Nina Meyers, Brianna Gaulding, Jordan Triplett, and LaMani Adkins photographed at one of Spelman College’s tennis courts. Founders’ Day. Jordan Triplett takes a selfie on campus. Behind her: Jillian Woodard, Meredith Brown, Prenessa Lowery, Janelle McGregory, Zaire Bailey, Ciana Robinson, Kourtney…

“When you hear about the tough phone calls I’m having, don’t worry about it. Just don’t worry about it," President Donald Trump said at last week's National Prayer Breakfast. | Getty President Donald Trump spent much of a recent phone call with French President Francois Hollande veering off into…

“If they don’t seem to care what conservatives think about complete repeal of Obamacare, they’re going to be shocked when they count the votes," Sen. Rand Paul said. | AP Photo Republicans have reached a gut check moment: After spending more than six years vowing to fix the flagging patient that is…

Representative Tom Price is sworn in as Health and Human Services Secretary by Vice President Mike Pence on February 10, 2017. (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik) Back in early January, which seems like five years ago, Republicans passed a budget resolution through Congress, instructing House and Senate…

The right sees its political opposition as #triggered snowflakes who need a “safe space.” In the words of Trump’s chief strategist Stephen Bannon, “They’re either a victim of race. They’re victim of their sexual preference. They’re a victim of gender. All about victimhood and the United States is…

Asa Mathat This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. If robots are going to take over human jobs, that means fewer people will be working, which in turn means fewer people will be paying taxes. And that’s a problem,…

Chris Visions Last May, as Donald Trump was locking up the Republican nomination, a prophetic clip began circulating among portions of the left. It was a nearly one-year-old segment of ABC’s Sunday show This Week , featuring Rep. Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Democrat then on the verge of winning a…

Linda Greenhouse Who Will Watch the Agents Watching Our Borders? Whom do federal immigration agents despise more: former President Barack Obama, or the immigrants whose lives are in their hands? That uncomfortable question came to mind as I read articles over the past week of the growing numbers of…

Story highlights Ex-Obama communications director says the communications team may not be able to rein in President Trump But there are other things they can do to improve their outreach to the public, she says, noting credibility is a vital asset Jen Psaki, a CNN political commentator and Spring…

X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON -- President Trump is flailing like a man who fears he's about to go under, and he hasn't even been in office a full month. His instinct is to flee to the warmth and comfort of his political base -- but he will learn that while presidents can run, they can't…

Faced with a crisis of government management, Donald Trump and his team have responded with two campaign tactics that helped him win the election. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS / AP Last week, a senior White House official shared a candid theory with me about why President Donald…

Op-Ed Contributor The Downfall of Kellyanne Conway Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway arrives for the daily briefing at the White House press room on February 14. Credit... Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press As Kellyanne Conway sleepwalks her way through a series of increasingly…

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith is under fire for criticizing President's Trump's treatment of CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a freewheeling news conference Thursday and for Trump's refusal to answer questions about his campaign's ties to Russia. "It's crazy what we're watching every day," Smith said…

Richard A. Friedman Is It Time to Call Trump Mentally Ill? Credit... Matthieu Bourel A lot of people seem to be questioning President Trump’s mental health. This month, Representative Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, went so far as to say he was considering proposing legislation that would require a…

Op-Ed Contributor What Beyoncé Won Was Bigger Than a Grammy Beyoncé performing during the Grammy Awards on Sunday. Black people have great imaginations, not just in the arts but in everyday life. We imagined ourselves as family when we were treated as property. We imagine equity and freedom when we…

The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, at the daily White House briefing on January 23. AP Photo/Evan Vucci The White House quickly denied an explosive Associated Press report published Friday morning that said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was seeking to mobilize 100,000 National…

Daniel Ellsberg, center, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, at the Watergate hearings. Credit... Mike Lien/The New York Times If there were an award for news media buzzword of the week, this one could go to “leak.” Since the resignation on Monday night of Michael T. Flynn as national security adviser —…

AP Images Jack Shafer is Politico ’s senior media writer. Baby Donald’s gallivanting press conference left the normally erudite Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd so bent that he posted his shockingly ahistorical sentiments to Twitter Thursday. “This not a laughing matter. I’m sorry, delegitimizing…

Championship teams from Connecticut have made numerous trips to the White House. Last May, President Barack Obama honored the Huskies, including Breanna Stewart, left, and Moriah Jefferson, right. Credit... Stephen Crowley/The New York Times STORRS, Conn. — When Connecticut won its 11th N.C.A.A.…

MOSCOW – Several months ago, on the outskirts of Moscow, someone took white paint and scrawled a short statement of political protest onto the side of a garbage depot. “Trump is a faggot ,” the graffiti read. This small act of defiance in then-Donald Trump-loving Russia went largely unnoticed,…

An ICE raid on Feb. 9 in Atlanta. Bryan Cox/ICE via Getty Images Since Donald Trump entered office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have cracked down on undocumented immigrants , conducting coordinated raids that appear to target not only convicted criminals but also individuals whose…

When it comes to attracting younger readers, the outreach efforts of The New York Times and Washington Post seem to be paying off. New data from the Pew Research Center finds that adults under age 50 got their election news from national newspapers at rates equal to or greater than those of people…

Since his election to the presidency, Donald Trump has spoken on the phone to a number of world leaders. And in at least some of these calls, according to some accounts, the American leader lived up to his reputation for straight-talking and bombastic rhetoric. Here's what we know so far about some…

Op-Ed Contributors Sanctuary Cities in Name Only New York police officers on Saturday watched people protest against the immigration policies of President Trump. President Trump’s plan to deport millions of people appears to be underway. Last week, federal immigration officials arrested more than…

Walking from Mexico to the United States at the border crossing in San Ysidro, Calif. Credit... Mike Blake/Reuters Leer en español Haisam Elsharkawi was about to travel from Los Angeles to Saudi Arabia last week when, he says, he was stopped at the airport, questioned, handcuffed, questioned some…

Kellyanne Conway during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Tuesday. Credit... Stephen Crowley/The New York Times WASHINGTON — The White House adviser Kellyanne Conway’s public endorsement of Ivanka Trump’s product line appears to be “a clear violation of the prohibition against…

Congressional Memo Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, left, and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, during a news conference on Wednesday where they discussed plans to replace the Affordable Care Act. Credit... Al Drago/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans,…

For two years, Donald Trump mastered the art of disruption. Name a political precept and he probably broke it during his improbable march to the White House. But disruption in government–the rulemaker breaking the rules–turns out to be more costly. In the first month of his presidency, the New York…

Nicholas Kristof What Did Trump Know, and When Did He Know It? During the Watergate scandal, until now the most outrageous political scandal in American history, the crucial question was drawled by Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?” Today the…

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price attends a congressional confirmation hearing on January 24, 2017. (Reuters / Carlos Barria) On Capitol Hill, the prospects for transforming the health-care system don’t look good. Hard-line conservatives want to go back to the initial plan of repeal…

Credit... Christophe Vorlet When Donald J. Trump was campaigning for president, he said that he wanted “to put H&R Block out of business” by simplifying the income tax laws. But tax simplification isn’t a simple task, and while Mr. Trump singled out the company again on Wednesday, saying it would…

President Trump took issue with reports of an administration in turmoil, saying his team was running like a “fine-tuned machine.” Credit... Stephen Crowley/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump, smarting from a series of crises, moved his surrogates aside on Thursday and assigned the…

If ever there was a political event that deserved “A Closer Look” by Seth Meyers, it was Thursday’s “batshit crazy” press conference from President Donald Trump “full of false claims, grievances, and attacks on the media.” After literally shredding the script that Trump rendered “completely…

“We had a really nice show planned for you,” Trevor Noah told his audience at the top of Thursday night’s Daily Show . “Very civil, very calm. And then, in the middle of the day, Hurricane Trump happened, again.” After playing a montage of the best one-liners from the 77-minute White House press…

Getty Tim Alberta is national political reporter at Politico Magazine . None of this feels normal. The congressman greets me inside his Washington office wearing a wrinkly collared shirt with its top two buttons undone, faded denim jeans and grungy, navy blue Crocs that expose his leather-textured…

‘I won,’ Trump said, unloading on the media during an extraordinary news conference. ‘The people get it.’ After stewing in anger during four rocky weeks in the White House, President Donald Trump had his say on Thursday. He spent 80 minutes in an impromptu East Room news conference shredding his…

Getty President Donald Trump fumed about intelligence community leaks during a meeting at the White House with his earliest supporters in Congress, according to two of the attendees. “He was furious about that," said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), one of 11 lawmakers who huddled with Trump and posed for…

Jeff Zucker said CNN journalists treat President Donald Trump's insults "as a badge of honor, because it means they are doing their jobs.” | Getty CNN President Jeff Zucker declared on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s comments about the channel being fake news are a “badge of honor” and that…

Some of Donald Trump’s supporters have signaled that they are unhappy with the rate at which the Republican Congress is enacting the president’s agenda. Matt Drudge, in a tweet that has since been deleted , wrote, “Congress hanging The Donald out to dry. Making him do everything alone! Despicable.…

On Friday, President Trump and his entourage will jet for the third straight weekend to a working getaway at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. On Saturday, Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr., with their Secret Service details in tow, will be nearly 8,000 miles away in the United Arab…