Shaking Off Midterm Drubbing, Liberal Donors Look 6 Years Ahead
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Meeting in Washington this week, an alliance of liberal philanthropists is laying plans for what it hopes will be a long-term resurgence of progressive ideas.
Ignoring Republican protests, President Obama will assert his executive authority to order a broad overhaul of the immigration system, including a plan to give work permits to millions, officials said.
Meeting in Washington this week, an alliance of liberal philanthropists is laying plans for what it hopes will be a long-term resurgence of progressive ideas.
Senate Democrats voted on Thursday to keep Senator Harry Reid of Nevada as their leader, but Democrats expressed frustration with the party’s direction.
Senator Mitch McConnell was elected unanimously as incoming Senate majority leader. Caucus gives him a standing ovation.
With the last session of the 113th Congress underway, Democrats are looking to expand their leadership ranks, and members of both parties are preparing to pass some legislation.
As friends, aides and donors gather for the 10th anniversary of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, thoughts will turn to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ambitions.
President Obama has largely left the cap on his veto pen, but that might not be the case for much longer.
The landmark agreement to cut greenhouse gas pollution is a bet by President Obama that the environment will be a winning cause for Democrats.
The United States and China should both be able to meet the stated goals by aggressively pursuing policies that are largely underway, analysts said.
For incoming House freshmen, going to Congress is like going to college, with orientation on the dos and don’ts of Capitol Hill and a tough search for housing.
The denouement of Election Day continued to play out as the House and the Senate scheduled dueling votes to try to influence the outcome of the unresolved Louisiana Senate race.
Congressional Republicans have plans to transform Medicare and Medicaid and to cut taxes for high earners, measures once out of reach with Democrats controlling the Senate.
Faced with declining budgets, the Army has had to cut its force, and, for reasons the Army has not explained, the largest group of officers being pushed out — nearly one in five — began as enlisted soldiers.
The acting State Department legal adviser told a United Nations panel that monitors torture that the United States had used cruel treatment after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Black and Democratic lawmakers in Alabama said the state Legislature relied too heavily on race in 2012 by maintaining high concentrations of black voters in some districts.
Senator Mark Begich narrowly lost his re-election bid to Dan Sullivan after a count of absentee ballots.
The justices, with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissenting, lifted a temporary stay that had been issued on Monday.
Judge Richard Gergel of Federal District Court on Wednesday struck down South Carolina’s same-sex marriage ban as unconstitutional, but gave the state a week to appeal.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is championing liberal values nationally, but at home, he is being criticized by the same police critics whose cause he backed during his campaign.
Mrs. Roukema was a Republican whose moderate views often put her at odds with her party, most notably in her support of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was re-elected last week , has defended her decision to take free trips to conferences and socialize with lawyers for corporations under investigation by other states.
Senate Republicans on Wednesday welcomed the reinforcements to the Capitol after last week’s sweeping election win.
If members of Congress cannot make deals now, they might never be able to, because all sides have real incentives to act.
The two pro-gun Republicans elected during recall elections last year were handily beaten this month by Democrats, which analysts called a lesson in the impact of turnout.
The anti-tax group is endorsing six senators for re-election two years from now, all of them Republicans who won their seats as part of the Tea Party wave of 2010.
Many states will have more workers in call centers this year and more enrollment events to help people through the insurance sign-up process.
Former President George W. Bush’s book “41: A Portrait of My Father” could inspire historical reassessments of two former presidents.
Virtually everyone agrees that some rules written to regulate telephone service should not apply to the Internet but there are disagreements about what rules should survive.
Enthusiasm for President Obama brought out younger and nonwhite voters in 2008 and 2012, but demographic changes are set to have the same effect.
A Republican, Mr. Doar prosecuted some of the most notorious cases of murder in the South in the ’60s and was chief counsel to the House panel investigating Watergate.
Members of Congress tend to tread carefully on the climate debate, and last week’s midterm elections showed why they are wise to do so.
Mr. Obama will arrive at an international economic meeting in Australia hoping to press European and Asian leaders to get their economies moving again — and perhaps buoy his own presidency.
Maps of precinct-level results from some of the closest Senate races.
Contests that were expected to be close were not, and races expected to go Democratic broke narrowly for the Republicans.
The Supreme Court’s decision to take up the Affordable Care Act again raises a question: Is it a court? Or a collection of politicians in robes?
Ready or not, the midterm elections signal the unofficial start of the next presidential campaign. Assessing the prospects of some likely candidates.
The former secretary of state, who is almost certain to run for president in 2016, should seize this window in the campaign season to elaborate her strategy.
The state is counting on collecting slightly more personal income tax this year than last. But it is not on track to do so.
It’s common for laws to be structured in ways that might not be very efficient but sound good for political consumption.
Sticking with an election theme, The Upshot staff found several thought-provoking and visually appealing items on the web this week.
Democrats’ poor midterm performance is unlikely to help, or hurt, their next presidential candidate. The state of the economy will matter more.
In the second season of his show, “Alpha House,” the longtime editorial cartoonist continues his exploration of the Republican narrative.
A year after it was fully in place, the Affordable Care Act has largely succeeded in delivering on President Obama’s main promises, even as it fell short in some ways and gave birth to a new and powerful conservative movement.
For the past year, The New York Times has asked readers to share their experiences purchasing and using health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Here is a selection of their stories.
More than 12 years after the Bush administration first sent detainees to the prison in Cuba, tensions are mounting over whether President Obama can close it before leaving office.