Guest Essays

Electoral success has a thousand fathers, each with his own agenda.

By Oren Cass

Democrats got exactly what they set out to get, and now here we are.

By Thomas Frank

Biden too often could not find the best way to help Democrats win.

By Josh Barro

Election night and the day after, 2024.

By Katherine Miller

Democrats walked into the trap of defending the very institutions most Americans distrust.

By Ben Rhodes

Resistance politics inevitably feels conservative. It’s reactionary in a literal sense, and this week, it ended in disaster for the Democrats.

By Timothy Shenk

The 2024 election has the potential to challenge the New Deal realignment of 1932 as the most consequential election of the past 100 years.

By Thomas B. Edsall

Mounting development is a grave threat because of how it is carving up an ecosystem that must stay relatively intact to function.

By Arthur Middleton

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

Making sense of this election’s very strange abortion politics.

By Jill Filipovic