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How the party has changed and where it might be going, according to its most committed members. With the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week, we wanted to learn […]

Byline: Adam Liptak and Alicia Parlapiano Amid signs of dysfunction and disarray, Chief Justice John Roberts reasserted his authority, while the influence of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito waned. [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Nate Cohn, Ruth Igielnik and Alicia Parlapiano 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 [...]

Byline: Claire Cain Miller, Bianca Pallaro, Ruth Igielnik and Alicia Parlapiano In polls of swing state voters, 14 percent of those who said they voted for President Biden in 2020 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Nate Cohn and Alicia Parlapiano A polling deficit against Trump across six key states is mainly about younger, nonwhite and less engaged voters. Kamala Harris performs slightly better. Four [...]

A polling deficit against Trump across six key states is mainly about younger, nonwhite and less engaged voters. Kamala Harris performs slightly better. Four years ago, Joe Biden was the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Nate Cohn and Alicia Parlapiano Democrats appear resilient in the battleground states despite a nationwide loss of nonwhite support. New issues may be one reason. The early polls show [...]

Democrats appear resilient in the battleground states despite a nationwide loss of nonwhite support. New issues may be one reason. The early polls show 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 [...]

For decades, runaway Medicare spending was the story of the federal budget. Now, flat Medicare spending might be a bigger one. Something strange has been happening in this giant federal [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak and Alicia Parlapiano Chief Justice Roberts delivered both landmark victories for the right and significant rulings in which he forged alliances with the liberal justices. The Supreme [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Three million children could be affected as the largest investment in child care in U.S. history expires in September. For two years, the United States has been effectively running an [...]

Why the budget cuts in the debt ceiling deal are smaller than advertised. The House passed legislation Wednesday night that will suspend the nation's borrowing limit and reduce the federal [...]

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 [...]

The plan declines to make choices on cuts, and with large categories exempted by leadership, that may make implementing the bill even harder than passing it. House Republicans want to [...]

Medicaid and food stamps are the latest of the pandemic relief policies to expire. But some benefits, originally temporary, live on. In the early, panicked days of the pandemic, 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 [...]

For all the toil that goes into them, budgets very rarely correlate with the trajectory of federal spending, revenue or the deficit. President Biden's budget was released this week, with [...]

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 [...]

Without trimming popular programs or raising taxes, cuts to the rest of the federal budget would have to be monumental. Several conservative lawmakers say House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has promised [...]

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 [...]

Hugging grandparents. Returning to the theater, to restaurants, to playgrounds, to parties, to school. Cultivating the new hobbies discovered during lockdowns. When we asked hundreds of people what living with [...]

Policymakers are trying to bring back an expanded child allowance, but disagree on who should get it. None of the family policies the Biden administration has wanted -- an expanded [...]

Byline: Emily Badger and Alicia Parlapiano Why other rich nations have surpassed the U.S. in protecting pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. About a thousand people gathered on a bright morning on [...]

Why other rich nations have surpassed the U.S. in protecting pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. About a thousand people gathered on a bright morning on the National Mall the Saturday before [...]

In 2020, 42 states and Washington, D.C., had reported enough results for news organizations to project winners in the presidential race by about 3:00 a.m. Eastern. But eight states took [...]

The House will take up legislation intended to curb stock trades by members of Congress that can create real or perceived conflicts of interest. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday [...]

A New York Times analysis found that 97 lawmakers or their family members bought or sold financial assets over a three-year span in industries that could be affected by their [...]

At least 97 current members of Congress bought or sold stock, bonds or other financial assets that intersected with their congressional work or reported similar transactions by their spouse or [...]

The climate policies are the most ambitious passed by any Congress, but an entire set of family policies was left out. Democrats in Congress have had to scale back their [...]

The blockbuster decisions -- on abortion, guns, religion and climate -- told part of the story. But the court's abrupt rightward shift ran through its entire docket. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

Four measures could have affected shootings that killed 446 people since the Columbine massacre in 1999. If the key gun control proposals now being considered in Congress had been law [...]

The New York Times reached out on Wednesday to all 50 Republicans in the Senate to see whether they would support a pair of House-passed measures to strengthen background checks [...]

Byline: Luke Broadwater, Emily Cochrane and Alicia Parlapiano Democrats and Republicans alike stuffed nearly 5,000 earmarks totaling $9 billion into the $1.5 trillion government spending bill signed by President Biden. [...]

Democrats and Republicans alike stuffed nearly 5,000 earmarks totaling $9 billion into the $1.5 trillion government spending bill signed by President Biden. WASHINGTON -- One hundred million dollars for an [...]

Congress approved $13.6 billion in emergency spending last week related to Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion. The money includes weapons, military supplies and one of the largest infusions of U.S. [...]

Stimulus bills approved by Congress beginning in 2020 unleashed the largest flood of federal money into the United States economy ever recorded. Roughly $5 trillion went to households, mom-and-pop shops, [...]

The process behind calling elections: how The Times will report live election results during the 2022 primary season. Follow our live election results of the Texas primary. The 2022 primary [...]