The meme was everywhere. It showed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi looking like a winner, cigarette in one hand, cocktail in the other, READ MORE

Elizabeth Holtzman, a former member of the Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach President Richard Nixon in 1974, warned ThursdREAD MORE

Crowds were filing out of Broadway theaters Tuesday evening when a series of loud booms and cracks filled the air. Firecrackers? GuREAD MORE

Eleanor Pelta has secured Polish passports for herself and her two sons. Stephanie Schwab is planning an escape route via Spain. ElREAD MORE

Eli Kadkhoda was bouncing around his West Los Angeles living room, jumping from cushion to cushion on the sprawling L-shaped couch READ MORE

The abortion ban approved Tuesday night by the Alabama Senate and signed into law Wednesday by Republican Governor Kay Ivey is moreREAD MORE

At the start of our societal reckoning over the bad behavior of men, the red lines were clear. The bad guys were easy to identify, READ MORE

Presidential elections are decided by many things: media exposure, financial backing, personal chemistry, timing and luck. Policy pREAD MORE

For many American women, these are times when they are feeling seen and being heard.

More women ran for office in 2018 than everREAD MORE

Once each week, I picked up the list on my desk and called all the phone numbers.

“Do you have it in?” I asked, followed by, “Do yREAD MORE

Although this is the first time she has ever been in this room, there are signs of her everywhere. It’s in the family crest on theREAD MORE

The abortion rights movement in the United States is finding much to celebrate in the midterm elections, though activists concede tREAD MORE

In the ghastly scrapbook of tragedy, this will be the one where the victims were older. At Sandy Hook, they were first-graders. At READ MORE

The record number of women running for office this midterm election year has led to a record number of races in which both major-paREAD MORE

A record number of women have entered primaries for local, state and national office this year, creating an expectation among activREAD MORE

Brandishing a wire coat hanger, New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon took the podium at a rally against the nomination ofREAD MORE

A photo of Nison (aka Max) Miller stares out from the screen, sullen and stern, in faded black and white. “Order of Court Denying PREAD MORE

Two school admissions policies made news last week for opposite reasons — Harvard University, because it is accused of admitting toREAD MORE

When the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to an Arkansas law effectively banning medication abortions (the “abortion pillREAD MORE

Meghan Milloy’s mission is to get more Republican women in office. As co-founder and executive director of Republican Women for ProREAD MORE

The first time it happened, we blamed the students. It was their generation’s fault, we the grown-ups told them — all that bullyingREAD MORE

Melania Trump is not in Davos today. She was planning to go — her office had already announced that she would be there to “support READ MORE

The marchers stretched for 30 city blocks along Central Park West, from its starting point in front of the Trump International HoteREAD MORE

Jocelyn Duke treats her memory of that day as a talisman, taking it out when the actual moment feels distant, turning it this way aREAD MORE

There is a melody to national tragedy, to national grieving. It starts with shock, segues to fear and anger, crescendos with memoriREAD MORE

“64 hours in October” is a firsthand account of the drama that unfolded, Oct. 7-9, 2016, from the release of the infamous Access HoREAD MORE

Mary Klein hopes the government will hurry up and let her die.

It’s not that she wants her life to end. To the contrary, she says,READ MORE

David Kord Murray, the owner of a small business-finance company in California, admits he likes to be different — “to take the contREAD MORE

Somewhere in a suburban New York basement there is a small, unused bag of marijuana, a last attempt to help an elderly father in hiREAD MORE

It was Thanksgiving afternoon in Madison, Conn., four years ago, and the Cecchi family was getting ready for dinner. Just before thREAD MORE

On the night when the nearly 200 volunteers from the Holy Trinity Catholic Church should have been greeting their family of refugeeREAD MORE

The tweet was simple but promised a very complicated future:

“Any government official who refuses to execute Trump’s orders on groREAD MORE

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the second day in a row, the dozen women were up and out before dawn.

On Friday morning they had done so inREAD MORE

When the group of a dozen women arrive at the staging spot for the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday morning — just after dawREAD MORE

Already the unprecedented has become routine, the unthinkable has a pattern.

It goes something like this: The president-elect of tREAD MORE

A few days after the election I was running some errands in my neighborhood. On impulse I turned into the driveway of what the wholREAD MORE

I had noticed the house every day as I drove home. In my mostly Democratic suburb of New York City, it was hard to miss, with its TREAD MORE

SOUND ROCK SIOUX PROTEST VILLAGE, N.D. — Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, stepped out of her small tent at the READ MORE

There has been a change these past few days, a shift in the conversation as many who have kept quiet about their views in this presREAD MORE

It was well past lunch on a highway in California near the start of Memorial Day weekend, and the reporters on the Bernie Sanders pREAD MORE

This is a story about how Donald Trump made a pass at me. And about what that does and does not mean as he runs for president.

In READ MORE