Politics

Mr. Sessions’s predicament says a lot about a Republican Party that Mr. Trump has turned into a vessel for his own political security, held together not by shared beliefs but instead by fealty to him. No one was more of an evangelist for the ideas Mr. Trump ran on than Mr. Sessions. Yet his political […]

Who knows what classicism ultimately means, but the draft order makes it come across as awfully prim and petty. No matter how much its supporters say that enforcement wouldn’t be dogmatic, the order provokes inevitable allusions to authoritarian regimes of the past that imposed their own architectural marching orders, and dredges up images of antebellum

MERRIMACK N.H. — In the back row of an event geared toward veterans for Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., on Thursday, a discussion broke about one of his Democratic rivals — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Christine Bagley, 65, said Ms. Warren had been her top choice but described her as

In their most substantive debate statements to date on abortion, several of the leading Democratic presidential candidates reaffirmed on Friday night that if elected, they would put forward only Supreme Court nominees who supported Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision establishing a woman’s right to abortion. Historically, many presidential candidates have shied away

MANCHESTER, N.H. — For months, he played the big-talking front-runner, swaggering if rarely steady, hoping voters would not linger long on the tautology of his premise: Joe Biden was the candidate who should win, he told fellow Democrats, because he was the candidate who could win. So it was with some apparent humility — and

“Unlike some of the campaigns up here,” Mr. Sanders said, “I don’t have 40 billionaires, Pete, contributing to my campaign.” Even Andrew Yang, the former tech entrepreneur who has rarely used his debate appearances to target his rivals, saw an opportunity to take on Mr. Buttigieg. “Pete, fundamentally, you are missing the lesson of Donald

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Friday directly criticized Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont over his record on guns, drawing a sharp contrast with one of his top rivals on an issue that is important to many Democratic voters. Mr. Biden faulted Mr. Sanders for voting in favor of a

Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota gave a fiery response at Friday’s debate to one of the most common lines of any presidential campaign: that voters want a new face, not a symbol of the old ways of Washington. On this particular night, the line came from former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., who

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — On Friday, three days after his State of the Union address, President Trump traveled to North Carolina to drive home one of the speech’s major themes. “This is a blue collar boom,” Mr. Trump said, repeating what he told Congress was responsible for “the great American comeback.” He added, “Boom!” Mr. Trump’s

My colleague David Brooks, a longtime opinion columnist here, considered that phenomenon recently. The big news events in our lives, David wrote, “have ceased to drive politics the way they used to. We’ve seen gigantic events like impeachment, the Kavanaugh hearings, the Mueller investigation and the ‘Access Hollywood’ tapes. They come and go and barely