Cathleen Decker

President-elect Donald Trump, accompanied by his family, arrives at a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 11, 2017.

President-elect Trump in news conference: At war with all sides

August 18, 2019 at 7:22 p.m.

Donald Trump on Wednesday displayed his essential political character: He is a man apart, rebelling against both the political party he defeated and the one he ostensibly leads. That positioning,...

Hillary Clinton conceded to Donald Trump on Nov. 9 in New York City.

After Clinton’s defeat, what’s the path for future women presidential candidates?

August 22, 2019 at 2:27 a.m.

The first woman president was supposed to make history by accumulating such deep experience that few could deny her ability to serve as commander in chief. Hillary Clinton did that,...

President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak to supporters at a rally held in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Dec. 9.

American voters wanted change in 2016, but will they get the change they wanted?

August 22, 2019 at 2:26 a.m.

Nothing about the 2016 presidential election was predictable — not the purloined emails, vulgar videotaped bragging, the insults flung every which way, or the riotous, raucous ascent of a reality...

Five weeks before becoming president, Donald Trump once again is spreading falsehood

August 22, 2019 at 2:22 a.m.

Dawn had barely broken Thursday when Donald Trump once again broadcast via Twitter a provably false claim: that the Obama administration had not raised an alarm about Russian interference in...

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, left, and Trump campaign Chief Executive Officer Stephen K. Bannon.

Fight to define Trump’s presidency will be waged between two competing factions

August 22, 2019 at 1:54 a.m.

Fresh from a successful battle against a Democratic opponent, Donald Trump's attention must now turn to defining his presidency. His campaign offered two divergent approaches. He was a disruptive rabble-rouser...

For reeling Democrats, now what?

June 20, 2019 at 12:27 a.m.

As they struggled through the wreckage of one of their worst election nights in memory, Democrats faced a brutal reckoning over how the party, soon to be out of power...

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders embrace during a campaign rally in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday.

Win or lose tomorrow, the Democrats face a serious battle over identity

June 2, 2019 at 10:01 p.m.

The roaring crowds and displays of Democratic unity around Hillary Clinton as the campaign ends have obscured a bumpier reality: Whatever happens Tuesday, Democrats face a struggle to define themselves....

Supporters of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump listen to the first of three presidential debates, on Sept. 26, 2016 at the Trump headquarters in Urbandale, Iowa.

Across America, the end of the election looms with a question: What now?

August 22, 2019 at 1:49 a.m.

Across the broad swath of America that will decide the next president, the mood is bleak. An uncivil war of rhetoric and resentments has scoured the country, unearthing deep ruptures....

Jessica Drake looks towards attorney Gloria Allred during a press conference to accuse Donald Trump of past inappropriate sexual conduct toward her on Oct. 22 in Los Angeles. Drake, an adult actress, says Trump offered to pay her $10,000 for sex in 2006 and harassed her with repeated phone calls.

Who’s helping Clinton make this another ‘Year of the Woman’? Mostly, it’s Trump

August 22, 2019 at 1:43 a.m.

In the closing stretch of the presidential race, Hillary Clinton is trying to harness women's anger over Donald Trump's behavior into a surge of support for her and other female...

Supporters cheer Donald Trump at the county fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio, on Oct. 19, 2016.

This election pits Trump vs. Clinton and old America vs. new America

August 22, 2019 at 1:37 a.m.

The contrast in the 2016 presidential election was as evident Thursday as it has ever been: Donald Trump spoke to a largely white audience in Ohio, a state that has...

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