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The dizzying events of the past week have pushed to the sidelines the congressional squabbling over President Biden’s domestic agenda, and are already redefining the arc of his presidency. Throughout…
When the Russian leader ordered his nuclear forces into “special combat readiness,” the U.S. could have gone on high alert. Instead, the administration tried not to inflame him. Svetlana Akimova,…
William P. Barr’s memoir of his time as attorney general under George H.W. Bush and then again under Donald J. Trump defends his more recent leadership of the Justice Department.…
The Justice Department will have its first opportunity in a courtroom to show how the violent chaos that erupted at the Capitol last year disrupted the peaceful transfer of power.…
The former president made inaccurate claims about his border wall, the Biden administration and a Russian pipeline, among other topics. Former President Donald Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference…
Feb. 26, 2022, 5:0
The annual gathering of American conservatives reflected the G.O.P’s shift away from policy issues that had traditionally animated the party. CPAC attendees watching a panel moderated by the author Candace…
Leonard Peltier, sentenced to two life terms 45 years ago in the shooting of two F.B.I. agents, is now 77 and in poor health. Supporters carried a large painting of…
Not since John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev confronted each other over Berlin and Cuba have an American president and Russian leader gone eyeball to eyeball in quite such…
Ambitious lawyers usually become prosecutors. Ketanji Brown Jackson worked on behalf of criminal defendants and Guantánamo detainees. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s work as a public defender has drawn questions from…