The World | Opinion

In a year filled with elections, the state of democracy is thriving by many measures. But there are dark clouds on the horizon.

By Veith Selk

The war in the Middle East has become this era’s most important progressive cause.

By Peter Beinart

There could have been as many as 50,000 babies trafficked out of Chile between the 1950s and the 1990s.

By Jimmy L. Thyden González

Rage can be a dangerous political tool.

By Paco Cerdà

The Biden administration bears responsibility for the mass murder and starvation of Palestinian civilians.

By Megan K. Stack

This election has shown that Arab American and Muslim American lives are considered to be expendable.

By Lydia Polgreen

A new generation of Puerto Ricans, shaped by disaster and debt, is determined to reclaim the island’s future.

By Yarimar Bonilla

An attack on culture divides the very people who should be in direct dialogue, reading one another’s books. It cannot be that the solution to conflict is to read less, not more.

By Deborah Harris and Jessica Kasmer-Jacobs

Even if you think Harris is flawed on the Middle East, don’t try to punish the Democratic Party and risk a Trump election.

By Nicholas Kristof

His Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the war was warmly received by the Pentagon but rejected elsewhere for ignoring what many said made the war “unwinnable.”

By Adam Nossiter