Behind Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling, a Clash Over the Reality of Racism
The Supreme Court ruling said there must be proof that a racial group was “intentionally” disadvantaged. The dissent called it “well-nigh im...
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The Supreme Court ruling said there must be proof that a racial group was “intentionally” disadvantaged. The dissent called it “well-nigh im...
The growing unease over artificial intelligence is something elements of the left and the right can agree on in a polarized age.
Some wish Kamala Harris had decided to run for governor in California, where Democrats are struggling to break through, rather than weigh an...
A Brooklyn general store that sells Taiwanese imports was pummeled by tariffs. A rebate would help, but the confusion still lingers.
The election on Tuesday will test the influence of President Trump, who endorsed challengers to Republican state senators who scuttled his p...
On the first day of early voting, some glimpses of voter bewilderment came into focus, part of a dizzying scramble playing out days after a...
A federal appeals court temporarily halted a Food and Drug Administration regulation that has greatly expanded access to the abortion pill m...
President Trump plans to build a park along the Potomac River featuring life-size statues of 250 Americans.
The Democrats’ fundamental condition is a late-Trumpian stasis.
The real king delivers a needed royal lesson on democracy.
Plans for the project include formal gardens, reflecting pools and plazas alongside the statues of 250 notable Americans, according to docum...
Three Republican women who had a hand in forcing the resignations of lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct said they are out to name and sh...
Republican-led legislatures in Tennessee and Alabama will reconvene in the coming days. Unlike in Tennessee, however, a new map in Alabama w...
In letters to the House and Senate, the president asserted that the hostilities had “terminated,” in an apparent attempt to avoid having to...
Republican commentators have argued, incorrectly, that political violence is largely a left-wing problem. Liberals have countered by citing...
Security questions linger nearly a week after a gunman stormed a security checkpoint at the annual dinner.
Months into the operation and with midterms looming, some lawmakers are calling for Congress to restrain the president’s war power or set te...
President Trump said that the European Union was not upholding its part of a trade agreement and that he would increase tariffs next week.
Our politics reporter Nick Corasaniti explains how Florida redrew its congressional district maps to create four more Republican-leaning Hou...
Nonprofit groups have applauded an investigation on trade in goods made with forced labor but say that the Trump administration should go fu...
Oregon’s Democratic governor is likely to win re-election, but how voters pick from the ideological array of Republicans challenging her cou...
The Trump administration is turning diplomacy into an asset to be leveraged.
Republicans sliced Nashville into three G.O.P.-leaning congressional districts in 2022. After the Supreme Court decision on voting rights, M...
While the defense industry has announced plans to make more munitions, much of that expanded production will not quickly kick in.
In naming only an interim successor as acting attorney general, President Trump has established even greater incentives to execute his most...
Royal watchers in Britain called the visit of King Charles III to America a master class in understated criticism.
Voters who watched Gov. Janet Mills struggle to gain traction in the Democratic Senate primary said they were unsurprised — and in many case...
Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and minority leader, considered the Maine governor his top recruit for winning the majority. Cr...
The defense secretary testified on the eve of the 60-day mark of the war, a major statutory deadline for the president to withdraw forces or...
Republicans were forced to use a special maneuver to steer around opposition in their own party and speed the measure to the floor, relying...
Black Democrats in the South already face steep challenges when seeking political office. But the Supreme Court’s ruling could be felt for a...
Jerome H. Powell will remain a governor at the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends, in a bid to guard against a further incursion b...
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which the president vows to top in Washington, offers a lesson in the complicated history of monuments.
The measure will allow the G.O.P. to begin working on a filibuster-proof bill to fund ICE and C.B.P., part of their plan to reopen the long-...
House Republicans toiled to pass major measures as lawmakers scramble to fund homeland security, extend spy powers and deliver a farm bill.
Republicans put down a right-wing revolt to push the measure through the House, but it faces changes in the Senate that could delay its fina...
President Trump wants Americans going into space to be a part of his legacy, even as he has proposed cutting NASA’s education, research and...
During his first public appearance on Capitol Hill since the war began, the defense secretary lashed out at lawmakers in both parties who ha...
Their appearance seemed at odds with the chief justice’s oft-stated message that the court he leads avoids even the appearance of political...
This is a man who rarely travels beyond the confines of the White House compound or Mar-a-Lago.
Steven Rattner argues that Trump’s effort to bail out the ailing carrier makes no sense.
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to explain whether it intends to contest President Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against th...
The Trump administration wants to terminate humanitarian protections known as Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of migran...
King Charles III presented President Trump with a golden bell. “Should you ever need to get hold of us,” the king said, “well, just give us...
The White House has intensified pressure on House leadership to expedite funding approval for the Department of Homeland Security, marking a...
A prestigious state dinner hosted by the Trump administration brought together an exclusive gathering featuring members of the British royal...
The White House hosted an elegant state dinner celebrating the visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla of Britain. The sophisticated men...
King Charles III employed diplomatic subtlety to address contentious remarks directed at Britain and NATO from the American administration....
As Democrats position themselves for potential congressional gains in the upcoming midterms, party leaders are advancing an ambitious econom...
The Kennedy Center is mounting a comprehensive campaign to justify its substantial infrastructure overhaul, presenting evidence in legal pro...