Politics

by Sarah Lyall on April 17, 2021 at 5:30 pm

Democrats are breathing easier. Republicans are crying censorship. For all of the country’s news consumers, a strange quiet has descended after a four-year bombardment of presidential verbiage.

by Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger on April 17, 2021 at 5:14 pm

Over two decades of war, the Pentagon had fended off the political instincts of elected leaders frustrated with the grind of Afghanistan. But President Biden refused to be persuaded.

by Luke Broadwater, Catie Edmondson and Rachel Shorey on April 17, 2021 at 4:20 pm

The lawmakers, who encouraged their followers to protest in Washington on Jan. 6, have capitalized on the riot to draw huge campaign donations.

by Katie Benner on April 17, 2021 at 3:47 pm

Lisa Monaco, a veteran of national security posts, is expected to be a key player in the administration’s push to combat domestic extremism, embodied most publicly in the department’s […]

by Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland on April 17, 2021 at 3:00 pm

The U.S. government invested $800 million in plasma when the country was desperate for Covid-19 treatments. A year later, the program has fizzled.

by Quinta Jurecic on April 17, 2021 at 1:01 pm

On April 15, the Treasury Department answered one of the biggest questions left unresolved by the Mueller investigation—and left unanswered as well by the 2020 Senate Select Intelligence […]

by Olga Khazan on April 17, 2021 at 11:00 am

Beth Van Duyne was at the center of a controversy over Sharia law. Now she represents a congressional district Biden won.

by Giovanni Russonello on April 17, 2021 at 10:11 am

This year’s election is shaping up to be the city’s first in which super PACs play a major role.

by Paul Kane on April 17, 2021 at 10:00 am

Medical experts said members of Congress could be great evangelists for vaccination in their communities. Many Republican lawmakers are reluctant, however, to talk about getting the shots.

by Trip Gabriel on April 17, 2021 at 9:00 am

In Canonsburg, known for its big Fourth of July parade, many people say they are proud of America and its military but weary of the two-decade war in Afghanistan.

by Jennifer Medina on April 17, 2021 at 9:00 am

Ms. Roem, a Virginia delegate who in 2018 became the first openly transgender legislator in the country, spoke with The Times about Republicans’ anti-trans crusade and how Democrats can push […]

by Lisa Lerer on April 17, 2021 at 9:00 am

What will G.O.P. foreign policy be post-Trump? Who knows!

on April 17, 2021 at 4:18 am

Trump, meanwhile, was quick to praise veterans in public, but also made ... AP FACT CHECK: False claims swamp first Trump-Biden debate.

by David E. Sanger and Katie Rogers on April 17, 2021 at 4:16 am

The subtext of the meeting was responding to China’s influence and its aggressive actions in the Indo-Pacific and beyond, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga resisted being drawn into a rivalry.

by Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Miriam Jordan on April 17, 2021 at 1:12 am

The Biden administration will for now maintain a historically low refugee cap. But after a widespread backlash from Democrats, the White House said it would raise refugee admissions in May.

by Katie Benner on April 16, 2021 at 11:17 pm

Attorney General Merrick Garland rescinded a Trump administration policy curbing use of the decrees, which provide a way to force changes in police departments.

on April 16, 2021 at 11:17 pm

... taken into custody by Trump's military and tried for her crimes. This is not supported by any public evidence and has been debunked by Lead Stories ...

on April 16, 2021 at 10:52 pm

The alleged bounties were not among the reasons cited as justification for the sanctions. In July, a Post fact-check challenged Trump's attempt to ...

by Kenneth Chang on April 16, 2021 at 10:14 pm

Elon Musk’s company bested Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and others in the contest to carry American astronauts to the lunar surface.

by Alan Feuer on April 16, 2021 at 9:51 pm

The plea by a member of the far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers was the first to be entered publicly by any of the more than 400 people who have been charged so far in the attack.

on April 16, 2021 at 9:00 pm

Efforts by the Trump administration to speed up vaccine development may also deserve some credit. But hiring has been strong the last two months ...

on April 16, 2021 at 9:00 pm

The pandemic has given rise to unprecedented economic losses and gains both. In this tumult, President Donald Trump also was able to claim record ...

by Stewart Baker on April 16, 2021 at 8:55 pm

They used to say that a conservative was a liberal who’d been mugged. Today’s version is that a conservative who’s comfortable with business regulation is a conservative who’s […]

on April 16, 2021 at 7:30 pm

Here's why: A Donald Trump ally who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in the investigation of whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential ...

by Michael Levenson on April 16, 2021 at 7:11 pm

Critics call the measure racist and anti-democratic, and say it could criminalize peaceful demonstrations.

by Steve Slick on April 16, 2021 at 6:50 pm

The Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the 7th annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to […]

on April 16, 2021 at 6:33 pm

Haass: Previous Trump-Taliban deal gives Biden 'a degree of cover' in ... Fact check: No, Queen Elizabeth II was not laughing at a prank played by ...

on April 16, 2021 at 5:48 pm

A hand recount of every ballot cast in Antrim County affirmed the results and Trump's victory there. Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy explains the source of ...

by Tia Sewell on April 16, 2021 at 5:42 pm

Just after 11 p.m. last night, a gunman killed at least eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, reports the New York Times. The city’s police stated that the attacker killed himself […]

by Jennifer Steinhauer on April 16, 2021 at 5:07 pm

As the United States withdraws from its longest war, a memorial that recognizes one of its most complicated ones officially opened in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

by Olivier Knox on April 16, 2021 at 3:20 pm

White House sidelines planned commission, eyes “George Floyd” bill

by Mark J. Valencia on April 16, 2021 at 3:00 pm

In March the Philippines formally protested the presence of about 200 Chinese boats moored near its claimed Whitsun Reef in the South China Sea. Philippines Secretary of Defense Delfin Lorenzana […]

on April 16, 2021 at 2:37 pm

It compared this to Ibn Shaikh al-Libi, a source who claimed to know about Saddam Hussein training al-Qaeda to make poison gas. A USA Today "fact- ...

by Lester Munson on April 16, 2021 at 2:34 pm

Fault Lines welcomes Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the book "Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World." What are […]

on April 16, 2021 at 2:25 pm

Yeah, well it wasn't conclusive back when the politically timed anti-Trump hit ... the Post still insists that Trump was lying about not receiving the reports. ... more fake news to save face over […]

by Cat Zakrzewski on April 16, 2021 at 1:34 pm

Liberal Democrats and union organizers say the failed Amazon union drive makes the legislation more necessary than ever before.

by Zolan Kanno-Youngs on April 16, 2021 at 1:13 pm

by Olga Khazan on April 16, 2021 at 1:00 pm

For people like me, who have social anxiety, videoconferencing can be easier than in-person interactions.

by Paige Winfield Cunningham on April 16, 2021 at 11:57 am

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure has a resume Republicans can't argue against.

by Tonya Riley on April 16, 2021 at 11:46 am

The broader inquiry follows the sanctioning of five Russian tech companies by the Treasury Department for aiding in Kremlin hacking.

by Jacqueline Alemany on April 16, 2021 at 11:24 am

But his GOP colleagues and labor experts are skeptical.

by Jen Patja Howell on April 16, 2021 at 9:01 am

On Wednesday, President Biden announced a full withdrawal of all U.S. military personnel from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, an announcement that comes as the U.S. and Afghan governments have […]

by Isabella Grullón Paz on April 16, 2021 at 9:00 am

A study by a liberal group found a reverse coattails effect in 2020: Down-ballot candidates may have helped elect President Biden, rather than the other way around.

on April 16, 2021 at 4:47 am

A Treasury Department statement Thursday offered a potentially significant clue, asserting that Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian and Ukrainian political ...

by Giovanni Russonello on April 16, 2021 at 12:42 am

Americans don’t think the president deserves sole credit for the widespread availability of Covid vaccines, but they like the job he’s doing getting them distributed, a new poll found.

by Zolan Kanno-Youngs on April 16, 2021 at 12:39 am

A Texas judge allowed the government this week to take possession of a family’s land because the Biden administration has yet to end lawsuits seeking property along the border.

by Bryce Klehm on April 15, 2021 at 8:30 pm

This Monday, April 19, at 3:50 p.m. ET, Jennifer Daskal, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) deputy general counsel; Eric Goldstein, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security […]

by Victoria Gallegos on April 15, 2021 at 7:00 pm

Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise visit to Afghanistan today, shortly after President Biden formally announced complete U.S. troop withdrawal from the country, writes the Hill. […]

by Robert Chesney on April 15, 2021 at 6:17 pm

The United States has just sanctioned various Russian entities in express response to the SolarWinds Orion exploit campaign. But what normative line, if any, is the U.S. saying the Russians crossed? […]

by Olivier Knox on April 15, 2021 at 3:19 pm

Burns cites ‘significant risk’ extremists will rally after U.S. troops leave.

by Cat Zakrzewski on April 15, 2021 at 1:28 pm

Their move could further inflame tensions between Silicon Valley and Republican politicians.

by Victoria Gallegos on April 15, 2021 at 1:01 pm

On Thursday, April 15 at 1:00 p.m., the Committee on House Administration will hold a hearing on the oversight of the U.S. Capitol Police and preparations for and response to the Jan. 6 […]

by Robert Chesney, Steve Vladeck on April 15, 2021 at 12:40 pm

In this week’s episode, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: The proposed Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act (and DOJ’s January 2021 response to an earlier version […]

by Tonya Riley on April 15, 2021 at 11:52 am

The hackers infiltrated nine federal agencies.

by Paige Winfield Cunningham on April 15, 2021 at 11:30 am

An FDA advisory panel didn't make any firm decisions.

by Jacqueline Alemany on April 15, 2021 at 10:56 am

Reactions to the president's decision to withdraw all U.S. troops was fast and mainly critical.

by Brendan I. Koerner on April 15, 2021 at 10:00 am

In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife […]

by Russell Berman on April 15, 2021 at 10:00 am

Democrats are criticizing Republicans for pushing restrictive voting laws. But states such as Joe Biden’s Delaware can make casting a ballot difficult.

by Jen Patja Howell on April 15, 2021 at 9:01 am

This week on Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jameel Jaffer and Ramya Krishnan of the Knight […]

by Jen Patja Howell on April 14, 2021 at 9:35 pm

President Biden announces that all U.S. military forces will be out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11. A blackout at an Iranian nuclear facility is widely attributed to Israeli sabotage, complicating […]

by Victoria Gallegos on April 14, 2021 at 7:05 pm

Today, President Biden announced complete American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, reports the New York Times. During his speech, Biden argued the U.S. cannot “continue the cycle […]

by Jackson Neagli on April 14, 2021 at 3:18 pm

Recent news coverage of the ongoing situation in Xinjiang has focused on whether or not those events meet the international legal definition of genocide. Declarations by both the Trump and Biden […]

by Berin Szóka, Corbin Barthold on April 14, 2021 at 2:30 pm

After months of delay, on April 5 the Supreme Court finally granted certiorari and ruled in Biden v. Knight—the case, renamed after President Biden took office, concerning whether the First […]

by Jordan Schneider on April 14, 2021 at 1:21 pm

Scott Rozelle (legend, Stanford professor, co-director of the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions) joins ChinaTalk to discuss his recent book, "Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural […]

by Victoria Gallegos on April 14, 2021 at 1:20 pm

On Wednesday, April 14 at 10:00 a.m., the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will hold a hearing on worldwide threats. The committee will hear testimony from Avril Haines, director of […]

by Victoria Gallegos on April 14, 2021 at 1:18 pm

On Wednesday, April 14 at 10:00 a.m., the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Kristen Clarke to be the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's […]

by Elaine Godfrey on April 14, 2021 at 10:00 am

Public-health leaders in rural America are turning toward the next and more difficult stage of the nationwide vaccination campaign: persuasion.

by Jen Patja Howell on April 14, 2021 at 9:01 am

A lot of people are expressing anxiety about white supremacist violent terrorism, yet in a new Brookings paper entitled "Identifying and Exploiting the Weaknesses of the White Supremacist Movement," […]

by Victoria Gallegos on April 13, 2021 at 6:57 pm

Kim Potter, the police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, and Tim Gannon, police chief of Brooklyn Center, Minn. both resigned today, according to the New York Times. Potter was a police officer […]

by Bryce Klehm on April 13, 2021 at 6:44 pm

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines released the U.S. intelligence community’s unclassified 2021 Annual Threat Assessment today. The 27-page document details “the most direct, […]

by Bryce Klehm on April 13, 2021 at 6:12 pm

This Friday, April 16, at 1 p.m. ET, Julian Ku, the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law, will join Benjamin […]

by Yuval Shany on April 13, 2021 at 12:01 pm

On April 4, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued its judgment in National Responsibility v. Gov’t of Israel, the latest case in a series of legal challenges to controversial measures […]

by Peter Nicholas on April 13, 2021 at 10:00 am

For the administration, strengthening the middle class is essential to national security.

by Karen Tumulty on April 12, 2021 at 10:00 am

The former first lady fought the most conservative elements of the Reagan administration in an attempt to get her husband to pay more attention to the deadly pandemic. It wasn’t enough.

by MeetThePress@nbcuni.com (NBC News) on April 11, 2021 at 2:47 pm

Sec. of State Antony Blinken discusses vaccine diplomacy and world hotspots in an exclusive interview with Meet the Press. Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.) explains why he vetoed a bill limiting health […]

by Edward-Isaac Dovere on April 10, 2021 at 11:00 am

People who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine will have higher health-care costs. The rest of us will foot the bill.

by Ronald Brownstein on April 9, 2021 at 1:21 pm

Republicans are making a risky bet by opposing Biden’s infrastructure plan.

by Emma Green on April 9, 2021 at 10:00 am

Many Americans would recognize the dilemma of Reuven, an anonymous Yiddish-magazine editor who is anguished by his community’s moral failures in the pandemic.

by Annie Lowrey on April 7, 2021 at 10:00 am

His proposals are radical. He’s obsessed with robots. He’s never even worked in government. And next year he might be running New York.

by Adam Harris on April 6, 2021 at 10:00 am

Summer programs will help. But they won’t be enough.

by MeetThePress@nbcuni.com (NBC News) on April 4, 2021 at 2:49 pm

Sec. Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) discuss the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan. Dr. Michael Osterholm explains what the fourth Covid wave means for the return to […]

by Graeme Wood on April 2, 2021 at 1:00 pm

A man calling himself Grandmaster Jay has raised a disciplined, heavily armed militia. It has yet to fire a shot at its enemies, but it’s prepared for war.

by Edward-Isaac Dovere on March 31, 2021 at 2:37 pm

Representative Eric Swalwell built a public profile criticizing the ex-president. He’s still figuring out what’s next.

by Olivier Knox on March 30, 2021 at 3:37 pm

There are concerns about the government’s role – and equal access to the vaccine and passport technology.

by Olga Khazan on March 30, 2021 at 10:00 am

People are stretching the truth to get the vaccine faster, but experts say I shouldn’t. Here’s why.

by Russell Berman on March 29, 2021 at 7:11 pm

The party is trying to ban partisan gerrymandering nationwide, but aggressively redrawing districts in blue states like New York might be the only way to preserve its House majority.

by Katie Rose Quandt on March 29, 2021 at 11:00 am

Every day, in small towns and cities across the country, thousands of people are booked into local jails, many for minor crimes. Some never come home.

by MeetThePress@nbcuni.com (NBC News) on March 28, 2021 at 2:33 pm

In today’s special edition on gun violence, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) discuss the spate of mass shootings and the stalemate gun reform. […]

by Elaine Godfrey on March 26, 2021 at 11:00 am

The pandemic’s retreat doesn’t necessarily mean life will get easier for people with OCD.

by Peter Nicholas on March 24, 2021 at 11:15 am

Yes, he wants to avoid making a gaffe, but he also doesn’t want to be an in-your-face president.

by Edward-Isaac Dovere on March 24, 2021 at 11:00 am

The fight between politicians, parents, and teachers over school reopenings could soon affect elections.

by Russell Berman on March 23, 2021 at 2:00 pm

State GOP lawmakers want to maximize their party’s advantage in the next presidential race, but their approach is far from consistent.

by Ronald Brownstein on March 23, 2021 at 10:00 am

All in the Family was the first program to genuinely reckon with the cultural upheaval of 1960s America. TV would never be the same.

by Jonathan Cohn on March 22, 2021 at 9:00 am

Democrats did the work, Republicans didn’t—and that says a lot about the two parties.

by MeetThePress@nbcuni.com (NBC News) on March 21, 2021 at 2:42 pm

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas discusses the surge of migrants at the border. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) breaks down his fight for voting rights. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) shares […]

by Alvin Melathe on March 19, 2021 at 8:40 pm

What a spiritual adviser saw when the federal government executed a man on death row.

by Marina Koren on March 19, 2021 at 3:04 pm

After 62 years, the space agency will have to wait a little longer for its first female leader.

by MeetThePress@nbcuni.com (NBC News) on March 14, 2021 at 2:31 pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci shares when you can expect life to return to normal. Stacey Abrams and Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R-Ga.) discuss the fight to reshape democracy. Lanhee Chen, John Heilemann, Hallie […]

by MeetThePress@nbcuni.com (NBC News) on March 7, 2021 at 3:49 pm

Jeffrey Zients provides an update on the state of vaccine rollout and Michael Osterholm explains the risks of reopening too soon. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) discusses the divides in his party and his […]

by MeetThePress@nbcuni.com (NBC News) on February 28, 2021 at 4:00 pm

In an exclusive interview, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks about U.S.-Canada relations. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) discusses the progressive and moderate divides in his party. Dr. Anthony Fauci […]