President Trump once assailed the Obama administration for making cash payments to Iran. Now he supports sanctions relief that could give the country a $14 billion windfall.
In a new set of oral histories, David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s political adviser, described how he urged Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. not to challenge Hillary Clinton for the nomination.
Whatever short-term gain the president thinks he is getting by lying about the war in Iran is far exceeded by the cost, for him, the country and the world.
He lived through the first atomic bombing in Japan and then spent decades researching the identities of 12 American P.O.W.s killed in the attack.
Bill Clinton gave Mr. Chavez the nation’s highest civilian honor. Barack Obama made Cesar Chavez Day a federal holiday. Joe Biden displayed a bronze bust of Mr. Chavez. So far, all have been quiet.
Rompiendo un tabú, el presidente Trump importunó en el Despacho Oval a la primera ministra de Japón con una mención al ataque de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Breaking a taboo, President Trump needled Japan’s prime minister about the World War II attack, as she widened her eyes and appeared to take a deep breath in the Oval Office.
A leader of the movement to secure rights for migrant farmworkers, she is a close friend of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.
Supporters and opponents of the plan agreed on at least one thing: The alternative was war.
The lieutenant governor of Illinois, who is running in the Senate Democratic primary, is a close ally of Gov. JB Pritzker who has said ICE should be abolished.
The New York Times reached out to people close to President Trump’s predecessors. They disputed Mr. Trump’s claims.
How to fix the Democratic Party’s toxic brand.
Barack Obama, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Bill Clinton were among the dozens of speakers at a public memorial for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson in Chicago on Friday. The event celebrated the civil rights leader’s commitment to public service and racial justice.
The large-scale, public event in Chicago on Friday caps two weeks of memorials for Mr. Jackson, the civil rights leader, who died at 84.
On seeking clarity in the reasons for the military operation and restraint in foreign policy.
The president’s unique attributes have combined with the ordinary pathologies of American foreign policy.
Decisions come fast, even if contradictions and inconsistencies abound. But without much of a process, there is little preparation for how things can go wrong.
La decisión del gobierno Trump de detener el ingreso de petroleo extranjero está hundiendo el turismo en la isla, un sector vital para la economía cubana en medio de una crisis cada vez más profunda.
The Trump administration’s decision to cut off foreign oil to the island is devastating its tourism industry, a key source of income for a government being pushed to the edge.
Stakes in private companies. Handshake deals with chief executives. The president’s economic policy has drifted far from principles that long defined the Republican Party. Is it capitalism at all?
The daughter of a politician, she didn’t expect to become one. But once she ran for office in 1987, there was no stopping her.
Politics drive a wedge between even the longest of friends.
We got our economic response to the coronavirus right. Why would we let go of that success?