How Student Loan Forgiveness Changed Graduates’ Paths

By CAITLIN DICKERSON June 7, 2017 For Dr. Charles Phillips, the government’s public service loan forgiveness program meant he could spend his days researching childhood cancer, rather than starting a lucrative pediatrics practice. Neeraj Kumar plans to...

White House Memo: 16 Years Later, Bush’s Climate Pact Exit Holds Lessons for Trump

White House Memo By PETER BAKER June 4, 2017 WASHINGTON — The new president decided that the international climate change agreement negotiated by his predecessor was a job killer that sacrificed American sovereignty. So he pulled the United States out...

From Maine, a Call for a More Measured Take on Health Care

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER June 4, 2017 BANGOR, Me. — Hundreds of miles from the health care debate that will begin again this week in Congress, lobstermen here are out in force, bees are furiously pollinating the state’s famous blueberries and...

How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science

By CORAL DAVENPORT and ERIC LIPTON June 3, 2017 WASHINGTON — The campaign ad appeared during the presidential contest of 2008. Rapid-fire images of belching smokestacks and melting ice sheets were followed by a soothing narrator who praised a...

Trump Plans to Shift Infrastructure Funding to Cities, States and Business

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and KATE KELLY June 3, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump will lay out a vision this coming week for sharply curtailing the federal government’s funding of the nation’s infrastructure and calling upon...

Trump Said to Pick Nominees for 2 Positions on Fed Board

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM and KATE KELLY June 2, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has selected candidates for at least two of the three open positions on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, according to people with direct...