Word: argument
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...Terror has been a monumental strategic mistake. But there was little sympathy for figuring out an intelligent way to disengage from Iraq and refocus attention on the broader conflict. My esteemed colleague William Kristol, whose latest column appears on the next page, easily won the crowd with his argument favoring Bush's New Way Forward in Iraq, though not without a few bumps. Kristol, normally an impeccable debater, seemed boggled by this simple question from the audience: "How do we know if we're winning or losing? Whose side are we on in Iraq?" Kristol detoured into the Korean...
...that have not been previously articulated on the editorial page. For example, if we have recently published a staff editorial on a particular topic, we are more inclined to publish an op-ed arguing the opposite point of view. In addition to originality, we also look for a strong argument, timeliness, clarity of writing, and cleverness...
...organizations are also welcome. Nevertheless, we require that all op-eds be signed by individuals (up to three); we will not accept for publication articles that have been authored by an organization as a whole or pieces written under pseudonym. Op-eds are meant to examine a particular argument, not make a pitch for a particular upcoming event, so we reserve the right to edit references to upcoming events that a group is holding...
...also consider op-art submissions, including annotated charts, a series of drawings or photographs, or other graphics. Your submission must, however, still make an original argument or convincing point. If your op-ed is chosen for publication, an editor will contact you to start the editing process. Though you will always have final say over the content of your op-ed, we reserve the right to write headlines and choose illustrations to accompany your op-ed (normally, our writers do not write their own headlines either). Lastly, no article is ever guaranteed publication—even the articles that...
...author or authors (up to three), and not an organization nor under a pseudonym. Letters that are brief, timely, and perhaps witty or humorous, are more likely to be published. Good letters engage the subject without preamble, make their point quickly, and generally limit their scope to a single argument. If you’re interested in writing a more extended argument, consider submitting...