Politics

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A widening income gap and sagging social mobility have left dents in the American dream. But the belief that anyone with enough gumption and grit can clamber to the top remains central to the nation’s self-image. And that could complicate Democratic efforts to frame the 2020 presidential election as a referendum on […]

Our White House correspondent Maggie Haberman is one of The Times’s most prominent and prolific reporters. Her days are often marathons of meetings and encrypted messages that frequently end in long nights working on front-page scoops about the Trump administration. We recently invited readers to ask Maggie questions about her career and reporting methods. We

A special prosecutor was appointed Wednesday to investigate the fatal shooting of Eric J. Logan, an African-American man, by a white South Bend, Ind., police officer who did not have his body camera activated at the time. Sgt. Ryan O’Neill, the police officer, had gone to investigate a 911 call about a man breaking into

WASHINGTON — With Christine Lagarde, the current leader of the International Monetary Fund, poised to become the next president of the European Central Bank, the big questions on Wednesday were who would succeed her and whether the United States would break with tradition and try to install an American in the post. On Tuesday, European

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday upheld a block on President Trump’s attempt to use $2.5 billion from the Department of Defense to construct a wall along the southwestern border, impeding the delivery of one of his signature campaign promises. The divided three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit agreed with

How did you see the debate around immigration as a college student? DACA came around 2012, and it wasn’t so much that it was all peace and tranquillity in my circles. I hung out with a lot of other Latina women, many of whom were undocumented or had parents who were. We didn’t really think

Providing comprehensive health coverage to undocumented immigrants has long been nothing more than a wouldn’t-it-be-nice item on the far left’s wish list. But in the crowded field of candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, nearly everyone supports it. Almost all of the 19 candidates who responded to a recent New York Times survey

Rick Snyder, a former governor of Michigan, removed himself from an upcoming fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School amid a backlash over his role in a water contamination crisis in one the nation’s most impoverished cities. The choice of Mr. Snyder as a fellow by the prestigious school of government inflamed Mr. Snyder’s critics after

WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday that migrants were “living far better” in Border Patrol detention centers than in their home countries, one day after his own administration reported that children in some facilities were denied hot meals or showers, and that cells were so crowded that migrants begged to be freed. In a

Labour MP Neil Coyle has accused the prime minister of leading “a government of paralysis that has failed to tackle knife crime”. Responding at PMQs, Theresa May said too many lives were “being cut short” and futures “cruelly robbed” from the victims and families. She insisted the government was taking action to cut violent crime.