Today's Times
- President Obama is taking a new approach to budget talks this time around, meeting with business leaders and rallying the public to support a deficit-cutting accord that mixes tax increases on the wealthy with spending cuts, Jackie Calmes writes.
- The growth of unlimited fund-raising and the move of outside groups to the mainstream of politics have magnified the role of money in political campaigns, with Mr. Obama's re-election victory likely to reinforce the practice, Nicholas Confessore reports.
- The 2012 election exposed the Republican Party's vulnerability to potent demographic shifts, setting the stage for a struggle between those determined to rebrand the party in a softer light and those yearning instead for ideological purity, Kevin Sack and Sarah Wheaton report.
 Happening in Washington
- The Library of Congress will open the exhibition “The Civil War in America,†commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
