The ongoing tax reform debate in Nigeria has sparked widespread resistance, exposing deep-seated regional tensions. Critics ...

Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Times Opinion columnist David French and Jack Goldsmith, a law professor at Harvard and a co-author of “After Trump: ...

The state saw high-profile figures vying for the White House, fierce debates over abortion and marijuana, and a controversial plan to turn state parks into golf courses.

When were the first debates held? The seven encounters between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858 are widely considered to be the first “presidential” debates—even though they ...

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a federal government shutdown.

Jill Biden has been acting aloof when around Kamala Harris, and now it seems that chilliness has extended to the vice ...

Someone or a group decided to commute 37 out of 40 death sentences in the federal penal system, but we really don’t know who.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Dec. 12 The Washington Post says Joe Biden shouldn't use preemptive pardons ...

In fact, it took Manatt and his successors a full dozen years plus a "moderate" governor from a southern state in the person ...

Eleven women and men convened in the Indiana House chamber to award the state's electoral votes to Donald Trump for president ...

The 2024 Presidential election has come to an end. People have finally stopped their unfollowing phase on Instagram and torn down their front yard political signs. While Donald Trump won the majority ...

Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.