Justices Side With Free-Speech Challenge to Credit Card Fees

By ADAM LIPTAK March 29, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the First Amendment applies to a New York law concerning credit card fees. The decision was a victory for five businesses that had sought to tell their customers that...

Trump’s Raves About Chicago Have Become Rants

By JULIE BOSMAN and MONICA DAVEY March 29, 2017 CHICAGO — Donald J. Trump’s feelings about Chicago couldn’t have been clearer. He loved the place. It was 2004, and Mr. Trump, then a developer and reality show star, was waging a...

5 Reasons Trump’s Promised Tax Overhaul Won’t Be So Easy

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS March 28, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump’s failure to push through the broad health care overhaul he promised has raised questions about the prospects of a sweeping rewrite of the tax code. It is a politically...

Economic Scene: ‘Carnage’ Indeed, but Trump’s Policies Would Make It Worse

March 28, 2017 Eduardo Porter ECONOMIC SCENE Donald J. Trump can be brilliant. On the campaign trail, his diagnosis of the raw anger and disillusionment among white working-class Americans bested the most sophisticated analyses from the professional political class....

White House to States: Shield the Undocumented and Lose Police Funding

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and CHARLIE SAVAGE March 27, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, signaling its intent to toughen enforcement of immigration laws across the country, threatened on Monday to withhold or revoke law...

Democrats, Buoyed by G.O.P. Health Defeat, See No Need to Offer Hand

By JONATHAN MARTIN March 26, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump, looking for a flicker of hope after his Republican majority fell to pieces last week, predicted that the opposition party would eventually give in: “I honestly believe the Democrats...