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They were young lawyers, rising political stars and social acquaintances in the most exclusive quarters of San Francisco civic life. But around 2000, Kamala Harris placed a phone call to [...]

Bari Weiss has long been blessed with two superpowers, those close to her say: She knows how to make useful enemies, and she knows how to make useful friends. As [...]

One evening in May, the most-watched man in late-night television these days staked out a curious if characteristic position: A 38-year-old teacher who allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old student, [...]

Susie Wiles helped Ron DeSantis become governor of Florida, but he turned against her and banished her from his orbit. Donald Trump was all too happy to bring her in [...]

There is a madcap performance within the Jenna Bush Hager morning routine. Coffee sloshes from her cup, occasionally threatening her ''Today'' show uniform. Lipstick tints a tooth or two until [...]

Election Day came to a close with no clear winner, but it affirmed the persistence of deep national divisions. From the start of his 2020 campaign, Joseph R. Biden Jr. [...]

President Trump's promises to evangelicals on judges were a key part of shoring up support in 2016. Some Biden backers want to see him run on the courts this time, [...]

The president's true believers saw a message to appreciate. Many others saw something more alarming. If another leader of another nation stood in another simmering capital and instructed police and [...]

But the 16th president is showing up quite a bit in the 2020 race. He remains uncommitted. Abraham Lincoln may have died 155 years ago, but everyone still wants his [...]

Participating in a healthy democracy isn't supposed to be at odds with staying healthy. Today it is. These are the instructions now, simple and bleak: Stay home if you can. [...]

He has such a thorough hold on the party now that any collapse would probably require a political U-turn as sharp as the one that precipitated his rise. The state [...]

The former vice president had the Super Tuesday of his dreams, winning in places he hasn't even set foot in recently. The scene, on its face, might not have been [...]

The democratic socialist found himself in the center -- of the stage and the squabbling. Bernie Sanders was pointing -- to the left, to the right, at himself, at the [...]

McCALLA, Ala. -- The evening of April 29 passed like many others for Ben Rawls, a fire lieutenant in Tuscaloosa: settled in the rocking chair on his porch, amid empty [...]

John Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor whose low-key brand of moderate politics made him popular in his home state but limited his appeal in a Democratic primary filled with urgent [...]

SUGAR LAND, Tex. -- Nearly 700 miles from the El Paso Walmart where the suspect in the killing of 22 people on Saturday denounced a ''Hispanic invasion,'' Rish Oberoi, a [...]

It took 30 minutes or so for Senator Elizabeth Warren to wind toward well-worn territory for her: a riff on the evils of insurance companies. ''It's not working for families,'' [...]

The would-be 2020 Democratic contenders could not be clearer: They are not running for president.O.K., they are not actively running for president. Not currently, not at this very moment -- [...]

AKRON, Ohio -- Richard Cordray never seems quite sure how to stand. He tilts to the left like a Leaning Tower of Bureaucrat, arms sagging, as he waits for his [...]

Welcome to T he Tip Sheet , a daily political analysis of the 2 018 elections , based on interviews with Republican and Democratic officials, pollsters, strategists and v oters. [...]

Welcome to T he Tip Sheet , a daily political analysis of the 2 018 elections , based on interviews with Republican and Democratic officials, pollsters, strategists and v oters [...]

Welcome to T he Tip Sheet , a daily political analysis of the 2 018 elections , based on interviews with Republican and Democratic officials, pollsters, strategists and v oters [...]

Can Republicans keep the House? Will Democrats swipe the Senate? Which state is being Made Great Again with the next presidential visit? It's Monday, Oct. 22, Trump and Cruz are [...]

WASHINGTON -- In 2016, Michelle Obama's words became the Democrats' defining creed to counter Donald J. Trump's battering ram of a presidential campaign: ''When they go low, we go high.'' [...]

CONWAY, Pa. -- The rules are workable enough in the right hands, in the right corner of a right-leaning region of a state like this one. Avoid the jacket-and-tie look, [...]

Even then, no one was quite sure what to make of Cynthia Nixon. It was 2009, nearly a decade before her campaign for governor of New York, and Ms. Nixon [...]

It was a night of rebellion among Democrats and loyalty for Republicans: Liberal activists upended the Democratic establishment in multiple primary races on Tuesday, while Republican voters backed candidates anointed [...]

VERONA, N.J. -- A former Navy pilot, a veteran White House national security adviser and a conservative pro-gun state senator won Democratic nominations on Tuesday to represent battleground congressional districts [...]

The question went out late one night on a private message chain of insurgent female candidates for Congress: Do you really attack a fellow Democrat? ''I feel like I've been [...]

It was Staten Island reduced to an overstuffed hotel ballroom: a cannoli spread, the thick tang of hair products and undying loyalty to a man -- well, two men -- [...]

Tuesday is decision day for contested Republican Senate primaries in Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia -- three states that broadly supported President Trump in 2016. The candidates' strategies have often [...]

AKRON, Ohio -- Richard Cordray speaks softly and carries a big stack: lime-green index cards, pressed into his shirt pocket, near enough for any sudden onset of note-taking. A former [...]

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- John Kasich had been here before. This much he pointed out, twice, before anyone had a chance to wonder why he was back. ''Wow!'' he called out, [...]

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- John Kasich had been here before. This much he pointed out, twice, before anyone had a chance to wonder why he was back. ''Wow!'' he called out, [...]

BERRYVILLE, Va. -- For more than a month now, the questions have ricocheted down this Main Street culled from a Norman Rockwell dreamscape -- past the dueling barbershops and the [...]

The distinguished gentlemen from the deep-red congressional districts swamped the aisle first -- claiming their seats some five hours early with paper scraps, jackets and small electronics -- earning televised [...]

WASHINGTON -- From the start, he was a central casting misfire -- the dark artist slicing through the capital by electric scooter, a cloak-and-dagger digger better known to former colleagues [...]

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama was president earlier this year. Really, eyewitness accounts from the period confirm this. It lasted nearly three weeks, it seems, or roughly the time elapsed since [...]

How did pop culture look from inside the White House and the halls of Congress in 2017? After a year as Times reporters covering Washington, we recently shared our analysis [...]

The defendant was elsewhere, stirring and twittering in his new city, his name rarely spoken -- just the title sufficed -- but always top of mind inside an overstuffed Manhattan [...]

WASHINGTON -- There is no annulling this marriage. For several weeks, congressional Republicans have grown more brazen, inch by careful inch, in creating a measure of distance from President Trump. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are not pretending to have missed the tweets anymore. They have abandoned well-worn phrases, like ''growing pains'' and ''sea legs,'' that sustained them through the endless [...]

WASHINGTON -- The closing argument was a curious one: Vote yes, Republican leaders told the holdouts in their conference. We promise it will never become law. After seven years of [...]

WASHINGTON -- So it's a few days before the election last November -- just a few more days, surely, before Donald J. Trump would return to his golden tower to [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, strolled before the cameras on Thursday with defeat at her back once more, projecting a well-worn swagger -- brash, defiant, more than [...]

WASHINGTON -- The lawmakers trotted from their dugouts at Nationals Park, together in a near-summer air that never quite felt swampy, united in a certainty that the game must go [...]

Not every book-writing lawmaker is running for president. But just about every wannabe president writes a book. This brings us, for better or worse, to three new entries in the [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending agreement to fund the government through September, clearing a key procedural hurdle to avert a shutdown [...]

WASHINGTON -- The message came in a distant January, at the dawn of a power transfer in Washington -- dictated, like so much would be in due time, by something [...]