Opinions
The Washington Post Opinions section features opinion articles, op-eds, editorials by the Editorial Board, global opinions and letters to the editor on the issues of the day. Offerings include columns by Washington Post opinion writers, political cartoons by editorial cartoonists Ann Telnaes and Michael de Adder and podcasts by Jonathan Capehart.
An averted $1.1 billion budget cut for D.C. is just a symptom of the deeper challenge.
Senate Democrats reluctantly joined Republicans to narrowly avert a government shutdown.
Plus: Public broadcasting budget cuts. Peace in Gaza and Ukraine.
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced the removal of the Black Lives Matter art. Readers react.
Readers describe their first-hand experience with Medicaid and discuss proposed changes to the program.
Matt Davies cartoon on Environmental Protection Agency deregulation.
Nick Anderson cartoon on Elon Musk and Tesla.
You think you’ve heard all you need to about daylight saving time, but we promise you haven’t heard it quite like this. Most people hate changing the clocks back and forth each fall and spring, but they can’t seem to agree on how we could do it better. In this episode, Drew Goins, Molly Roberts and David Von Drehle take us on a journey of DST through history and around the world. They also pitch some wild ideas for how we can better optimize the sunlight, which is what we're guessing everybody really wants.
Trump’s focus on “weaponization” at the Justice Department and FBI risks ignoring foreign threats.
Does a streaming service benefit from making fun of paperboys and kicking a down-and-out industry?
There is a danger that Syria might become a failed state. The U.S. can help.
Here are this week's Free for All letters.
We spend all our time together, true, but I am not dependent. I swear.
Trump eases the fears of jittery Americans by turning the White House driveway into a Tesla showroom.
NPR and PBS have outlived whatever usefulness they might have had. Fiscal hawks, take note.
Argentina’s recession under Milei might be Trump’s inspiration.
The way the White House has attacked research funding and free speech recalls China’s Cultural Revolution.
During Trump’s first term, the U.S. hemorrhaged prestige. His second term might be worse.
The Russian leader has no interest in making concessions.
Who could have guessed this would happen?
Michael Ramirez cartoon on the cost of tariffs.
Plus: DOGE’s dubious savings. The measles vaccine.
We need more training programs for young scientists, not fewer.
Israel and the U.S. have rejected it, but the proposal is now the only realistic option on the table.
Post Opinions asked readers how they wanted Democrats to vote on the continuing resolution.
Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration.
Looking back on optimism and public service at a moment when each seems to be in short supply.
The U.S. can’t afford another high-ranking health official who is opposed to vaccines.
Cuts to the IRS will backfire by giving tax evaders a free pass.
What I learned — and didn’t learn — from my Hasidic education
Donald Trump wants to deport a legal resident for his views. Who else will be punished for exercising free speech?
Not even Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent can convincingly defend the president’s trade policy.
Plus: The pro-DEI Enola Gay. Salamanders. An argument for impoundment.
As an outbreak brews, readers admonish attempts to discredit the measles vaccine.
Mel Gibson should have a path to restore his gun rights. An obscure federal law shows how to do it.
Trump’s DEI purge does not merely eliminate programs or words. It erases people — our American history.
The administration’s explanations are a cover: Trump is using his power to shield allies and punish opponents.
The spotted salamander has been heralding the season’s arrival for millions of years.
By declining to offer clarity on qualified immunity, the Supreme Court votes to let injustice persist.
The Forrestal Building’s form is impeding its function as home of the Energy Department.
Impoundment is a good idea. The way Trump and Democrats are waging war over it is not.
Elon Musk is projecting the kind of adolescent masculinity the tech world appreciates.
As a boy, David Edmonston was the source of today’s measles vaccine. Now he regrets vaccine doubts.
Trump seems to envision a new balance of power with three poles: the United States, Russia and China.
As President Trump stays bullish on tariffs, sending markets spiraling and personal anxieties soaring, the Republican-led Congress is trying to pass a budget. Do Democrats have any levers to pull, or should they just let Republicans own whatever happens next? Dana Milbank, Heather Long and James Hohmann talk through the negotiations in Washington this week and how Trump’s unclear messaging could hurt business.
Plus: Trump’s disappearing statistics and invisible Russia strategy.
Readers respond to local issues such as the Nationals’ agreement with MASN, a rejected state park and more.
It is in the best interests of Donald Trump and Mark Carney to lower the temperature.
Matt Davies cartoon on President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Jimmy Margulies cartoon on potential Medicaid cuts in the budget bill.
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