Guest Essays

As a civilian humanist, my presence might — for some attendees — invalidate my arguments; I wouldn’t be heard because of what I represent to the right.

By Paisley Rekdal

The president is the “political-societal equivalent of a neutron bomb.”

By Thomas B. Edsall

The government’s fall was entirely avoidable.

By Harrison Stetler

My city is taking an innovative approach to crime prevention. It does not involve the military.

By Brandon Johnson

Should filmmakers have to take a stand on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

By Sharon Waxman

As China threatens to overtake U.S. leadership in science and technology, America has responded by sabotaging its own engines of progress.

By Stephen Greenblatt

Colombia’s return to conflict is a lesson in how hard it is to sustain progress toward peace.

By Elizabeth Dickinson

The message to other companies is plain: It pays to break the law.

By Jonathan Kanter

Dog parenting has gotten out of control. That’s what I said to myself eight months ago.

By Rachel Feintzeig

Size matters in great-power contests, and the U.S. can’t go it alone against China.

By Kurt Campbell and Rush Doshi

The designer led a fashion revolution but did so with civility.

By Robin Givhan

Disposable plastics have profoundly reshaped the way we eat, shop, raise children and understand hygiene and progress.

By Saabira Chaudhuri

Because of legalized gambling, baseball has no integrity.

By J.R. Moehringer

Economic data suggests labor supply and immigration changes are affecting job growth. The Federal Reserve can’t fix that, but Trump can.

By Jason Furman

Many residents are willing to endorse or participate in violent resistance.

By Robert A. Pape

The president has ordered up an incomplete and self-serving version of American history.

By Kevin Sack

It’s about more than figuring out the right or wrong answers to questions.

By Eugenia Cheng

For one thing, Americans get new cancer drugs way before Europeans.

By Aaron E. Carroll

There may never be a better moment for China, Iran, North Korea and Russia to challenge the U.S.-led global system.

By Richard Fontaine and Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Fred Pressman respected no brand as much as the ultimate brand: quality. And that, Giorgio Armani delivered in spades.

By Gene Pressman

As a parent and congressman, I do not want my children’s brains to be programmed by corporations.

By Jake Auchincloss

Our research shows that many of the strongest bonds come not from any amount of similarity but from playful banter.

By Maya Rossignac-Milon and Erica Boothby

Teenagers are being recruited for one-off covert attacks behind enemy lines.

By Lilia Yapparova

Building bigger A.I. isn’t leading to better A.I.

By Gary Marcus

The city embraced new technology without much thought to the consequences and regretted it.

By Nicole Gelinas

What comes next?

By Oren Cass

The conviction of the transitional prime minister in Chad is emblematic of how democracy is eroding across northern Africa.

By Esias Bedingar

How should his opponents respond?

By Thomas B. Edsall

If Democrats gerrymander California, they will lose the moral high ground.

By Charles T. Munger Jr.

The impact of climate change on the geographic features that demarcate many frontiers is adding to longstanding beefs over borders.

By Peter Schwartzstein

Besides, addicted people are not the only ones affected by their behavior.

By Keith Humphreys

With support, returnees’ skills and resilience can fuel economic growth back home.

By Anita Isaacs

Agency leaders sound the alarm.

By Richard Besser, Mandy K. Cohen, William Foege, Tom Frieden, Jeffrey Koplan, William Roper, David Satcher, Anne Schuchat and Rochelle P. Walensky

Together, we can help ensure that beautiful birds continue to grace our skies.

By Margaret Renkl

Ending cash bail works. Trump wants to bring it back everywhere anyway.

By Jeremy Cherson and David Gaspar

Even if Mamdani is as awful as his opponents insist, campaigning against an opponent’s flaws works only if you don’t seem even worse.

By Nicole Gelinas

The new, higher premium placed on college application essays that focus on racially traumatic experiences produces numerous undesirable consequences.

By Justin Driver

Why the labor movement needs to act as though its future is under grave threat.

By Erik Loomis

For President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, the stakes for next year’s election could not be higher.

By Andre Pagliarini

The Trump administration could update the Roadless Rule to permit temporary roads to allow for forest thinning.

By Robert Bonnie

As an emblem of resistance to Trump administration policies, the ineffectualness of a floppy sandwich is distressingly apt.

By Bruce Handy

Buying a new, adult couch in a space of my own felt monumental.

By Elizabeth Austin

India must decide whether to go all in with a capricious Trump or hedge its bets through a rapprochement with China.

By Kapil Komireddi

The health secretary is endangering the lives of American people now and into the future.

By Bernie Sanders

There’s a reason America is now loving the band.

By Lizzy Goodman

It is the duty of Israeli military reserves to stay home and not fight an unjust war.

By Yotam Vilk

Yards should be wilder, freer and more alive.

By Ken Ilgunas

We drag around our brokenness in the same container as our holiness.

By Anne Lamott

Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.

By Michael Brownstein and Alex Madva

By turning away from evidence when it doesn’t suit, the administration is showing that it doesn’t think it matters whether it has the better argument.

By Hannah Bloch-Wehba

Where the center of American politics may be alive and well.

By Kristen Soltis Anderson

Urban wildfires are becoming public health emergencies.

By David L. Ulin

Trump’s meddling in our most important economic institutions is so extreme that at times it resembles China’s state-directed capitalism.

By Steven Rattner

Who is offering an instructive example to help lead the party out of a very deep hole?

By Frank Bruni, Lauren Egan and Adam Jentleson

This isn’t policing. It’s political theater.

By Andrea R. Flores

The theme-park operator, like so many other companies, is abandoning America’s middle class.

By Daniel Currell and Paola Chapdelaine

A new paradigm for the old pairing of male athlete and beautiful female star.

By Jennifer Weiner

Trump’s effort to oust Lisa Cook could have all sorts of worrisome consequences.

By Kate Shaw

New Orleans after Katrina is a cautionary tale for every place in America that will one day face its own disaster.

By Mark F. Bonner and Mathew D. Sanders

It starts with flattery.

By Dmytro Kuleba

It will be effective if people who work at big tech companies start quitting their jobs.

By Tim Wu

Since A.I. has made the mental effort of writing and problem solving optional, universities need new ways to require the work needed for learning.

By Clay Shirky

The solution is deceptively simple.

By Tommy Barone and Jacob M. Miller

The jarring juxtapositions in Richard Misrach’s photographs of New Orleans whiplash the viewer between bleak slapstick and horror.

By Nathaniel Rich and Richard Misrach

Brazil, India and other emerging countries are hedging their bets against the United States.

By Matias Spektor

The crowning achievement of the civil rights era is unlikely to see its 61st birthday.

By Linda Greenhouse

The V.A. expanded women’s health benefits in 2022. The Trump administration wants to reverse that.

By Chelsea Donaldson

We are deploying digital pseudo-therapists at an unprecedented scale, and those most at risk of negative outcomes are teens.

By Ryan K. McBain

Few are happy with how Congress is performing these days, including its members, with increasingly unpleasant jobs. It’s time to recruit better talent.

By Brendan Buck

We need a bipartisan solution that ensures a stable farm work force and protects farmworker families and the future of American agriculture.

By Robert Rivas and Shannon Douglass

The president and his allies should not be trusted to ensure the integrity of the vote.

By Barton Gellman

When Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are looking at maps of Ukraine and deciding which parts Russia should have, it’s time to make waffles.

By Jenya Polosina

Longing for the past can be good news for the future.

By Clay Routledge

The incessant alerts are annoying but also feel like community.

By Emma Rosenblum

If the F.B.I. is seen as a tool of retribution, it will come at the expense of its effectiveness in the long run.

By Asha Rangappa

Tennis can teach us lessons about how America can be first but also stay open to the world.

By Evan Lieberman

If the president plans to replace Social Security, the American people deserve to know.

By Thomas Kahn

Spy fiction thrives on verisimilitude. Why are so many writers so incompetent when it comes to naming foreign characters?

By Michael Idov

It isn’t just members of the MAGA faithful who are feeling let down.

By James Kirchick

Community violence intervention programs are reducing crime. Trump’s funding cuts and National Guard deployments will probably increase it.

By Arne Duncan

Surprise people. Make them laugh and cry.

By Glenn Kramon

What do data integrity, tariffs, inflation and debt add up to?

By Josh Barro, N. Gregory Mankiw and Betsey Stevenson

Williamstown Theater Festival gets a reboot.

By Raphael Picciarelli

The uncertainty around the future of Medicaid is paralyzing for families like mine.

By Rachel Roth Aldhizer

Let’s go back to the good old days when students had only flip phones and were learning more.

By Ezekiel J. Emanuel

A U.S. strike on cartels in Mexico won’t fix the deep problems that allow organized crime to flourish.

By Ioan Grillo

Deepfakes are getting more realistic and more difficult to stop. Congress needs to take steps now.

By Amy Klobuchar

In Oklahoma City we’re not put off by talk about reverse discrimination that attacks equal opportunity and celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

By David Holt

Heat waves are increasingly dangerous for those without water, shade and air-conditioning.

By Jeff Goodell and Tova Katzman

It is going to be up to states, the courts and ultimately the American people to stop the president’s attempt to further erode American democracy.

By Richard L. Hasen