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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Wants Fellow Democrats to Look in the Mirror

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who is on track to win re-election in a rural Washington district, says her party needs to stop demonizing others and change the candidates it supports.

© M. Scott Brauer for The New York Times

“The fundamental mistake people make is condescension,” Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez said. “A lot of elected officials get calloused to the ways that they’re disrespecting people.”

Will Trump Have a New Opening to Repeal the ACA?

Even without congressional action, a second Trump administration will likely support major changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, affecting millions of Americans.

© Tim Gruber for The New York Times

President-elect Donald J. Trump may try to kill off the Affordable Care Act, which he wasn’t able to do in his first term.

Transgender Americans Voice New Anxiety About Trump Agenda

President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised to “keep men out of women’s sports” and withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender transition treatment to minors.

© Dave Sanders for The New York Times

For many transgender Americans, the experience of being invoked by political candidates as a symbol of absurdity or an object of disgust has taken a toll.

Trump’s Energy Policies May Be a Mixed Bag for Oil Companies

The president-elect has promised to make it easier to build energy infrastructure and secure drilling leases. But higher production could hurt prices and profits.

© Brittany Greeson for The New York Times

President-elect Donald J. Trump, shown at a rally in August, has urged companies to “drill, baby, drill” and pledged to cut energy bills by at least half, without specifying how.

Could Trump’s Tariffs Lead to Higher Prices? Here’s What to Know.

The president-elect says that tariff is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” You may be hearing it a lot.

© Adam Kuehl for The New York Times

President-elect Donald J. Trump has argued that steep tariffs on foreign goods will benefit U.S. manufacturing and create jobs, but many economists have warned that such a move may lead to higher costs and globally destabilizing trade wars.

Trump’s Tax Proposals Face a Fiscal Reckoning

Advisers to President-elect Donald J. Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill are already looking at ways to scale back some of his more expensive ideas.

© Nicole Craine for The New York Times

President-elect Donald J. Trump proposed a slew of loosely defined tax cuts during his campaign, but lawmakers and his advisers are undecided about how much they will lower taxes again.

After Harris’s Election Loss, Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game

In interviews, lawmakers and strategists tried to explain Kamala Harris’s defeat, pointing to misinformation, the Gaza war, a toxic Democratic brand and the party’s approach to transgender issues.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Vice President Kamala Harris performed worse than President Biden did four years ago across the country, in cities, suburbs and rural towns.

Trump’s 2nd-Term Agenda Could Transform Government and Foreign Affairs

The president-elect could reshape government and may dramatically transform foreign and domestic policy in a second term.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Without establishment Republicans and military veterans surrounding him, President-elect Donald J. Trump could find it easier to move ahead with his plans, particularly if his party wins the House.

For Black Women, ‘America Has Revealed to Us Her True Self’

Kamala Harris’s resounding defeat affirmed the worst of what many Black women believed about their country, even as some looked to the future with a wary determination.

© Maansi Srivastava for The New York Times

Vice President Kamala Harris held her election-night party at Howard University, the historically Black institution in Washington she once attended. The mood quickly grew bleak as results arrived.
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