Trump’s Embrace of Racially Charged Past Puts Republicans in Crisis

The president’s response to the Charlottesville violence has drawn starkly different reactions between his core supporters and party leaders who fear political oblivion.

U.S. Begins Nafta Negotiations With Harsh Words

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM August 16, 2017 WASHINGTON — The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement is off to a rocky start. The Trump administration lectured Canada and Mexico on the failures of the current agreement at an opening news...

Trump Defends Initial Remarks on Charlottesville; Again Blames ‘Both Sides’

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MAGGIE HABERMAN August 15, 2017 President Trump angrily defended himself on Tuesday against criticism that he did not specifically condemn Nazi and white supremacist groups following the weekend’s deadly racial...

Trump Threat to Obamacare Would Send Premiums and Deficits Higher

By ROBERT PEAR and THOMAS KAPLAN August 15, 2017 WASHINGTON — Premiums for the most popular health insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year, and federal budget deficits would increase by $194 billion in the coming decade, if...

Economic Scene: It’s the Economy, Democrats, but Inequality Is Not the Issue

August 15, 2017 Eduardo Porter ECONOMIC SCENE ASPEN, Colo. — Is income inequality the defining challenge of our time? Bernie Sanders thinks so. He ran for president as inequality’s most ardent foe. So does Elizabeth Warren, the other champion of the...

White House Acts to Stem Fallout From Trump’s First Charlottesville Remarks

By GLENN THRUSH August 13, 2017 BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The White House, under siege over President Trump’s equivocal response to this weekend’s bloody white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Va., on Sunday condemned “white...