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Oct 15, 2021
The Arizona senator is, at heart, a Democrat of convenience and expediency. She could well break up with the party — before it breaks up with her.
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Oct 14, 2021
Senator Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat, announced he would force another vote next week to bring legislation to the floor despite a Republican blockade.
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Oct 13, 2021
With the Senate out of session, Ms. Sinema, the Democratic senator from Arizona, has been in Europe on a fund-raising trip.
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Oct 13, 2021
Democratic leaders are considering a long-shot proposal intended to get around political and procedural roadblocks to provide temporary legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants.
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Oct 13, 2021
We asked 18 academics what they would choose if they could pick only one, as Senator Manchin has reportedly advised.
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Oct 13, 2021
Readers discuss how to combat Trumpism. Also: The F.D.A. decision on e-cigarettes; the port crisis; parents and teenagers; decluttering responsibly.
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Oct 13, 2021
We asked 18 academics what they would choose if they could pick only one, as Senator Manchin has reportedly advised.
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Oct 12, 2021
Democrats are staring down a decade of powerlessness, and some strategists think shutting up about racial injustice and immigration could save them.
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Oct 11, 2021
To help fund its new initiatives, the Biden administration wants banks to report more customer information. Account holders aren't happy.
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Oct 11, 2021
President Biden had an ambitious agenda to remake the economy. But under the duress of negotiations and Senate rules, he has shelved a series of proposals, some of them indefinitely.
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Oct 11, 2021
Maneuvering over the debt; Indigenous Peoples' Day; China's economy; border crisis; a course in the Beatles; a quieter SoHo; advice, wanted or not.
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Oct 11, 2021
The Senate is in a tizzy. Education is in a tizzy. Also, Democratic strategists.
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Oct 10, 2021
Legislation aimed at infrastructure and social programs also includes big changes in energy, transportation and disaster preparation. They would amount to the most significant climate action ever taken by the United States.
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Oct 10, 2021
With the president's agenda stalled in Congress, many Democratic voters are growing impatient and disillusioned.
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Oct 09, 2021
How the conservative Democrat should be negotiating with his party.
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Oct 09, 2021
In the fight over the debt ceiling, both political parties are behaving badly, albeit in very different ways.
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Oct 09, 2021
If what faces Big Tech is anything like what happened to Big Tobacco, the road ahead is likely to be a yearslong battle over proposed rules and regulations.
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Oct 08, 2021
Will the industry finally have its feet held to the fire?
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Oct 08, 2021
A day after agreeing to allow a short-term increase in the federal debt limit to move forward, the Republican leader said Democrats should not expect such cooperation in December.
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Oct 08, 2021
As Democrats ponder cutting a $3.5 trillion social safety net bill down to perhaps $2 trillion, a proposal to limit programs to the poor has rekindled a debate on the meaning of government itself.
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Oct 08, 2021
The Arizona senator, who started in politics as an environmentalist, is one of two centrist Democrats who could make or break a spending bill at the center of President Biden's legislative agenda.
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Oct 08, 2021
Lawmakers almost never act until they absolutely must — and even then, they usually punt.
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Oct 08, 2021
His forecasting model shows a looming disaster for Senate Democrats. Are they going to do anything about it?
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Oct 08, 2021
Progressive activists have adopted more aggressive tactics against Senator Kyrsten Sinema and other centrist holdouts as she declined to answer questions and the stakes for President Biden's agenda have risen.
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Oct 07, 2021
In a 50-to-48 vote, the Senate passed legislation to raise the debt ceiling through early December. The House is expected to take up the bill on Tuesday.
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Oct 07, 2021
An agreement struck on Thursday allows the government to cover its expenses through early December, but does little to address the crux of the partisan stalemate.
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Oct 07, 2021
An agreement struck on Thursday allows the government to cover its expenses through early December, but does little to address the crux of the partisan stalemate.
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Oct 07, 2021
The agreement avoids catastrophic consequences of a default by the federal government, but runs only through early December.
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Oct 07, 2021
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, announced that he reached an agreement with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, to raise the federal borrowing limit through early December.
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Oct 07, 2021
The 14th Amendment offers a way out.
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Oct 07, 2021
The agreement avoids catastrophic consequences of a default by the federal government, but runs only through early December.
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Oct 07, 2021
Americans strongly favor raising taxes on the rich. Why are Democrats struggling to do so?
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Oct 07, 2021
The 14th Amendment offers a way out.
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Oct 06, 2021
A Senate panel fleshed out how Donald Trump pursued his plan to install a loyalist as acting attorney general to pursue unfounded reports of fraud.
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Oct 06, 2021
With a default on federal debt as little as 12 days away, Senator Mitch McConnell offered to let Democrats temporarily lift the borrowing limit.
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Oct 06, 2021
The triumph of being less awful than usual.
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Oct 06, 2021
Shortly after the C.E.O.s met with President Biden, Senator Mitch McConnell said he would allow Democrats to raise the debt ceiling enough to push a potential default to December.
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Oct 06, 2021
The Treasury secretary says the government will run out of money to spend if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling. Here's what that could mean for programs that help millions of Americans.
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Oct 06, 2021
Shortly after the C.E.O.s met with President Biden, Senator Mitch McConnell said he would allow Democrats to raise the debt ceiling enough to push a potential default to December.
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Oct 06, 2021
The proposal offered a way out of the short-term fiscal crisis, and a means for Republicans to defuse criticism that they were acting recklessly, but only put off the threat of a default.
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Oct 06, 2021
The proposal offered a way out of the short-term fiscal crisis, and a means for Republicans to defuse criticism that they were acting recklessly, but only put off the threat of a default.
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Oct 06, 2021
A battle over academic freedom at Yale. Also: Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona; hazing and assault on campus; bike chaos in New York; Messi's goal.
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Oct 06, 2021
Top Democrats say the Republican refusal to allow a vote to avert a federal default is the most powerful argument yet for weakening the Senate's signature procedural weapon.
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Oct 06, 2021
Frances Haugen, a former product manager at the company, spent hours detailing to lawmakers how the social network harmed young people. Facebook disagreed with her testimony, but said new rules for the internet were long overdue.
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Oct 06, 2021
Congressional testimony by a former employee could be a turning point for the social media giant.
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Oct 05, 2021
Senate Democrats discussed carving out an exception to the 60-vote requirement as they explore ways to overcome Republican opposition.
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Oct 05, 2021
Republican and Democratic senators voiced support for greater regulation of Facebook and its social media platforms during a hearing in which a whistle-blower warned about wrongdoing inside the company.
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Oct 05, 2021
The Arizona senator has undergone a political metamorphosis.
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Oct 05, 2021
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has a long record of tying debt ceiling increases to policy demands. But this time, he has made none.
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Oct 05, 2021
Frances Haugen, who left the social network in May and leaked internal documents, gave senators rare insight into its inner workings.
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Oct 05, 2021
The president has conceded that his $3.5 trillion collection of spending programs and tax cuts will need to shrink to about $2 trillion or less.
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Oct 05, 2021
Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, told senators that there were solutions to problems seen across social media platforms and that a safer, free-speech-respecting, more enjoyable social media was possible.
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Oct 05, 2021
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Pramila Jayapal asserted that the firms were "abusing the public trust and taking advantage of the revolving door between public service and private profit."
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Oct 05, 2021
Frances Haugen, a former product manager for Facebook, testified during a Senate hearing, accusing the company of knowing its platforms are harmful and putting profits before safety.
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Oct 05, 2021
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has a long record of tying debt ceiling increases to policy demands. But with a catastrophic default two weeks away, he has yet to make any.
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Oct 05, 2021
Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, testifies before the Senate after releasing documents showing that Facebook knew how harmful its platforms could be.
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Oct 05, 2021
Frances Haugen, a former product manager for Facebook, will argue to protect consumers from a profits-over-safety culture.
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Oct 05, 2021
Frances Haugen, a former product manager for Facebook, will argue to protect consumers from a profits-over-safety culture.
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Oct 05, 2021
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has a long record of tying debt ceiling increases to policy demands. But with a catastrophic default two weeks away, he has yet to make any.
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Oct 04, 2021
There's a difference between being a maverick and being a narcissist.
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Oct 04, 2021
The president warned Republicans "not to use procedural tricks to block us from doing the job."
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Oct 04, 2021
Business interests are using ads and other efforts to cajole Democrats to change or kill a $3.5 trillion social policy bill.
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Oct 04, 2021
President Biden chastised Republican lawmakers for what he called obstruction in raising the debt ceiling, warning that Americans could see the implications as early as this week if Senate Democrats were not able to vote to increase the debt limit.
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Oct 04, 2021
Mr. Biden warned Republicans "not to use procedural tricks to block us from doing the job."
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Oct 04, 2021
The former Republican representative from Missouri was widely criticized after saying in 2012 that women's bodies could reject pregnancies that were the result of a sexual assault.
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Oct 03, 2021
Liberals rejected demands from moderate Democrats to shrink President Biden's domestic policy agenda by more than half, though they said they were willing to compromise.
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Oct 02, 2021
The measure, which extends expiring transportation programs for a month, had originally been part of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that stalled in the House this week.
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Oct 02, 2021
The measure, which extends expiring transportation programs for a month, had originally been part of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that stalled in the House this week.
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Oct 02, 2021
The Electoral Count Act needs to be fixed.
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Oct 02, 2021
Progressives flexed, but remain empty-handed. Moderates feel betrayed. The outcome of their battle could determine Democrats' fate in the midterms and the success of the Biden presidency.
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Oct 02, 2021
The president's push for transformative policies is running into the realities of governing with no votes to spare.
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Oct 02, 2021
The Electoral Count Act needs to be fixed.
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Oct 02, 2021
The Garbo of the Senate leaves Democrats confused and angry.
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Oct 02, 2021
Dozens of nominations have been held up by a fight between the Texas senator and the Biden administration over a Russian gas pipeline project.
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Oct 01, 2021
Lawmakers in the Senate and House cleared a short-term spending bill to extend federal funding through early December, avoiding a government shutdown.
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Oct 01, 2021
Or at least try it.
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Oct 01, 2021
Polls show women and other reliably Democratic voters have soured on the president's performance, raising questions about the causes of dissatisfaction.
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Oct 01, 2021
House Democrats delay a crucial vote.
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Sep 30, 2021
Senate Democrats pushed forward with a party-line procedural vote on the measure, but it is all but guaranteed to fail in the face of Republican opposition.
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Sep 30, 2021
The president signed the stopgap bill on Thursday evening, after both chambers of Congress passed it earlier in the day.
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Sep 30, 2021
Senators from both sides of the aisle threw harsh questions at Antigone Davis, Facebook's global head of safety, admonishing her for withholding internal information about how its services hurt young people.
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Sep 30, 2021
The incoming director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, is expected to use his position to rein in financial firms.
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Sep 30, 2021
The Senate passed a short-term spending bill to extend federal funding through early December, avoiding a government shutdown at midnight.
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Sep 30, 2021
Getting children hooked on social media is a bad idea.
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Sep 30, 2021
Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia for the first time stated publicly how much funding he would support in a reconciliation bill focused on social programs, saying that he could not vote for a package costing more than $1.5 trillion.
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Sep 30, 2021
The legislation passed 65 to 35, and now heads to the House, where it is also expected to be approved, clearing it for President Biden's signature.
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Sep 30, 2021
The justices will also consider a dispute over whether Boston was entitled to turn down a private group's request to raise a Christian flag in front of its City Hall.
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Sep 30, 2021
The amendment by Senator Tom Cotton would have cut off aid by the end of March 2023.
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Sep 30, 2021
President Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi were seen cheering on the sideline and talking to players at the annual Congressional Baseball Game as they tried to salvage two crucial pieces of Mr. Biden's domestic agenda.
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Sep 30, 2021
Parts of the government that operate under the discretion of Congress's annual spending process will run out of money if a stopgap spending bill does not pass.
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Sep 30, 2021
Antigone Davis, Facebook's global head of safety, faces questions from lawmakers about Instagram's effect on teenagers, addressing accusations that Facebook has known for years that its photo-sharing app has caused mental and emotional harm.
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Sep 30, 2021
The House and Senate are both expected to pass short-term bills to fund the government, but a planned infrastructure vote is in limbo amid deep party divisions.
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Sep 30, 2021
The company faces accusations that it hid research showing the mental and emotional harm its photo-sharing app Instagram has had on teenagers.
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Sep 30, 2021
A key vote on one of the president's top priorities is approaching, but now members of his own party are threatening to block it. Here's why.
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Sep 29, 2021
The social network published its findings about Instagram's effect on young users, as senators prepared to question an executive on Thursday.
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Sep 29, 2021
Democrats prepared a spending bill to keep the government funded past a Thursday deadline, but moderates dug in harder against their ambitious social safety net bill.
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Sep 29, 2021
With a bipartisan infrastructure bill set for a Thursday vote in the House, a campaign by business groups and some Senate Republicans to secure G.O.P. support may be the measure's last hope.
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Sep 29, 2021
The centrist senator is key to President Biden's agenda in Washington. Her positions have angered some Democrats back home.
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Sep 29, 2021
For decades, politicians have rewarded wealth over work, putting big corporate interests above working families. That has to stop.
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