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The Times’s strategy? Link Kamala Harris ever more closely to identity politics. The Times’s Sunday, October 27, print edition featured a front-page story on Harris’s longstanding “equity efforts.” We ...

Perhaps the deepest learning of my college years came from rooming with someone who held radically different political views from mine. My sophomore-year roommate and I fought fiercely for the ...

After covering the 2024 campaign cycle, here are five points and eight charts that can help explain where American politics is today, and perhaps where it’s going. How close? Start with the ...

While the greatest political story of our lifetimes may be playing out in the 2024 presidential contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, there was a time ...

Today, journalists from across the newsroom discuss how the political conversation affects their beat. It takes a village — or several desks at The New York Times — to provide round-the-clock ...

Joe Dwinell Gov. Baker may not like to talk about politics these days but he’s been politically active Even if Gov. Charlie Baker apparently doesn’t like to talk about politics anymore after ...

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report on Friday shifted six House races toward Democrats and two contests toward the GOP in its final update before Election Day. The election handicapper moved Rep.

Now, in the final weeks of the campaign, researchers have just published new findings about the social lives of people who are likely to endorse using political violence, and be willing to use it ...

Election polls can’t foretell who will win the presidential election. They’re inherently imprecise. They carry the potential for error. All that being the case ...

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