Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Pres. Biden's new plan for combatting the spread of the COVID-19 delta variant.

Democratic Socialists insist their politics are different from the loaded ideology of the 20th century, but skeptics remain.

After initial plans to condemn anti-Semitism more specifically were scrapped, the U.S. House of Representatives' Democratic leadership opted for a more generic "anti-hate" measure.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg on Kavanaugh. Lili Loofbourow, Lisa Ryan, & Katie Cappiello on consent. Bill Irwin on "On Beckett." Paul Dano on his directorial debut.

A look at the "boys club" of D.C. through the eyes of a pioneering Senator who built her career in the 90s, and a journalist who’s been inside Washington for decades.

In 1997, Pittsburgh became the first city to sign a consent decree, offering a lesson in what sticks, and what doesn't, in reforming police departments.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions orders the Department of Justice to review all police reform agreements.

We speak to a retired coal miner in Kentucky on his hopes for the Trump presidency, and look at how the Democratic Party lost West Virginia. 

For the first time in history, more than 100 seats are now occupied by women, with 84 in the House and 20 in the Senate. But only two women are committee chairs. 

The Washington Post announced on Monday that is selling ownership of the paper to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million. The Graham family has owned control and editorial leaders...

As the Senate debates gun control for the first time in decades, we’re awash in stories we might never have heard but for Newtown. Brooke speaks with New York Times op-ed writer Joe Nocera, who's tracking gun violence daily on his blog The Gun Report. And Bob speaks with reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg about why we're stuck with anecdotes instead of data in the gun discussion.

 

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On Thursday, Vice President Biden sketched out early hints of what gun control reform might look like. One potential reform concerns something that you might mistakenly assume already exists: a central database of gun transactions in the US, maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. The NRA has blocked all such efforts in the past. New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg tells Bob why the ATF's record-keeping on gun sales is actually incredibly antiquated. 

Pollster describe elections like a horse race for a good reason: leads shrink, grow, and change hands, until at the very end, someone crosses the finish line first, and a winner is crowned.

John Zogby, president and CEO of polling firm Zogby International has been monitoring these changes in the final days leading up to Election Day.

Across the country, women are playing a big role in this year's mid-term elections, from Tea Party-backed Christine O'Donnell in Delaware to Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina in California and First Lady Michelle Obama, campaigning for embattled Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold, in Wisconsin.

The New York Times' chief political reporter, Michael Shear, and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the paper's White House correspondent, discuss some of the major players, and trends for women in this year's political landscape.

President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” according to the Nobel...

Tonight, the president will appear before a joint session of Congress—perhaps the grandest setting for such an event—and deliver a speech on the need for health care reform. Among tho...

After President Obama was elected there was much speculation over how his election would affect race relations here in the United States. Already, just one day shy of his 100th day in...

The Obama administration unveils its restructuring plan for the troubled auto industry today, and in a surprise move, GM's Chief Executive Rick Wagoner will be stepping down, too. For...

There’s huge debate over health care reform in this country and it may come as a surprise that one person in particular is not taking part in it: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. A...

"There will be quite a lot of tension in this meeting today because they have different world views." — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the New York Times