Everything we publish, newest first. Browse by year for the Weekly Correspondents’ Forum, or by subject: business, the economy, health care, politics, society, and world affairs. Each piece runs under the date it was written and is left as written. If a prediction missed, the miss stays on the page.

Weekly Correspondents’ Forum

Each session we put a single question to our correspondents and publish their answers in full. The question is the same for everyone. The answers rarely are. Read them side by side: the disagreement between a port logistics manager in Jacksonville and an engineer in Knoxville is often more useful than the consensus of a panel.

Subject categories

• Business: Commentary on the firms, owners, and regulators that decide what gets built, and who carries the risk when it fails.
• Economy: Commentary on growth, debt, prices, and the distance between the official figures and the household budget.
• Health Care: Commentary on cost, access, and who actually pays.
• Politics: Commentary on power, elections, and the institutions that are supposed to answer to the public.
• Society: Commentary on the habits, institutions, and arguments that hold communities together or pull them apart.
• World Affairs: Commentary on alliances, trade, and conflict, and what they cost the people who live with the results.