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Here's why Lindsey Graham is wrong. Dear Senator Romney, It isn't hard to guess what you're hearing from most of your fellow Republicans as they try to persuade you to [...]

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has only raised the stakes. If you or someone you care about are among the more than 50 million Americans suffering from pre-existing medical [...]

Republicans are already acting as if there's no next year. Nobody knows for sure who will win in November. Joe Biden holds the advantage right now, but between the vagaries [...]

President Trump and his party are using a playbook that aims to alarm people about crime in their backyards. It didn't work in 2018, but both parties think it could [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn and Fenit Nirappil WASHINGTON - At the end of every tour of his Washington D.C.-based brewery, Thor Cheston has a question for his guests. 'How many of [...]

As residents see fires and looting, some worry that local Democratic leaders are failing to keep control of the situation. John Geraghty, a 41-year-old worker in a tractor factory, has [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin For Print Use Only. It is a favorite game in politics to take the most extreme member of the other party and then paint the entire party [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman For Print Use Only. Should President Donald Trump lose in November, the Joe Biden presidency will be the target of some kind of angry far-right movement consumed [...]

And consider, what will it take for the Republican Party to begin to heal itself? If Donald Trump stages another come-from-behind victory in November -- helped, in all likelihood, by [...]

Their party's a lost cause. America isn't. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . Should you have any [...]

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, [...]

Byline: John Wagner House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., acknowledged concerns Friday that President Donald Trump's sagging popularity could possibly hurt Republican chances in races key to maintaining the party's [...]

Byline: John Wagner WASHINGTON - Sen. Mitt Romney urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to stop promoting a baseless conspiracy theory about a woman's death in 2001, standing apart from [...]

Byline: Colby Itkowitz Republicans held a congressional seat in rural Wisconsin and aimed to seize a Democratic one in suburban California as voters cast ballots in special elections Tuesday amid [...]

Byline: David Weigel Voters in northwest Wisconsin and California's high desert were electing new members of Congress on Tuesday, with Republicans favored to win both races - even though Democrats [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn Confronted with armed protesters at the state capitol and a lawsuit threat from GOP lawmakers over her executive orders, Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was unmoved, deciding [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - The largest Republican super PAC focused on House races has reserved $43 million in advertising this fall, sketching out the GOP's path for retaking the [...]

Byline: Stuart Stevens For Print Use Only. Don't just blame President Donald Trump. Blame me - and all the other Republicans who aided and abetted and, yes, benefited from protecting [...]

Fiscal hypocrisy is his biggest advantage. It may have slipped by you, but last week Donald Trump suggested that he may be about to give U.S. farmers -- who have [...]

The State of the House of Representatives Moving Forward Nearly a week after Election Day, Democrats across the country were celebrating as the major television networks declared Joe Biden the [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman 'At last, I believe we are on the 5-yard-line,' said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday morning. As of this writing, congressional leaders have not released the [...]

Byline: Daniel W. Drezner What color is the sky in GOP land? I ask because Sunday night, when residents of the Eastern Seaboard were enjoying the last few hours of [...]

Republicans aren't Scrooges -- they're much worse. By Trump-era standards, Ebenezer Scrooge was a nice guy. It's common, especially around this time of year, to describe conservative politicians who cut [...]

Not in the Cold War, not during Vietnam, not during Watergate did I ever fear more for my country. If America's worst enemies had spent years designing a plan to [...]

He fled Ukraine at age 3 and became a soldier, scholar and official at the White House. That's where, he told impeachment investigators, he witnessed alarming behavior by President Trump. [...]

A state court found that North Carolina's congressional districts were drawn with gerrymanders designed to benefit Republicans that violate the State Constitution. A North Carolina state court effectively threw out [...]

EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Dave Levitt became a Republican after getting his M.B.A. in 1990. Like him, Republicans valued fiscal conservatism, balanced budgets and free trade, ''all the things [...]

Thanks to Trump's deepening dependence on ''alternative facts,'' the assertion of reality is now a viable campaign strategy for 2020 Democrats. It's that time of the campaign season when some [...]

The G.O.P. will not be able to postpone a reckoning on Donald Trump's presidency for much longer. In the summer of 1950, outraged by Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist inquisition, Margaret Chase [...]

The Republican speaker of the Texas House was recorded saying President Trump is ''killing us'' in suburban districts. On Thursday, the president came to Dallas for a rally. AUSTIN, Texas [...]

President Trump and his allies seized on debate moments over taxes, health care and economic inequality to portray the Democratic candidates as tax-and-spend liberals. WASHINGTON -- President Trump and his [...]

Republicans who cast the impeachment inquiry as a yet another partisan character assassination may find it difficult to rally the same kind of unified support that helped Brett Kavanaugh. WASHINGTON [...]

Lead with values. Promote common-sense policies. And don't give up on rural voters. In a special election on Sept. 10, my campaign came an inch short of flipping a deep [...]

The 1998 trial damaged Democrats more than Republicans. Conventional wisdom holds that the Republican Party suffered a big political penalty for impeaching Bill Clinton in 1998. But that's not quite [...]

Republicans have come to accept what they once professed to abhor. The terrains of acceptability and respectability have shifted under the American conservative. That which was once forbidden is now [...]

The reddest faith in America is also the one most skeptical of Donald Trump. In order to understand the Republican Party today, you have to understand religion. Donald Trump may [...]

His mental deficiencies may save American democracy. The surprising thing about the constitutional crisis we're now facing is that it took so long to happen. It was obvious from early [...]

Will they finally admit what the G.O.P. has become? It's hard to believe that barely three weeks have passed since Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, issued [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump threw Middle East policy into turmoil on Monday with a series of conflicting signals after his vow to withdraw American forces from the region touched off [...]

See the senators shilly-shally. Down with Republican wimps. You know the ones. They're trying to avoid taking on Donald Trump while looking sort of sad about the way our president [...]

There's an approach that avoids both a ''civil war'' and Trump's guaranteed re-election. I'm going to discuss impeachment today, but first I want to talk about the National Symphony Orchestra's [...]