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A recent study shows Americans are spending notably more time at home, a trend that started long before the pandemic. It turns out we aren’t just bowling alone — we’re [...]

Amid signs of dysfunction and disarray, Chief Justice John Roberts reasserted his authority, while the influence of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito waned. Former President Donald J. Trump had [...]

We reached nearly 2,000 people who participated in previous Times/Siena polls to see if any had changed their minds. It’s one of the biggest questions in the wake of Donald [...]

In polls of swing state voters, 14 percent of those who said they voted for President Biden in 2020 said they weren’t backing him now. Frederick Westbrook, a retired Las [...]

How will today’s budget match up with reality? We took a look at 31 recent presidential budget projections and found nearly every one was way off. It’s not just that [...]

A comparison with Portugal’s approach to decriminalization shows why many liberal cities have struggled to match its success. San Francisco is in the middle of a drug crisis. Overdose deaths [...]

If an expansion of the child tax credit passed, here’s what would change and who would benefit. At a time when congressional Democrats and Republicans seem unable to agree on [...]

About a quarter of Black babies and toddlers in rental households face the threat of eviction in a typical year, a new study says, and all children are disproportionately at [...]

Democrats appear resilient in the battleground states despite a nationwide loss of nonwhite support. New issues may be one reason. The early polls https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-election-trump-vs-biden-7383.html Donald J. Trump and President Biden [...]

Readers offered theories of their own on a big budget mystery. Medicare may just be the budget buster that wasn’t. Somehow, after decades of nonstop growth, its spending per person [...]

G.O.P. leaders are tailoring their government funding legislation to far-right lawmakers who are insisting on deep cuts, but who hardly ever vote for spending bills. That’s raising the chances of [...]

Chief Justice Roberts delivered both landmark victories for the right and significant rulings in which he forged alliances with the liberal justices. The Supreme Court ended its term this week [...]

The House legislation to suspend the nation’s borrowing limit and reduce spending is only part of the full compromise reached by the White House and House Republican leaders. A New [...]

The House passed https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/31/us/debt-ceiling-biden-mccarthy that will suspend the nation’s borrowing limit and reduce the federal deficit, the result of lengthy negotiations between House Republicans and the White House. But the [...]

In the early, panicked days of the pandemic, the United States government did something that was previously unimaginable. It transformed itself, within weeks, into something akin to a European-style welfare [...]

President Biden’s budget https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/09/us/biden-budget-tax-news, with splashy policy proposals and many, many pages of detailed tables of dollars to be spent. Workers in every corner of the federal government toiled to [...]

Several conservative lawmakers say House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has promised a House vote on a balanced federal budget. That’s a harder task than it sounds, given the size of the [...]