An op-ed by columnist Michael Gerson in the July 17 edition of The Washington Post: "The politics of polarization" The writer comments that the United States is becoming "a nation with the responsibilities of a superpower and the politics of a banana republic"
An op-ed by Fareed Zakaria in the July 19 issue of the Washington Post: "What voters are really choosing in November" The author says that America is falling behind fast in the crucial investment of human and physical capital.
In the same issue, an op-ed by Ruth Marcus, on a long-festering tension in Israeli society: "How Israel saps its strength"