Frank Rich on how racially-charged riots don't vary that much from one to another. And they won't as long as we keep allowing the same explosive situations to exist.
Fred Kaplan on how all the scenarios to defeat ISIS are bad ones and which ones are the least bad.
Jill Lepore writes of how maybe the Supreme Court has it wrong when it rules that things like abortion and a right to contraception are issues of privacy. Maybe instead they're issues of discrimination.