake in real money if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling

May 26

Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for religious schools

June 27

6 min

This Ramadan showed how France isn’t comfortable with Muslim athletes

April 22

E.J. Dionne Jr.

If ‘Bidenomics’ works, it will be a very big deal

June 28

Two Black columnists discuss college after affirmative action

June 30

Abraham Jiménez Enoa

Cuba is far more fragile than you think

May 24

Merrick Garland runs into reality

July 7

How to fight China’s memory-holing of the Uyghur genocide

July 3

Marco Rubio’s plan to wean America off its China addiction

March 9

Russia hasn’t stopped maneuvering for a role in internet oversight

July 6

Theordore R. Johnson

Juneteenth is a holiday for all Americans. It’s our second independence day.

June 18

The America trap: Why our enemies often underestimate us

January 19

39 min

Vladimir Kara-Murza

The West deserves much of the blame for Putin’s rise to unchecked power

June 21

Colbert I. King

Stemming youth crime is Job One for D.C. Will city leaders act like it?

July 7

The real tragedy is unfolding on the Mexican side of the border

May 16

U.S. institutions are polling about as well as King George III did in 1776

July 6

San Francisco is a mess. But you’d be wrong to count it out.

June 27

Here are President Biden’s debt ceiling options, ranked

May 23

Christy E. Lopez

Why Justice’s report on Minneapolis policing is such a watershed

June 21

Sebastian Mallaby

From bank runs to a credit crunch, the financial future looks bleak

March 17

Top court watcher: This term was marked by a broad expansion of judicial power

July 4

Micheline Maynard

Why the senseless Michigan State shooting could spark real change

February 14

Why there’s reason to believe American democracy has a bright future

July 3

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

June 20

How I learned to love toxic chemicals

June 30

Michele L. Norris

‘Succession’ dulled Americans to the poison seeping into their lives

May 29

Companies hate remote work — till it’s time to fire you

April 12

6 min

Democrats, spare me your complaints about partisan justices

July 7

Kathleen Parker

Will the real Lindsey Graham please stand up?

July 7

Sergio Peçanha

Type in your job to see how much AI will affect it

May 9

Alexandra Petri

What your beach reading says about you

July 7

Affirmative action should be illegal — not unconstitutional

July 2

Catherine Rampell

How America can exploit China’s brain drain

July 6

He has flown 23 million miles. Here are his travel secrets.

June 23

Press freedom’s unsung hero

June 5

Keith B. Richburg

Let’s celebrate a rare democratic success story in Southeast Asia

May 24

We must give Tucker Carlson an exit ramp

June 7

What internet jokes about the submersible disaster say about society

June 23

Eugene Robinson

Why do colleges need affirmative action? America’s past and present.

June 29

Biden tells Syrian activists he still thinks Assad must go

July 6

Alyssa Rosenberg

Why Congress should pay grandma to mind the kids

July 3

The most capable Trump primary opponent isn’t in the race

July 6

Why MAGA elites are facing a fresh set of disasters

July 7

Why the commercial real estate crisis may not be as bad as you think

June 29

Lawrence H. Summers

The affirmative action ruling is big. Now elite colleges need to think bigger.

July 1

The evidence mounts: Hispanic voters are drifting toward the GOP

July 5

Marc A. Thiessen

Affirmative action can’t fix racial disparities in education. This can.

July 5

America’s big cities have seen a crime surge. Not Dallas — thanks to its mayor.

June 14

Bina Venkataraman

Is guilt-free meat possible?

July 3

David Von Drehle

What happened in Russia — and what happens next? Our columnists weigh in.

June 26

The bizarre contradiction in the GOP’s view of America

July 7

Your questions about covid-19, answered by Dr. Leana Wen

Updated July 6

What it takes to rupture Fox News’s wall of silence

July 6

Reasons for ambivalence about the ruling on web design and same-sex marriage

July 7

Why a court’s ruling on Biden and social media matters for democracy

July 6

Declaring war on Mexican cartels is popular. That doesn’t mean it’s smart.

July 7