By Shirley Leung, Boston Globe, November 21,2024 Ever since Donald Trump’s reelection, a word typically used to describe the economy of Russia is being applied to the United States: oligarchy. Yes, our capitalist system has been minting billionaires for decades, and they’ve long used campaign donations to cozy up to politicians. But with Trump retaking
Vice President Kamala Harris — Resources President Biden has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him. Below is a list of VP Harris’ qualifications and accomplishments. Kamala Harris’ qualifications: Vice President of the United States (2021 – Present) See extensive list of accomplishments below President of the US Senate (2021 – Present) Set a
By Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana (ProPublica), CNN.com, November 3,2024 Editor’s note: This story was originally published by ProPublica. Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood
By Stephen Collinson, CNN, November 3, 2024 The tumultuous 2024 election is ending with a contrast that encapsulates America’s fateful choice on election eve. Ex-President Donald Trump is darkening what is already the most dystopian closing argument in modern American history and flinging new and baseless claims that Democrats are cheating. Vice President Kamala Harris,
By Jill Abramson, The Boston Globe, October 26, 2024 In 2017, the Washington Post, under a more emboldened Bezos, unveiled its new slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” On Friday the Post hid what should have been a principled presidential endorsement in darkness. Democracy died in broad daylight on Friday when Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos
By Scot Lehigh, The Boston Globe, October 25, 2024 Americans who value democracy owe General John Kelly their gratitude for going public with information instrumental to an informed voting decision as this chaotic presidential campaign careens toward its close. Kelly, who first served as Donald Trump’s secretary of Homeland Security and then became his longest-serving
By Renée Graham, The Boston Globe, October 23, 2024. Call it normalizing or ‘sanewashing,’ but covering the former president as if he’s an ordinary nominee is journalistic malpractice. Donald Trump did not work the fry station in a McDonald’s on Sunday. He donned an apron, but the suburban Philadelphia restaurant was closed to the public.
By Greg Sargent and Michael ‘Tomasky, The New Republic, October 23, 2024. Last month, a GOP-friendly polling firm presented itself, and its data, in a highly unusual way. Rather than maintain a nominally neutral public-facing profile, this pollster acted more like a cavalry brigade for Donald Trump’s campaign. And the firm did so explicitly, openly,
By Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, October 19,2024 WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Friday accused former President Donald Trump of accepting “hundreds of unconstitutional and ethically suspect payments’’ through the Trump International Hotel in 2017 and 2018, moving weeks before the election to remind voters of the ethical issues raised by his refusal to
By Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Boston Globe, October. We can see the decline in the former president’s ability to hold a train of thought, speak coherently, or demonstrate a command of the English language, to say nothing of policy. So why are Republicans and the press holding Trump to a different standard than Biden? Donald Trump
By Liam Reilly and Brian Stelter, CNN.com, October 18, 2024. “To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid.” That’s what a federal judge wrote Thursday as he sided with local TV stations in an extraordinary dispute over a pro-abortion rights television ad. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker of the Northern District
By Adam NagourneyRuth Igielnik and Camille Baker, The New York Times, October 8, 2024. Voters are now more likely to credit Vice President Kamala Harris than Donald J. Trump with representing change and caring about people like them, as Ms. Harris takes a slim lead nationally in the race for the White House, according
By Peter Baker and Dylan Freedman Videos by Chevaz Clarke and Aaron Byrd, The New York Times, October 6, 2024. Former President Donald J. Trump vividly recounted how the audience at his climactic debate with Vice President Kamala Harris was on his side. Except that there was no audience. The debate was held in an
The Editorial Board, The New York Times, September 30, 2024. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than
By Scot Lehigh, The Boston Globe, September 25, 2024. As the presidential campaign makes the fall turn into the home stretch, the focus is on folderol at the expense of the fundamental. Every homeowner knows that when it comes to preserving your home, it’s more important to repair the rot in your sills or the
By Jim Puzzanghera, The Boston Globe, September 24, 2024 WASHINGTON — Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld said he felt pretty lonely in 2020 as a Republican openly opposed to then-president Donald Trump, running a quixotic primary campaign against him and then announcing he voted for Democrat Joe Biden. Four years later, Weld’s got more company.
By Renée Graham, The Boston Globe, September 18, 2024. For months, Springfield, Ohio, officials touted its annual CultureFest as an opportunity to “celebrate the rich ethnic diversity and heritage in our city, collaborate with global-minded Springfield residents,’’ and “cultivate a welcoming city for people from around the world.’’ That was before Donald Trump and Republican Senator
By Michael Ettlinger, The Boston Globe, September 9,2024. What would happen if 22 percent of America’s farmworkers vanished from the workforce? Would workers from across the country flock to the cotton fields of Texas, the sugar fields of Florida, and the peanut farms of Georgia to take low-paying jobs in the blazing heat? Or would
By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, August 19,1924. On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first big economic policy speech as the Democratic presidential nominee. It was, of course, very different from the “economic” speech and news conferences Donald Trump has held in the past couple of weeks. For one thing, Harris actually outlined her economic proposals, rather than
By Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe, August 19, 2024. This went way beyond creepy long ago. The extremists who run the GOP are obsessed with our uteri. Like, weirdly obsessed. Their fixation is about more than forcing women to give birth whether we want to or not, though Lord knows they are plenty concerned with that.
Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times, August 16, 2024. The most consequential moment from Donald Trump’s glitchy interview with Elon Musk on Monday came during a discussion of government cost-cutting. “Well, you, you’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk, before launching, apropos of nothing, into a reverie about how Musk dominates his employees. “They go