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Two policy experts assess Vice President Kamala Harris' Latin American trip and the questions it raises about Harris’ strategy for reducing Central Americans' migration to the U.S.

The latest news, analysis and insights from our politics teams from Sacramento to D.C. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The infrastructure bill and the Jan. 6 commission represent the opposite ends of the scale of progress in a closely divided capital, ranging from possible glimmers of progress to gridlock. Relatively few issues so far have landed in the fully stuck category — a victory of sorts for Biden, who ran for pre...

Presidents try to control the agenda, but external events often derail the best-laid plans. Biden got a taste of that this week, and turned one potential crisis to his advantage.

The latest news, analysis and insights from our politics teams from Sacramento to D.C. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Pew began to study the comparison during Britain’s divisive debate over leaving the European Union and the campaign leading up to Donald Trump’s election as president. Researchers “really wanted to see what the concepts of nationalism and cosmopolitanism mean in the modern era,” said Pew’s Laur...

A president's first 100 days set the tone for the country — and online. Just look at Trump and Biden's internet search data.

Four years later, we can see how that turned out. It almost worked. Trump drove up turnout of his supporters to a level beyond what seemed possible in 2016, winning 74 million votes in his reelection effort. The strategy failed because he also drove up turnout of his opponents, motivating many of the 81 million who voted for Biden. Biden has taken a very different road. In his first day in office, he rescinded the travel ban, which was widely unpopular. And he took several other steps to disma...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. That’s especially true now. Republicans have gone from controlling the White House and both houses of Congress to having no control in just four years, making Trump the first Republican to suffer so thorough a reversal since Herbert Hoover in the Great Depression. But given the Democrats’ slender majorities in Congress and the usual pattern of the president’s party losing ground in th...

Tuesday, Jan. 19. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. As we start this new week with eyes turned toward Washington, the upcoming inauguration and all the change that is sure to follow, I want to take ...

Looking at my phone was difficult on Jan. 6, the day Trump-supporting terrorists, some armed, stormed the Capitol building while the Senate attempted to perform a ceremonial certification of President-elect

Joe Biden becomes the 46th president