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What Washington Gets Wrong About Religion, According to 14 Religious Leaders and Experts

By James Martin, SJ, Simran Jeet Singh, Benjamin E. Park, Eboo Patel, Rev. Jennifer Butler, Ani Zonneveld, Rachel Laser, Russell Moore, Vineet Chander, Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Rev. William H. Lamar IV, Cary Brief, Amos Yong and Ebad Rahman

What will be the main long-term impact of the Trump-Xi summit? Predictions from 11 foreign policy experts.

By Perry Link, Patricia M. Kim, Uzra Zeya, Brian Tronic, Ivo Daalder, Chris McGuire, Kishore Mahbubani, Jacob Stokes, Anita Kellogg, Henrietta Levin and Zack Cooper
16 Washington Post veterans on what they would change about D.C. journalism.

By Marc Fisher, Joe Stephens, Kate Cohen, John F. Harris, Helena Andrews-Dyer, Alyssa Rosenberg, Jonathan Capehart, Jose A. Del Real, Aaron Wiener, Krissah Thompson, Richard Just, Margaret Sullivan, Dana Milbank, Sally Quinn, DeNeen L. Brown and Tom Sietsema
Ten retiring senators and representatives: Here’s what would surprise Americans about Congress.

By Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rep. Vern Buchanan, Rep. Dan Newhouse, Rep. Sam Graves, Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García, Sen. Gary Peters, Rep. Troy E. Nehls, Rep. Neal P. Dunn, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Sen. Dick Durbin
Where should Washington look for moral authority in 2026?

By Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Robin Givhan, Danielle Allen, Eboo Patel, Russell Moore, Vineet Chander, Kim Daniels, Kate Cohen, Keith Ellison, Bill McKibben, Sarah Yager, Imam Khalid Latif, Hilary Braseth, Rabbi David Wolpe, Matt Shumer and Cecilia Muñoz
Eight bipartisan ideas that Congress could act on this session

By Lauren Leader, Mary Guenther, Maya MacGuineas, Heather Boushey, Josh Freed, Darrell M. West, Matthew P. Funaiole and Margaret Spellings
What Washington doesn’t get about young Americans — according to 22 college students and recent grads.

By Emma Rowland, Samuel Valencia, Jade Tran, Madelyn Rowley, Ashton Pack, Monte E. White, Griffin Uribe Brown, Yasmeen Khan, Jack Salaki, Cooper Gant, Erica Stavnem, Sean Scholz, Denzel Massaley, Seyi Arogundade, Fox Perez, Emma Souza, Matthew Ali, Geneva Cunningham, Ethan Young, Nicole Huyer, Faith Ballard and AJ Whited
What will Iran look like in one year? Eight guesses from foreign policy experts.

By Suzanne Maloney, Ivo Daalder, Mona Yacoubian, Jamie Fly, Kori Schake, Uzra Zeya, Kevan Harris and Linda Robinson
Four changes in the day-to-day work of Congress that could meaningfully improve governance.

By Ganesh Sitaraman, Gil Ruiz, Ben Olinsky and Chris Wingate
Are the Iran strikes a good idea?

By Ivo Daalder, Asher Fredman, Mona Yacoubian, Kori Schake, Rosa Brooks, Farah Pandith, Damian Murphy and Suzanne Maloney
Describe Trump’s State of the Union speech in one word

By Anne-Marie Slaughter, Brittany Martinez, Corey A. DeAngelis, Jeff Nussbaum and David Litt
How should President Trump open his State of the Union? Nine (realistic and not-so-realistic) ideas.

By David Litt, Rep. Young Kim (R-CA), Tanzina Vega, Sarah Isgur, Ian Bassin, Brittany Martinez, Jeff Nussbaum, Bill Burton and Gish Jen
What is the Republicans’ single biggest weakness heading into the midterms, and how can it be overcome?

By Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Shermichael Singleton, Nick Maddux, Daniel Kishi, Jennifer Mercieca and Douglas Heye
What is the Democrats’ single biggest weakness heading into the midterms, and how can it be overcome?

By Celinda Lake, Reed Galen, Neera Tanden, Maurice Mitchell, Alexandra Rojas and Nick Beauchamp
What do the events of this year’s World Economic Forum signal about the future of the global order?

By Kishore Mahbubani, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Paul McCarthy, Ryan Mulholland, Cole Donovan and Landry Signé
Which issue, trend or crisis will dominate global economic news in the year ahead?

By Anne-Marie Slaughter, Jason Furman, Kamissa Camara, M. Ayhan Kose, Laura Alfers, Adam S. Posen, Kari Heerman, Natalie Baker and Ian Bremmer
Name an under-the-radar idea that could pass Congress this year and have a big impact on the country.

By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Lee Drutman, Joseph Dunne, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), Maya MacGuineas, Daniel Cochrane, Nicol Turner Lee and Vivek Chilukuri
Will history vindicate or condemn the capture of Maduro?

By Jorge Castañeda, Ivo Daalder, Francisco Rodríguez, Emily Mendrala, Kori Schake, Alejandro Velasco and Juan Gonzalez
Is AI good for democracy?

By Andrew Yang, Patrick Utz, Michael Kleinman, Nicol Turner Lee, Clara Langevin, Adam Conner, Farah Pandith and Kay Firth-Butterfield
What is one Trump action that has received little to no attention yet will have long-term consequences?

By Muzaffar Chishti, Jonathan Friedman, Casey Mulligan, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Philippe Reines, Alex Vogel, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Philip Wallach, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Richard Epstein
Name a Supreme Court decision in the current term that will prove consequential.

By Devon Ombres, Erwin Chemerinsky, Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Philip Bobbitt, Ilya Shapiro, Sarah Isgur, Leah Litman and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Name and describe one state or local policy that should be tried across the country.

By Karen Bass, Saud Anwar, Cavalier Johnson, Jonathan Butcher, David Holt, Annelies Goger, Karen Freeman-Wilson, John W. Ewing Jr., Kara Gotsch, Bruce Katz, Stephen Goldsmith and Kate Garman Burns
Name one philanthropic area that should get more attention and funding. Name one that should get less.

By Peter Singer, Darla Silva, Chris Addy, Deborah Lehr, Carmen Rojas, Stacy Palmer and Phil Buchanan
What will the situation in Russia and Ukraine look like five years from now?

By Mikhail Alexseev, Ned Price, Heather Conley, Tatiana Stanovaya, Max Bergmann, Robert Benson, Wendy R. Anderson and Tim Mak
If you could change one thing about how American health care is structured, what would it be?

By Michael Osterholm, Ceci Connolly, Liz Fowler, Sherry Glied, Lanhee J. Chen and Robert Pearl
What is the single thing that has surprised you most about the second Trump administration?

By Philippe Reines, John Yoo, Gish Jen, Donald Kettl, Tanzina Vega, Cass Sunstein, Paul Dans, Kenji Yoshino, Sally Quinn and Peniel Joseph
What issue poses the biggest long-term threat to the unity of Trump’s MAGA movement?

By Matthew Continetti, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques, Jennifer Mercieca, Brittany Martinez, Reed Galen and Adrienne Elrod
What is the biggest fix the U.S. needs when it comes to housing policy?

By Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ingrid Gould Ellen, Michael Lens, Rebecca Patterson, Sonja Trauss, Rosanne Haggerty, Neera Tanden, Jenny Schuetz and Ganesh Sitaraman
What is the largest blind spot in current financial oversight?

By Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), E.J. Antoni, Thomas Hoenig, Nellie Liang, Rohan Grey, Kathryn Judge, Hilary Allen, Brad Lipton, Angela Walch and Rohit Chopra
What has been Trump’s biggest foreign policy success? What has been his biggest failure?

By Ivo Daalder, Farah Pandith, Kori Schake, Rosa Brooks, Moisés Naím, Ian Bremmer, Charlotte Clymer and Jorge Castañeda
What is one surprising, under-covered way that AI will influence American society?

By Andrew Yang, Anne Neuberger, Kay Firth-Butterfield, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Greg Allen, Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA), Janet Egan, Reid Hoffman, Miriam Vogel and Ryan Heath

What is one thing you would fix about American higher education?

By Sara Goldrick-Rab, DeNeen Brown, Randall Kennedy, Linda Darling-Hammond, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Julie Patel Liss and Margaret Spellings