Why do the president and many of his opponents act as though American political life is just another film noir?
Readers call for stricter enforcement of traffic rules for bike riders and stricter punishments for reckless drivers. Also: When Obama picked Joe Biden; whose history gets taught.
Calling Mr. Trump ‘completely unfit,’ Mr. Walsh, a conservative radio host, will adopt a television-centric strategy to try to rattle a media-obsessed president.
The former law professor’s path to presidential contender began in Texas bankruptcy courts, where she witnessed desperate families, similar to her own.
Jay Inslee and Seth Moulton are out, John Hickenlooper is in (a Senate race), and new plans for labor and the environment.
Jay Inslee and Seth Moulton are out, John Hickenlooper is in (a Senate race), and candidates released plans for labor and the environment.
Democrats say they care about global warming. Why couldn’t Mr. Inslee get more traction on it?
Kamala Harris has the home-state advantage, but the other Democratic presidential hopefuls are not ceding the state.
With the state gripped by the possibility of another Kennedy campaigning for Senate, the incumbent is not backing down: “Oh, I’m running.”
Plus: her evening ritual, which involves “Bachelor in Paradise” and CBD gummies.
The Washington governor and self-described climate candidate told us what it was like to achieve national recognition — after leaving the presidential race.
Mr. Moulton, a congressman from Massachusetts, had focused his campaign on national security. He hinted at potentially supporting Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Trailing badly in the polls and in fund-raising for 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio hopes that an hour on CNN Sunday before the nation’s voters can change his standing.
Mr. Yang is no fan of the president. But his coalition includes conservatives who see nonpartisan logic in his message about automation and job loss.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
There are signs of a disconnect between support for Mr. Biden in polls and excitement for his campaign on the ground in Iowa.
With his announcement on Thursday, Mr. Hickenlooper instantly became one of the Democrats’ best hopes in their quest to retake the Senate next year.
Presidential candidates come with a message — and a playlist. We look at how music helps set the tone.
An interview with the 2020 presidential candidate
Joe Walsh, now a conservative radio show host, is expected to announce a primary challenge to Mr. Trump.
If one more candidate qualifies for the September debate in Houston, it will be spread across two nights. Tom Steyer and Tulsi Gabbard are close.
Bernie Sanders rolled out a plan for organized labor as more than a dozen Democratic candidates pitched themselves to workers in Iowa.
The president’s lawyer wants investigations of the Biden family and reports that Ukrainian officials tried to damage the Trump campaign in 2016.
This thing is still wide open.
Presidential candidates should follow the example of my boss, John McCain, in avoiding divisive politics.
Democratic candidates are pushing ideas that were considered radical just a few years ago. But the American public has changed its views, too.
Mr. Castro, the former housing secretary, met the polling and donor benchmarks needed to earn a spot onstage in Houston in September.
We asked the Democratic presidential candidate how her decision to call for the resignation of a Senate colleague may have affected her campaign and her party.
Presidential campaigns have a sound. We analyzed the playlists of 10 contenders to see how the songs aligned with the messages.
“You may like another candidate better, but you have to look at who is going to win,” she said, while campaigning for Joe Biden in New Hampshire.
Women have never been more engaged. Now, at a critical moment, a poll looks at where their priorities lie.
The forum in Iowa gave Ms. Warren a chance to showcase her plans to help Native communities — and to address the lingering controversy over her past claims of ancestry.
There’s no good way to know which Democrat will do best in the general election.
The blame lies not with Russian hackers but with the presidential candidates and the federal government.
As a young mayor, he was given a prime-time speaking spot at the 2012 Democratic Convention. He is still trying to get from that stage to a bigger one.
The former San Antonio mayor entered the presidential race in January and has had a tough time distinguishing himself from a crowded field of Democratic candidates. But Julián Castro is proving his strength is going head-to-head with his opponents.
John Hickenlooper said he would give “serious thought” to a Senate run, Beto O’Rourke reset the focus of his campaign and Stacey Abrams laid out her 2020 plans.
Money isn’t everything. But it does keep the lights on, and it explains why this Democratic field looks the way it does today.
The president has a long history of calling protesters names. But there’s no other known instance of him mocking one of his own supporters by accident.
The president has a long history of calling protesters names. But there’s no other known instance of him mocking one of his own supporters by accident.
Several high-profile Democrats would rather hold on to their low-polling presidential campaigns instead of running for the Senate. Has it lost its appeal?
Ms. Warren’s campaign got off to a rocky start amid a controversy over her ancestry. Now she is making an effort to show how she would help Native people.
Their partnership is the stuff of buddy-movie lore, but those who saw it up close described a more difficult, complicated dynamic.
As the markets wobble over fears of a slowdown amid an escalating trade and currency war with China, the president defended policies that are rattling many businesses and investors.
As the markets wobble over fears of a slowdown amid an escalating trade and currency war with China, the president defended policies that are rattling many businesses and investors.
As associates of the president consider running for office, a potential bid by his former campaign manager could serve as a trial balloon.
After the shooting in El Paso, Mr. O’Rourke decided to abandon his focus on early primary states and more directly confront the president over immigration and gun control.
Mr. Hickenlooper’s presidential campaign failed to gain traction. He is eyeing the Republican-held Senate seat in Colorado, a major target for Democrats.
Even as she demonstrates why she is a leading presidential candidate, Ms. Warren is facing persistent questions and doubts about whether she would be able to defeat President Trump.
Ms. Abrams, who announced this week that she would not run for president, told The New York Times in an interview that she would be “honored to be considered” for vice president.
Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Kirsten Gillibrand and Tom Steyer are getting closer to qualifying, and they’re urgently seeking supporters who can help them earn a spot onstage.
Mr. Hickenlooper, who has remained near the bottom of the Democratic field, is in discussions to challenge Colorado’s Republican senator, Cory Gardner.
Ms. Abrams will concentrate on building a national movement for fair and equitable elections, including a voter protection hotline.
Senator Cory Booker detoured from early-voting states to hold rallies this month in Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee, where turnout will be essential to Democrats winning back key states in 2020.
We followed presidential hopefuls around the Iowa State Fair and rated them on a corn dog scale.
It’s not because he is 76, his campaign says. The former vice president has always had this tendency, and he hopes it won’t hurt him in the 2020 race.
After mass shootings jolted the nation this month, the Democratic candidates seemed to move in lock step toward more aggressive gun control positions without resistance from moderates.
In the On Politics newsletter: Lessons from a sweaty, calorie-filled weekend at the state fair. Plus, riding the Ferris wheel with Cory Booker.
They don’t vote for “moderates” or “progressives.” They vote for people.
Greed, ego and willful blindness at the top.
Most candidates go to the fair to establish human connections with voters. Mr. Sanders’s approach underscored how his campaign is focused primarily on championing ideas.
An outspoken progressive wing in the House has seized the country’s attention. But the path to power for Democrats may depend on moderates, who have a very different vision for the party. Meet one of them.
Democratic presidential candidates descended on Des Moines to meet prized Iowa caucus voters, spend time with their families and, of course, eat some food on a stick.
The presidential candidate is back in the spotlight after a tragedy in a city that is core to his personal and political identity.
After months of putting the state on the back-burner, Ms. Harris has stepped up her presence in Iowa, spending more days there in recent weeks than she did through June.
Readers react to David Brooks’s appeal for “an uprising of decency” by the Democrats to counter President Trump.
The candidates blamed the president for fostering white nationalism and described how they would combat gun violence if elected.
Democrats are highly critical of NAFTA and China, but they will have a hard time taking a tougher line than Mr. Trump has as president.
Matt Flegenheimer, a political reporter for The Times, set out to do what the New York City mayor running for president seems to believe few others have done — understand him.
We can’t misuse the charge in an effort to suppress protected speech.
Nearly all of the 2020 Democratic candidates gave speeches at the annual event, and while many joked about the size of the field, most sought to contrast themselves with President Trump.
In the Trump era, a number of companies have found themselves, willingly or not, tossed by partisan storms.
The Democratic candidates descend on Iowa to give it a try — and sample the best food on a stick the state fair has to offer.
Three New York restaurateurs — David Chang, José Andrés and Christina Tosi — pleaded with the developer Stephen Ross to cancel a fund-raiser for President Trump.
Mr. Biden was speaking at a town hall hosted by the Asian & Latino Coalition in Des Moines when he made the remark, which he quickly sought to recover from.
Mr. Biden was speaking at a town hall hosted by the Asian & Latino Coalition in Des Moines when he made the remark, which he quickly sought to recover from.
Calling out campaign donors isn’t a new political tactic, but the question of how much should be publicly disclosed about them has been an issue repeatedly raised by Republicans in recent years.
Calling out campaign donors isn’t a new political tactic, but the question of how much should be publicly disclosed about them has been an issue repeatedly raised by Republicans in recent years.
Skipping the fair would be seen as a huge insult to Iowans in the crucially important first primary state, but what do voters really want to see?
A look at what happens when politics enters every spandex-clad corner of life, especially in the Hamptons.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, a fierce critic of the network, became the first Democratic presidential candidate to go on Mr. Hannity’s show.
Mr. Yang, an entrepreneur, earned 2 percent support in a new poll, adding him to the group of Democratic presidential candidates who will go to Houston in September.
A few major candidates are not focusing their campaigns on the state.
And are Democrats breaking up with Obama?
In an interview, Senator Elizabeth Warren said President Trump had “done everything he can to stir up racial conflict and hatred in this country.”
In an interview, Ms. Warren said the president had “done everything he can to stir up racial conflict and hatred in this country.”
It’s not what you think it is.
Millions of Americans who did not like the president in 2016 now say they do.
The Democratic candidates lashed the president with their sternest denunciations yet of his exploitation of racism for political purposes and his resistance to gun control.
A new online calculator has a winner: Baby bonds.
Melinda Katz wins the Democratic nomination by 55 votes after a recount erases her opponent’s slim election night lead.
In areas like Sugar Land, Tex., a burgeoning multiethnic population and suburbanites repelled by President Trump are giving Democrats more hope.
The Democratic Socialists of America figure out what it means to oppose Donald Trump.
While several presidential candidates have already rolled out plans to address gun violence, others endorsed new policies after two mass shootings over the weekend.
The New York mayor turned quixotic presidential candidate seems sick of his city—and the feeling is mutual.
A New TV Show from The New York Times on FX and Hulu
Groups like the Sunrise Movement helped pressure Democratic presidential candidates to support the Green New Deal. They are now deciding how to use their rising influence.
For those who recently attended a debate camp, the Democratic debates were not a chance to undercut rivals or wring donations but something else: a lesson plan.
In the wake of two shootings, one of which is being investigated as domestic terrorism, some said the president creates a culture that lets white nationalism thrive.
After widespread criticism over attacks on Barack Obama at this past week’s debates, Democratic candidates at a labor forum in Las Vegas took a very different tack.
His race-baiting is impulsive and unpopular, not a brilliant strategy to win white votes.
Democratic presidential candidates have raised over $200 million so far. We analyzed fund-raising data to see where they’re getting their money.
Sanders and Warren dominated Night 1. Biden, Booker and Harris were the focus of Night 2. We’ll do it all again in September.
Bringing the energy and hope to stare down Trump and his movement.
Experimenting with our coverage of the Democratic debates (since there are so many of them).
Or we will be if America doesn’t leave the rest of the world alone. That’s why the 38-year-old congresswoman from Hawaii is running for president.
Readers explain why they find candidates other than the front-runners more appealing.
A growing number of young voters, including conservatives, identify climate change as a top priority. Republican strategists fear that could soon pose a big problem.
His approach to both Medicare and the border.
Rather than effectively prosecute the easy case against the worst president ever, the Democrats went after one of the best.
New qualifying rules are changing the way presidential campaigns are run — and giving some candidates a clear edge.
A New TV Show from The New York Times on FX and Hulu
We analyzed the Democratic presidential candidates’ fund-raising to see how widespread their support was across the United States.
Delivering a reliably red-meat speech to supporters who gathered Thursday in Ohio, President Trump took the stage to paint prominent Democrats as “left-wing extremists.”
The fissures displayed at the Democratic debates in Detroit left senior Trump campaign officials predicting a bump in their poll numbers in critical Rust Belt states.
As Mayor Bill de Blasio runs for president, his tenure is coming under more scrutiny than he might have expected.
Democrats should answer questions about race the way she did.
Readers assess Joe Biden’s performance, urge the lower-tier candidates to focus on Senate races and critique the sniping among the contenders.
We need an uprising of decency.
He’s winning the debates and he’s great on paper. When will he catch on?
After two rounds of debates, 24 Democratic candidates are still running for president. There’s little incentive to drop out right now, but August will be crucial.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. is the front-runner, but a fragile one. And now he finds himself defending his ties to Barack Obama, whose legacy drew some criticism from other Democrats.
They can no longer afford the luxury of a smaller, less expensive welfare state.
Unemployment is low and growth is solid, but the president’s 2020 rivals are challenging the Trump economic record on several fronts.
With at least four candidates in strong contention for the nomination, the race is anyone’s to win.
Facing elimination in the next round, candidates sought to stand out by lashing out, and the network played up the drama.
While 20 presidential candidates debated this past week, far fewer are assured the chance of doing so again in September.
Sure, this week’s Democratic debates were full of substance. But the internet had its fun, too.
It’s hard getting to know everyone in such a crowded field. Here’s a dating app to make it easier.
And I find myself fretting that none of these Democrats can beat Donald Trump.
Our columnists and contributors give their rankings.
Senator Cory Booker entered the 2020 race preaching the gospel of “radical love.” Well, the love is gone.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Kamala Harris sparred while fending off attacks from fellow candidates on health care and criminal justice reform.
The former vice president had a lot to prove. To those who had written him off after the first debate, he had this to say: “malarkey.”
All of the candidates onstage closed the nearly three-hour Democratic debate by directing viewers to their websites. All except former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Does standing erect count as winning the day?
The Democratic rivals sparred on their respective criminal justice records in one of the tensest moments of the night.
The measure, a 1981 expansion of a child care tax credit, offered families a tax credit for the cost of child care. Here’s why Mr. Biden opposed it.
Speaking on the second night of the Democratic debates in Detroit, Ms. Gabbard highlighted Ms. Harris’s record as a prosector in San Francisco and as attorney general of California.
The Indiana city’s mayor, the presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, distanced himself from the housing agency in a statement.
The protest, aimed at Mayor Bill de Blasio, broke out during Senator Cory Booker’s opening statement. Separate protesters interrupted former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Mr. Biden, the front-runner, was confronted over his record on health care and criminal justice, and this time not just from Kamala Harris.
Our reporters are following all of the exchanges. They will be fact-checking the candidates and providing context and explanation for the policy debates.
Follow along live during the debate.
Follow the Democratic presidential debate with our reporters in real time.
Sure, it’s way too early to be thinking about running-mate pairings. But what the heck.
The candidates along the wings went hard after the night’s leading candidates, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Readers assess how the candidates did, suggest a different format and discuss “Medicare for all.”
At the Democratic debates in a humid Motor City, it wasn’t just the candidates who were on display and clamoring for attention.
With Joseph R. Biden Jr., Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker all onstage, candidates are likely to make direct appeals to the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituency.