Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, said in a wide-ranging discussion on Wednesday night that he disagreed with President Trump “every single day,” mocked a fellow administration adviser and accused Republicans of hypocrisy over the budget deficit. Mr. Mulvaney, addressing a crowd of several hundred during a question-and-answer session with the Oxford […]Read More

Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Giovanni Russonello, your morning newsletter writer taking over your afternoon edition. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. At Wednesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, the candidates bickered and battled over health care policy; over Michael Bloomberg’s […]Read More

President Trump delivered a nationalistic cultural rant at his rally in Colorado on Thursday night, veering off script to attack the Academy Awards for giving the Best Picture Oscar to a South Korean film, “Parasite.” “How bad were the Academy Awards this year?” the president said, throwing up his hands as the crowd roared at […]Read More

A former Pentagon counterterrorism analyst pleaded guilty on Thursday to sharing classified information with two journalists, one of whom was his girlfriend. The former analyst, Henry Kyle Frese, 31, pleaded guilty in United States District Court in Eastern Virginia to willful transmission of top secret national defense information. He faces up to 10 years in […]Read More

WASHINGTON — For nearly 50 years, Roger J. Stone Jr. taunted the political gods of fate, unleashing a torrent of dirty tricks on behalf of President Trump and his other well-connected clients and daring his adversaries to come after him, certain that the pursuit would make him richer and famous. On Thursday, history may have […]Read More

SAN FRANCISCO — The average home in the United States costs around $240,000. But in San Francisco, the world’s most expensive place for construction, a two-bedroom apartment of what passes for affordable housing costs around $750,000 just to build. California’s staggering housing costs have become the most significant driver of inequality in the state. On […]Read More

“Voters expect women to be ‘above the fray.’” — Amanda Hunter, research director at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation [In Her Words is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox.] It was electric. It was fiery. It was feisty. The Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday […]Read More

Some Bloomberg advisers said it was a conscious choice to largely refrain from attacking anyone besides Mr. Sanders at the debate, reasoning that the Vermont senator is on the cusp of an unstoppable breakthrough if he wins in Nevada on Saturday and has a strong finish in South Carolina a week later. “We appear to […]Read More

LAS VEGAS — Flying to Las Vegas from Phoenix on Wednesday night on Air Force One, President Trump was glued to the Democratic presidential primary debate. He liked what he saw, and on Thursday morning, as strategists and pundits sifted through the aftermath, the president tweeted out his conclusion. “‘The real winner last night was […]Read More

LAS VEGAS — In the nearly two weeks since her standout debate performance in New Hampshire, the momentum behind Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota had encountered nary a pothole. With a stack of endorsements from local and national newspapers lured by her centrist platform, a surprising third-place finish in New Hampshire and a cash infusion […]Read More