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Politics & SocietyYour Take
Our readers
Robert David Sullivan's piece about media coverage of President Joe Biden's age invited a variety of responses from our readers.
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 7, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Mike Johnson watch. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Ashley McKinless
The words ‘abortion’ or ‘Trump’ weren’t mentioned—but both loomed large.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
In a year that is supposedly a test of “small-d” democracy, the voice of the voters seems fainter than ever.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Christine Lenahan
The people who can abolish the death penalty are our policymakers. And it appears Mr. Biden is comfortable leaving it in place.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Robert David Sullivan
It is not democratic, with a small “d,” for major media outlets to simply ignore concerns shared by a wide majority of the electorate.
Young migrants who crossed into the U.S. from Mexico sit on the ground in Eagle Pass, Tex. The photo also shows a Border Patrol agent checking the papers of an adult migrant, but the heads of both are out of the frame. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Pablo Christian Soenen
The transport of nonconsenting asylum seekers is a mainstay of U.S. immigration policy, and certain practices of the Department of Homeland Security have been far more destructive than bussing migrants north.