Michelle Obama made the case for Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday night in Kalamazoo, Mich., with a striking speech about the consequences that the election will have for women’s bodies and reproductive health. Here are excerpts: “Do not put our lives in the hands of politicians, mostly men.” “I …
Read More »Michelle Obama Makes a Searing Appeal to Men: ‘Take Our Lives Seriously’
Michelle Obama issued an impassioned plea to American voters on Saturday — and, in particular, American men — anchored in a searing and intimate depiction of women’s bodies and reproductive health, and what she described as the life-or-death stakes of returning former President Donald J. Trump to power. In her …
Read More »What If Hillary Clinton Won in 2016?
“Hillary Clinton is our next president. How do you think the founding mothers would feel if they heard the news?” So began an essay by Gail Collins for a special section of The New York Times that was to have been published Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, two days after the …
Read More »The Rise of Kamala Harris Is Atypical and Distinctly American
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 »Mayor Adams Bucks Harris and Democrats on Calling Trump a ‘Fascist’
Mayor Eric Adams of New York said on Saturday that former President Donald J. Trump should not be called a “fascist” or compared to Adolf Hitler, a rejection of Democrats’ closing focus in the final days of the 2024 campaign on the eve of Mr. Trump’s rally in Midtown Manhattan. …
Read More »Opinion | How Bad Do You Want It, Ladies?
Usually, I get political wisdom from Rahm Emanuel, not his brother Ari. But a quote from Ari, the Hollywood macher, to Puck’s Matthew Belloni about the gender chasm in 2024 caught my eye. “This election is gonna come down to probably 120,000 votes,” Ari said. “You probably have 60 percent …
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 »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 »What to Know About the Chinese Hackers Who Targeted the 2024 Campaigns
A sophisticated breach of American telecommunications systems has extended to the presidential campaigns, raising questions about the group behind the attack and the extent of its efforts at collecting intelligence. It was unclear what data was taken in the attack. The far-reaching operation has been linked to the Chinese government …
Read More »Barricades and Bulletproof Glass: A County Prepares for Election Day
With northeastern Pennsylvania awash again in the reds and oranges of a dazzling autumn, workers recently planted boulders around a government building in downtown Wilkes-Barre to address a seasonal ugliness. But this was no beautification project. Luzerne County is bracing for Election Day. Across the country, the doubts and anger …
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