Politics

Members of Generation Z — people born after 1996 — are about to play a major role in an American presidential election for the first time. But there has been little discussion of how their opinions, priorities and needs differ from those of older generations. I’m a political reporter for The New York Times, and […]

Fear That Good News for the President is Bad News for the Democrats The stock market is roaring. Unemployment is at a record low. The economy added 266,000 new jobs in November. Though these things are objectively good, of course, they are less good if you are a Democrat and you don’t want the current

The former Labour MP for Ipswich, Sandy Martin, who lost his seat to the Conservatives in Thursday’s general election, has hit out at politicians’ campaigns, saying “the only way that we can win elections in this country now is by lying”. Mr Martin, who was elected as Labour MP in 2017, was defeated by Tory

Everyone had seen the scenery. The sun would rise, the sun would set, Representative Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas, would yell. It would be really cold in the hearing room, and at some point, the committee members would all break for lunch, hopefully soon. There was much to argue about, little to be convinced about.

This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weeknight. What happened After more than 12 hours of deliberation, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee abruptly postponed a vote to approve two impeachment articles against President Trump. The committee will reconvene

Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a clear majority in the general election, with Labour swept aside in its traditional heartlands. It was a good night for the SNP, which gained several seats including that of Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson. Here’s a round-up of key events from the night, from the exit poll announcement

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has released several internal legal opinions that could help bolster President Trump’s claim of executive privilege in barring Congress from interviewing witnesses and collecting documents from the executive branch. The legal opinions were written during previous Democratic and Republican administrations by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which provides

WASHINGTON — Under pressure over his possible impeachment, President Richard M. Nixon supposedly talked to the paintings in the White House. President Bill Clinton absently toyed with his old campaign buttons. President Trump punches out Twitter messages in the lonely midnight hour. Long after his staff has gone home, long after the lights have gone

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday vigorously defended her decision to grant partial or no loan relief to tens of thousands of students who were misled by for-profit colleges, blaming the Obama administration for overpromising debt relief. Appearing before the House Education Committee, Ms. DeVos faced Democrats who have accused her of unjustly

WASHINGTON — Hours before the House Judiciary Committee was set to take a historic vote to push President Trump to the brink of impeachment, campaign officials gathered across the Potomac River for a state-of-the-race briefing in which they described how the Republican Party had been transformed into the “beer and bluejeans party” crafted in Mr.