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close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Matt Lauer with Hillary Clinton at the NBC News “Commander-in-Chief Forum” in September 2016. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Matt Lauer, like Charlie Rose and Mark Halperin before him, is a journalist out of a job after his employer fired him for sexually harassing female…
Photo Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Credit Max Whittaker for The New York Times By Daniel K. Williams 2016-11-09T21:38:07-05:00 November 9, 2016 9:38 PM ET Donald J. Trump was elected with a higher percentage of the white evangelical vote than any other Republican presidential candidate has ever received, and he has received strong support from prominent Christian…
Members of the secret Facebook group Pantsuit Nation gathered in front of the White House to take pictures and show support on Election Day for Hillary Clinton. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times When Libby Chamberlain, the creator of the pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook group Pantsuit Nation, announced this week that she plans to publish a…
James Dowson, a far-right political activist, ran a constellation of websites out of the United Kingdom. Credit Rex Features, via Associated Press The Patriot News Agency website popped up in July, soon after it became clear that Donald J. Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination, bearing a logo of a red, white and blue…
close story-meta A filing cabinet broken into in 1972 as part of the Watergate burglary now sits beside a computer server that Russian hackers breached during the 2016 presidential campaign, both now on display in the basement of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in Washington. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times WASHINGTON…
Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher of The New York Times and some editors, columnists and reporters at the paper. As The Times reported, Trump actually seemed to soften some of his positions: He seemed to indicate that he wouldn’t seek to prosecute Hillary Clinton. But he should never…
close story-meta-footer Photo Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, with Beyoncé and Jay Z at a rally in Cleveland on Friday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times I feel bad for anyone who still hasn’t learned to speak Beyoncé. Her language is the body. It’s stagecraft. It’s Instagram posts. She doesn’t speak; she signifies. And…
close story-meta Photo Donald Trump speaking in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Donald Trump and other embattled Republican candidates are resorting to a particularly bizarre and dangerous tactic in the closing days of the campaign — warning that they may well seek to impeach Hillary Clinton if she wins, or, short…
close story-meta Photo Credit Javier Jaén On Nov. 8, Americans may elect our first female president. While many of us are exhilarated at the idea of this feminist victory, the toll we’ve paid for coming so close to that historic barrier has been the most graphically sexist election in living memory. What this campaign has…
Security personnel hauled away an apparent protester at a Donald J. Trump campaign rally in Bridgeport, Conn., in April. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Two operatives who were working in conjunction with the Democratic National Committee to help elect Hillary Clinton are no longer working in that role after an undercover video showed them…