Today's Editorials
Mr. Obama’s Offer to Republicans
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The president said what he heard from voters Tuesday was to “get stuff done,” and he pointed out areas where he thinks agreement could be reached. Comments
I could save the birds, or at least try. I could do nothing for my father.
The president said what he heard from voters Tuesday was to “get stuff done,” and he pointed out areas where he thinks agreement could be reached. Comments
Now Republicans must demonstrate that they are capable of solutions, and not just sullenness. They have to pass actual legislation. Comments
The West needs a new policy to resist, restrain and retain Russia. Comments
There are some positive ways to interpret the midterms. You just have to look for them. Comments
We painlessly inherited democracy, but by allowing political dysfunction to set in, we’ve botched it. Comments
They were a repudiation of a broken political system.
What compromises, if any, are realistic for President Obama and the new Congress to make?
In many states, voters approved ballot measures that were directly at odds with the positions of many Republican candidates who won.
No. It’s an epidemic of overdiagnosis.
In Washington State, voters approved a ballot measure that tries to limit mass killings. Comments
Is not fearing that the police will kill your child for no reason a privilege or a right?
Mistakes by East German officials and rising opposition by large numbers of everyday citizens led to the opening. Comments
Voters did not hear much about criminal-justice reform during the midterm election, but several ballot propositions passed across the country to reform the system.
What’s missed in debates over the impact of liberal and conservative spending on congressional campaigns.
Brooks and Collins on the full extent of the Election Day devastation of Democrats, including some who weren’t on the ballot.
Only two of 17 states in an Urban Institute study will see premium increases of more than 5 percent.
More than a third of people voting for a Republican House candidate said they were unhappy or even angry at the Republican leaders in Congress.
Miranda July’s app aims to shake up your life, or at least some of your conversations. Does it deliver?
The news is better in America and Africa. But the disease has a way of bouncing back.
Backing Palestine’s accession to the I.C.C. would deter war crimes on both sides.
The midterms have one simple message for the European chancelleries: Plan for America’s next president. Comments
In November 1864, Confederate agents came dangerously close to setting fire to Manhattan.
This administration has been afflicted almost from the start with the inability to decide just whom it is trying to appeal to. Comments
The Oslo plan for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is finished. We need a new model. Comments
It’s not important that everyone cook, but it is important that everyone eat well — and the best way to do that now is to buy good food and cook it. Comments
It’s harder for black people to get concealed handgun licenses, suggesting that voter ID laws may disenfranchise minorities. Comments
Republican criticism of Obama’s foreign policy finds unexpected echoes among Turkey’s public. Comments
President Obama may be a flawed politician, but he has guided the nation through troubled waters. Black voters should resist alienation. Comments
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