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Donald Trump is too grave a threat to America. Democrats need a nominee who can unite the country and articulate a compelling vision for it.

A debate before the debate.

When the two candidates square off, we can expect disorientation, dizziness and much else.

To win on Thursday, Biden will have to override his instincts and defy the constraints and conventions of presidential debates.

The left’s narcissism of small differences hands mainstream positions to Republicans.

We take a look at J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Doug Burgum, Tim Scott, Elise Stefanik and more possible Republican running mates.

It’s impossible to see the court’s decision upholding a law disarming domestic abusers as anything but an exercise in institutional self-preservation.

Both parties are changing shape. What should they do about it?

Universities that cataloged election lies and disinformation are being targeted with the same tactics they sought to uncover.

The breathless catastrophizing of Trump and his allies is not an expression of ignorance as much as it is a statement of intent.

Thursday’s debate is time to preach to the choir.

Going head-to-head with the former president is like juggling nonsense, blather and bluster.

I’ve studied voter reaction and opinions about every presidential debate since 1992. This is what to do and not to do.

He has the lowest level of corporate support in the history of the Republican Party.

Her political future will be decided in Tuesday’s Republican congressional primary. Is there a limit to MAGA antics?

It is looking more and more like a project to universalize the un-universalizable.

The candidates have no shortage of flaws.

The former president is no more prepared for a second term than he was for a first. He may even be less prepared.

Democrats should rally around a bill to overhaul the 1873 anti-vice law.

Rubio would offer Latinos the chance to vote for one of their own to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

The U.S. bombings that ended World War II didn’t mark the close of atomic warfare. They were just the beginning.

They need to stop accepting short-term victories.

It shouldn’t take so long for the justices to consider an outlandish claim.

What does the rise of partisan sectarians portend for the rest of us?

It’s not as if anybody needs a trial to form an opinion about the events of that day.

A Christian nationalist upset causes Republican angst.

Jane Coaston interviews the new nominee, Chase Oliver, about his beliefs.

Everything Donald Trump knows about picking a running mate in 2024 he learned while hosting “The Apprentice.”

Jennifer Harris is the intellectual force driving the administration’s approach to trade and economic policies.

Listening to the stories of voters on their thresholds, we felt their need to trust.

New challenges to the Supreme Court’s image of probity and detachment seem to keep coming.

A look at the senator’s defense of Donald Trump’s conduct after the 2020 election.

Hollywood shouldn’t pre-emptively capitulate to the MAGA movement.

There cannot be compromise on the question of American democracy.

In Cimarron County, Okla., the voters and the community have a lot more going on than just adherence to Trump.

His remarks should not have been controversial.

In a long conversation, the first-term senator from Ohio talks about Trump, populism, the 2020 election, Ukraine and the Republican V.P. slot.

The city was the best-case scenario for congestion pricing. What does it mean that the plan was shelved?

It was never going to be easy to get voters to abandon their hero.

The MAGA movement tears another state Republican Party apart.

Here’s looking at you, Hunter.

Nevadans’ unhappiness with the economy is driving Trump’s support in the state.

For months now, he has been spinning his tale of tyranny and martyrdom, styling himself as the victim of an administration that plays dirty.

Why the MAGA movement loves Mafiosi.

This is what happens when you say it’s the legal system that’s indefensible.

A congestion pricing plan years in the making was suddenly postponed, threatening mass transit and ensuring continued traffic nightmares.

A “polluters must pay” law would compensate the state for damages and the costs of preparing for future impacts from warming weather.

Norms on attendance have changed, but it’s about more than Covid-era school closings.

Trump sort of photosynthesizes any and all attention to grow bigger and stronger. What’s Biden to do?

It’s crazy to think Donald Trump wants to be a felon.

The implications for politics reach well beyond deep fakes.

Donald Trump’s second term would be even more corrupt and vindictive than his first.

Is it still true that there’s no such thing as bad publicity?

The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.

Two legal experts weigh in.

The case against him is strong.

The country’s story of liberation has been both a symbol of hope and a burden. Now it’s time for reality.

Times Opinion writers reflect on an extraordinary development in American political history.

Some people really believe the fraud claims, and people don’t but make it sound as if they did. Both seem likely to be a part of the Trump future.

The consequences for America’s political future are enormous — and a little unpredictable.

Can liberal justices reclaim judicial restraint?

Voters recognize that it’s a misguided attempt to settle the 2024 election.

Currently, the fish are blocked from their most important spawning tributary.

Does it matter that the courtroom sketch artists drawing his trial are all women?

Her craziest-clown-at-the-carnival act seems to have descended into a sad clown party of one.

Alex Jones, Steve Bannon and the left-to-right pipeline.

Displaying an upside-down American flag shouldn’t have happened.

Once you start talk about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country,” what comes next?

Americans have traded their faith in the American dream for pretty much everybody else’s sour, populist mood.

Trump has changed everything and nothing.

It is comforting to think that the red meat is for someone else.

He could convert the United States from a dominant economic and military power into something he purports to abhor — a global loser.

Justice Alito and Senator Menendez have one thing in common.

As provocative as the testimony has been, this case may turn on something a great deal more mundane.

The Grand Canyon State is up for grabs — and so is its political future.

The liberal arts are fading just when we need them most.

A terrible man is in the cross hairs of American justice, but immorality alone doesn’t make him a criminal.

It’s not the poll numbers that worry me, exactly. It’s the denial of what’s behind them.

The First Amendment looms large in lower court cases that may find their way to the Supreme Court.

With or without Trump, the Republican threat to democracy remains.

The dehumanization of Palestinians has become a norm.

We need to be prepared to fight the next war, not the last one.

Authoritarianism has moved from the periphery to the center, even the core, of global politics.

Oh, how quickly we forget.

Chris Gibbs has a message for Democrats who have given up on winning in rural America.

The turmoil sweeping the world shows no sign of abeyance.

Gotham’s 400th birthday calls for a celebration worthy of the great metropolis it is.

He is focused on firming up his Democratic base, even though the election will come down to centrist swing voters in battleground states.

His corruption is on display once again.

A trial that is a meditation on Trump’s amorality.