States Lead the Fight Against Trump’s Birth Control Rollback

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG June 9, 2017 WASHINGTON — Not long after President Trump took the oath of office, a busload of women’s health advocates made the first of a series of 860-mile round trips from Las Vegas to the Nevada capital, Carson...

The Single-Payer Party? Democrats Shift Left on Health Care

By ALEXANDER BURNS and JENNIFER MEDINA June 3, 2017 For years, Republicans savaged Democrats for supporting the Affordable Care Act, branding the law — with some rhetorical license — as a government takeover of health care. Now, cast...

Rebuked Twice by Supreme Court, North Carolina Republicans Are Unabashed

By MICHAEL WINES May 27, 2017 RALEIGH, N.C. — In Washington, efforts by this state’s Republicans to cement their political dominance have taken a drubbing this month. On May 15, the Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina elections law that a...

New Orleans Removes Beauregard Statue, and Subdued Crowds Look On

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON May 17, 2017 NEW ORLEANS — A little after 9 p.m. on Tuesday, a crane was hauled to the entrance of City Park, signaling that the final retreat of the Confederate general Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard had begun. It took some...

Texas Immigration Bill Draws Protesters to the State Capitol

By DAVE MONTGOMERY and MANNY FERNANDEZ May 1, 2017 AUSTIN, Tex. — About two dozen demonstrators held a daylong sit-in at a state building on the grounds of the Texas Capitol on Monday to oppose legislation that would ban so-called sanctuary...