Stop Calling It the Trump Era
The compulsion to zero in on the president keeps us from understanding the era fully, and from glimpsing what it might become.
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The compulsion to zero in on the president keeps us from understanding the era fully, and from glimpsing what it might become.
The Oversight Committee released files turned over by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, including a copy of a sexually suggestive note apparently si...
Republicans said the maneuver to change the Senate’s rules, the latest step that would weaken the filibuster, was necessary to overcome Demo...
Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in...
The dust-up, at a members-only club in Georgetown, was not the first time Scott Bessent has shown a hot temper.
Donald Trump’s signature has evolved over the years, but when signing just his first name, he often includes the same flourish at the end.
The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.
President Trump said that offenses that happen at home should not undermine his record of crime reduction in Washington.
Kenneth R. Weinstein, who will review complaints about CBS News, was head of the right-leaning Hudson Institute, a think tank, and has no ex...
A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.
At least 11 defendants stayed in jail cells longer than the law allows, in what former prosecutors and criminal lawyers see as a violation o...
Tech companies are displaying A.I., lasers and more as they compete for a piece of President Trump’s ambitious plan for a missile defense sh...
Representative Sara Jacobs, Democrat of California, said her experience planning for a future pregnancy inspired her to write a bill to expa...
The president had said on social media that Chicago was “about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” drawing a fierce rebuke f...
Mr. Moore said in a TV interview that he “is not running for president.” The first-term governor, who has traded barbs with President Trump,...
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is p...
We do not kill those merely suspected of being criminals from the air.
The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference onl...
A new crop of candidates has turned away from the aspirational “American dream” message of campaigns past and is leaning into how difficult...
Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution, has embarked on a stran...
The government said on Sunday that South Korea would send a charter plane to the United States to retrieve hundreds of workers detained in a...
Democrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy.
On national security, spending and oversight, the president continues to undercut the legislative branch, and Republicans in charge have don...
The raid at a Georgia plant being built with heavy investment from South Korea reveals strain as a rush to expand manufacturing in the Unite...
President Trump’s renaming of the Defense Department comes amid his overt campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize.
The immigration crackdown is expected to last several weeks, sources with knowledge of the operation said.
On Sept. 24, The Times will host leaders, policymakers and executives in frank discussions about a consequential year in the fight against c...
The persistent rejections suggest that the grand jurors may have had enough of prosecutors seeking harsh charges in a highly politicized env...
The Trump administration failed to tell lawmakers about a 2019 SEAL Team 6 incursion into North Korean territory that went awry.
After a bad employment report in August, President Trump fired the official in charge of the numbers. This month’s data was just as disappoi...
Two Democrats on the House China committee noted the use of A.I. by Chinese companies as a weapon in information warfare.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced questions after a tumultuous few weeks.
The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.
Leaders on the continent are trying to show the U.S. president that they are serious about laying the groundwork to end the war — and that P...
In a new book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks for faith in the Supreme Court but reveals very little.
The first lady has shown herself to be captivated by the wonders and dangers and opportunities of modern technologies.
Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court h...
Republicans and Democrats agree they will need a temporary measure to fund the government past Sept. 30, but have yet to come to terms on wh...
He’s exploiting a diabolical problem in our legal system to expand presidential power.
The city is challenging the federal government’s authority to send troops into the city for what the president has called a “public safety e...
He’s exploiting a diabolical problem in our legal system to expand presidential power.
The Republican rift over whether to demand greater transparency in the case has once again highlighted a gender divide in the male-dominated...
It does seem that our entire democracy may be riding on whether the party can find the right leader.
Stephen Miran, who served as one of the president’s top economic advisers, will have to reconcile his past criticism of the central bank wit...
Information collected during the yearslong Salt Typhoon attack could allow Beijing’s intelligence services to track targets from the United...
More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.