Guest Essays

A declaration of victory by the Maduro regime is another case of how democracy is backsliding in Latin America.

By Michael Albertus

When art changes opinions or opens hearts, it changes the world as profoundly as any legislation does.

By Margaret Renkl

The Fed’s refusal to lower interest rates is souring the public in an election year, harming vulnerable Americans, hindering the fight against climate change and potentially destabilizing the economy.

By Jen Harris

Fishing the ocean’s twilight zone could unleash climate chaos.

By Porter Fox

Voters deserve transparency.

By Robert Klitzman

Until we narrow the scope of what police officers can do, we’ll continue to see officers bring violence into situations that don’t require it.

By Tahir Duckett

She will need a message that reconnects the Democratic Party with the working-class voters it has alienated in recent decades.

By Michael J. Sandel

Politics has become so much like entertainment that the first thing we do to make sense of the moment is to test it against a sitcom.

By Armando Iannucci

We don’t let preadolescent kids work. Why do we let them appear in the most high-pressure athletic contests on a global stage?

By Linda Flanagan

The former president is praising the era when tariffs fueled the federal budget — and also caused social dislocation and financial instability.

By Steven R. Weisman