Leonard Leo stepped onto the stage in a darkened Florida ballroom, looked out at a gathering of some of the nation's most powerful conservative activists and told them they were on the cusp of ...

Read The New Yorker’s complete news coverage and analysis of the coronavirus pandemic. Virtually every existing American publication is contending with the coronavirus, in some way, in its pages. But ...

It seems like ancient history, but it was only 15 years ago that Hillary Clinton appeared on the Today show and accused Republicans of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” to take down President Bill ...

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In the early Reagan years, religious right movement leaders Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell knew that they could not solely rely on fickle politicians to implement their plan on a national scale. They ...

It’s rush hour on a November evening in Washington’s busiest regional rail hub, but swarming commuters must yield to a much more potent tide. The Federalist Society has taken over the Main Hall of ...

President Donald Trump said the Federalist Society gave him “bad advice” on judicial nominations. He’s still appointing their members to the federal bench anyway. On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary ...

The Stanford student sent a satirical flier that drew a complaint from the conservative group. The university then placed a hold on his diploma. By Neil Vigdor It was the final day of classes at ...