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Nov 07, 2026
8 writers and experts on the legislation Democrats should consider.
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Nov 07, 2026
While U.S. voters largely oppose the trade war with Canada, many Democrats and their supporters have protectionist leanings.
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Nov 07, 2026
Following an election-year rout for Republicans, Trump castigated lawmakers for not passing the Sunshine Protection Act. Some scientists have warned against the change.
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Nov 07, 2026
In a Democratic landslide election, here are the ads that stood out. Some were effective, while others backfired.
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Nov 07, 2026
Candidates backed by the right-wing activist group did not fare well, and the results set off recriminations from establishment Republicans.
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Nov 07, 2026
Incoming senators are nearly 15 years younger than departing ones, on average. But the chamber's overall age isn't shifting much.
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Nov 06, 2026
The president has bulldozed through obstacles as he has sought to remake the face of Washington. But newly empowered Democrats and angry judges are setting up a high-stakes showdown.
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Nov 06, 2026
See the full list of the Democrats who defeated Republican incumbents and challengers for Congress and state offices previously held by Republicans.
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Nov 06, 2026
Democrats' wins in the Lone Star state exceeded their wildest dreams.
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Nov 06, 2026
James Talarico's worn-in Lucchese cowboy boots helped shape his image during his Senate campaign in Texas. Vanessa Friedman, our chief fashion critic, explains the political meanings they carried.
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Nov 06, 2026
Behind the scenes, the world's richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country's politics to his will. He couldn't.
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Nov 06, 2026
Anger over tariffs and higher costs because of the war in Iran led many Republican farmers and ranchers to vote blue — or stay home.
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Nov 06, 2026
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said in a statement that he would spend several weeks recovering at a rehabilitation center.
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Nov 06, 2026
Live from Brooklyn, Michelle Cottle, Jamelle Bouie and David French weigh in on the "blue tsunami."
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Nov 06, 2026
A looming impeachment push could put President Trump's polarizing defense secretary in a standoff with Democrats and Republicans.
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Nov 06, 2026
Scott Colom, the Democratic nominee, has kept his edge over the Republican incumbent, Cindy Hyde-Smith, as more provisional and mail ballots were reported throughout the state.
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Nov 06, 2026
Democrats have a chance to rewrite the rules of the economy. Here's how.
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Nov 06, 2026
The rare Democrat in a fabled family of wealthy Republicans, he served 30 years as senator and helped bring health insurance to millions of low-income children.
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Nov 06, 2026
"The Daily" goes to Capitol Hill to talk with Senator Chuck Schumer.
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Nov 06, 2026
Anger over tariffs and higher costs because of the war in Iran led many Republican farmers and ranchers to vote blue — or stay home.
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Nov 06, 2026
Democrats have a chance to rewrite the rules of the economy. Here's how.
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Nov 05, 2026
A phalanx of lawyers, observers and campaign officials are watching the counting of votes in the race for Senate, where a Democratic challenger has a slim lead.
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Nov 05, 2026
In the latest edition of "Sound Off," Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor at The New York Times, speaks with the author Amy Siskind about her reaction to our reporting on the Alaska Senate race.
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Nov 05, 2026
The store agreed to settle a claim that it was not entitled to the loan because its owner is married to a U.S. senator.
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Nov 05, 2026
Mary Peltola, the Democrat, was leading Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican, in incomplete returns. A New York Times analysis suggested she was on track to prevail.
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Nov 05, 2026
Obviously, the Texas election was about more than shoes. But the symbolism mattered.
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Nov 05, 2026
Plus: A critic of our Alaska Senate race story, and election night inside The Times.
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Nov 05, 2026
Juggling celebration and concern, American Jews are negotiating their place in a dramatically shifting political landscape.
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Nov 05, 2026
They won Senate races in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, with a Mississippi race still too close to call. Their wins lifted down-ballot candidates too.
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Nov 05, 2026
Years of organizing met a moment of voter discontent, as James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa offered Texans a vision of economic relief and political change.
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Nov 05, 2026
Scott Colom, a Democrat, ran a viral ad and courted Republicans at a Trump rally before winning virtually the same number of votes as Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican.
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Nov 05, 2026
Several midterm winners broke barriers, but with campaigns that focused on delivering material change to the lives of Americans.
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Nov 05, 2026
In the latest edition of "Sound Off," Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor at The New York Times, speaks with the author Amy Siskind about her reaction to our reporting on the Alaska Senate race.
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Nov 05, 2026
Many donated money to President Trump's favored causes and became his allies. Now that political alignment may be a liability.
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Nov 05, 2026
Years of organizing met a moment of voter discontent, as James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa offered Texans a message of economic relief and political change.
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Nov 05, 2026
What an amazing election night.
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Nov 05, 2026
The Ozymandias election.
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Nov 05, 2026
What an amazing election night.
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Nov 05, 2026
Some Democrats quickly signaled they could try to roll back the president's tax and trade policies, ignoring his early veto threats.
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Nov 05, 2026
Years of organizing met a moment of voter discontent, as James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa offered Texans a message of economic relief and political change.
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Nov 05, 2026
Many Muslim Americans said they voted for Abdul El-Sayed, the first Muslim elected to the Senate, because of his policies, not just his faith.
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Nov 04, 2026
How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms.
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Nov 04, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed's election to the Senate is significant not because he shares their religion, Muslim Americans said, but because he prioritizes issues that many voters care about.
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Nov 04, 2026
Victories by moderates in competitive or Republican-leaning states and districts paved the way for large new Democratic majorities likely to be shaped by their priorities.
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Nov 04, 2026
After a decade at the center of American politics, President Trump is politically wounded, with diminished power. Those who know him say the next two years will be unpredictable.
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Nov 04, 2026
The president's approval was essential to winning Republican Senate primaries. It became lethal in competitive general-election races.
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Nov 04, 2026
A two-term Democratic governor and a suburban revolt against President Trump laid the groundwork for Adam Hamilton's victory.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats are clinging to small leads in both states, and it may take quite a while until the winners are known.
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Nov 04, 2026
The conservative justice has told friends he does not plan to step down before the end of the court's term, even as Democrats are set to seize the Senate in January.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats' sweep of Congress further whittled the already small ranks of Republican women.
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Nov 04, 2026
Global leaders shared their reactions a day after Democrats routed the Republican Party in the midterm elections and were on track to control both the House and the Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
After a decade at the center of American politics, President Trump is politically wounded, with diminished power. Those who know him say the next two years will be unpredictable.
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Nov 04, 2026
The Maine Republican survived tough cycles in the past even as the political ground shifted underneath her. But the anti-Trump fever in her state doomed her this time.
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Nov 04, 2026
And what the party should do with its new majority in the House and Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats' strong showing included wins in every statewide race.
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Nov 04, 2026
The race for U.S. Senate is incredibly close in Mississippi, which does not allow for vote recounts in statewide elections.
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Nov 04, 2026
The president loves combat and chaos. He's about to get more of it.
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Nov 04, 2026
President Trump usurped power from the legislative branch with Republican help for two years. Democrats are now positioned to try to claw back some of Congress's prerogatives.
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Nov 04, 2026
When a new Congress is sworn in, it will have the power to hold hearings and issue subpoenas, prompting one representative to advise White House officials and others to "lawyer up."
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Nov 04, 2026
Fairshake, the major industry super PAC, spent $46 million on ads against the Democrat, Sherrod Brown, who won.
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Nov 04, 2026
Troy Jackson, a former Democratic state lawmaker, upset Senator Susan Collins, a Republican who had served the state for 30 years.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats clinched control of Congress, but the full scale of the party's landslide, and Republicans' losses, remained unknown.
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Nov 04, 2026
For once, the numbers provided a quick, decisive verdict. But from Fox News to the Kornacki Cam, the voices and faces told the story.
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Nov 04, 2026
And what the party should do with its new majority in the House and Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats celebrated a seismic triumph in the midterm elections, winning control of the Senate and the House as voters delivered a blistering rebuke to President Trump. Peter Baker, The New York Times's Chief White House correspondent explains what this historic reset of the balance of power in Washington means.
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Nov 04, 2026
The midterms were full of firsts, including the first Black woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state and the first openly gay man to serve in the Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Democrat and outspoken critic of Israel, won Michigan's Senate race, maintaining his party's hold on a crucial battleground seat and becoming the nation's first Muslim senator.
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Nov 04, 2026
Investors are already picking the winners and the losers after Democrats glided to a landslide victory in the midterm elections.
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Nov 04, 2026
The party's midterm victory reshapes the political landscape.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats flipped several Senate seats, most of which had been held by Republicans since former President Obama was elected in 2008.
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Nov 04, 2026
What mattered most in these midterms?
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Nov 04, 2026
The party clinched the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, giving Democrats a powerful platform to counter President Trump.
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Nov 04, 2026
Plus, how to vote from space.
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Nov 04, 2026
The race could take weeks to be decided.
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Nov 04, 2026
The race could take weeks to be decided.
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Nov 04, 2026
In Michigan, Adbul El-Sayed outlasted former Representative Mike Rogers in a Senate campaign marred by ugly attacks.
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Nov 04, 2026
"People hate the way that Trump is running this country," the columnist Michelle Goldberg argues. Her fellow columnists and the American electorate agree. Democrats had a great night, but what now? Eight Opinion columnists offer their views on what Democrats need to do next, and what Trump's final two years in office might hold.
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Nov 04, 2026
In Michigan, Adbul El-Sayed outlasted former Representative Mike Rogers in a Senate campaign marred by ugly attacks.
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Nov 04, 2026
The Democratic Party wrested control of Congress from Republicans in a wave of midterm victories as voters delivered a scathing rebuke to President Trump.
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Nov 04, 2026
Mr. Ricketts secured Republicans' grip on the deep-red state by defeating Dan Osborn, a mechanic and military veteran.
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Nov 04, 2026
Republicans lost control of the House and Senate as voters offered a stinging rebuke to President Trump's agenda.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats won shocking victories all over the map and flipped the Senate and House with ease, leaving the president weakened. "There was a mood in the air, I guess," he said.
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Nov 04, 2026
Every Senate win holds important lessons for Democrats.
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Nov 04, 2026
Representative Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, the first openly gay man to win a Senate seat, spoke about a Democratic victory over the "broken status quo" and gave a shoutout to his husband.
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Nov 04, 2026
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed will become the nation's first Muslim senator. He triumphed in one of the country's most bitter and expensive races, keeping his party in control of a crucial seat.
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Nov 04, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed's victory answers several questions.
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Nov 04, 2026
Voters from South Carolina to Ohio to Texas have elevated a new class of Democrats who could not be more different from one another.
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Nov 04, 2026
In his victory speech, Senator Jon Ossoff, Democrat of Georgia, said he hoped his daughters would inherit a better future.
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Nov 04, 2026
For years, Ken Paxton turned scandal into a test of Republican loyalty, but his Senate defeat exposed the limits of a political strategy that helped reshape Texas.
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Nov 04, 2026
A G.O.P. voter in Kansas put it bluntly: "The Republican Party has lost its way."
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Nov 04, 2026
One of the greatest survivors in U.S. politics finally falls.
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Nov 04, 2026
Senator Susan Collins, the sole Republican representing New England in Congress, acknowledged that her seat had been lost on a landslide night for Democrats.
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Nov 04, 2026
One of the greatest survivors in U.S. politics finally falls.
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Nov 04, 2026
For Republicans, Texas has long been a dependable political anchor. Its loss was a profound psychological blow.
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Nov 04, 2026
In a stunning string of victories in Iowa, Texas, and North and South Carolina, Democrats delivered a midterm thrashing repudiating President Trump.
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Nov 04, 2026
In a seismic shift that was once unthinkable, victories by James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa upended decades of statewide dominance in what had been the nation's most populous conservative state.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats won a Senate seat in Kansas for the first time in nearly 100 years. Our election data reporter Christine Zhang talks about the growing Democratic footprint in the state.
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Nov 04, 2026
Ms. Flanagan, Minnesota's lieutenant governor, ran against the former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya. She becomes the first Native American woman elected to the Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
In the race for U.S. Senate in Texas, Republicans forfeited gains that President Trump made among Hispanic voters in 2024. Our election data reporter Christine Zhang explains.
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Nov 03, 2026
Mr. Turek, a Paralympian and state representative, defeated Representative Ashley Hinson, a Republican, in one of this year's top Senate races.
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