In Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech at the Democratic convention this past summer in Chicago, she sought to cast herself in thoroughly relatable terms. “The middle class is where I come from,” she said, using “middle class” eight more times, as if trying to weave herself into the center of an …
Read More »Opinion | The Risk of Trump’s Old Age
What should we think as Donald Trump urges people to vote in January, confuses places and names, fumbles for words, simplifies his speech patterns, describes recent experiences that did not happen and in public seems increasingly vulgar, menacing and unfiltered? When President Biden showed his age and stumbled through the …
Read More »Opinion | Democrats Finally Did What Sherrod Brown Asked For. It Might Be Too Late.
Twelve years ago, Senator Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat, took the stage at his election night party in Columbus to celebrate winning a second term. Barack Obama had just carried Ohio for the second time, after emphasizing his administration’s rescue of the auto industry. Mr. Brown wanted to proclaim that …
Read More »Florida Farmworker Who Suffered Heat Strokes Is Stunned at Ban on Outdoor Protections
The heat stroke that José Delgado suffered six years ago after working in a sweet potato field in South Florida left him with damaged kidneys. It happened again two years later. His doctor, he said, warned that his heart might not survive another episode. He is 75 now and still …
Read More »Trump Attacks Bipartisan Semiconductor Law, a Key Policy Achievement for Biden
Former President Donald J. Trump on Friday blasted the CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan law aimed at reducing America’s reliance on Asia for semiconductors by providing billions in subsidies to encourage companies to manufacture more chips in the United States. “That chip deal is so bad,” Mr. Trump said …
Read More »Biden Administration Floats Student Loan Relief for Borrowers Facing Hardship
The Biden administration has proposed another student debt relief plan for eight million people who cannot repay their loans because of “financially devastating hardships,” Miguel A. Cardona, the secretary of education, said on Friday. The proposal, which will almost certainly face legal challenges, builds on the administration’s strategy of finding …
Read More »Biden Apologizes for U.S. Abuse of Indian Children, Calling It ‘a Sin on Our Soul’
President Biden ventured into Native American territory on Friday to offer a formal apology on behalf of the U.S. government for the mistreatment of generations of children who were taken away from their families in an effort to strip them of their culture, history and language. During a visit to …
Read More »The White House Bet Big on Intel. Will It Backfire?
At an annual gathering of tech executives and billionaires in Sun Valley, Idaho, this past July, Gina Raimondo commandeered a table near a duck pond and tried to exert her influence as the U.S. secretary of commerce to help rescue an ailing national champion. As media moguls and business luminaries …
Read More »Biden Administration Outlines Government ‘Guardrails’ for A.I. Tools
President Biden on Thursday signed the first national security memorandum detailing how the Pentagon, the intelligence agencies and other national security institutions should use and protect artificial intelligence technology, putting “guardrails” on how such tools are employed in decisions varying from nuclear weapons to granting asylum. The new document is …
Read More »Biden to Apologize for Indian Boarding Schools Where Hundreds of Children Died
President Biden on Friday will formally apologize for the role of the federal government in running boarding schools where thousands of Native American children faced abuse, neglect and the erasure of their tribal identities. “I’m heading to do something that should have been done a long time ago, to make …
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