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Credit…Desiree Rios for The New York Times If you want a sense of what separates much of the leadership of the Democratic Party from many of its supporters — of what illustrates their profound disconnect from younger cohorts of liberal and progressive voters — you could do much worse than to read this recent statement…
Yahoo Answers is not what most people would call a good source of information. On Monday morning, the top questions on its homepage, as decided by its users, included whether the Democratic Party would eventually initiate some kind of genocide, whether Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were really in love, why small dogs were “the…
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in April.CreditCreditEric Thayer for The New York Times Joseph R. Biden Jr. was addressing an elite audience, describing how as a young senator he had learned to work with Jesse Helms, the right-wing North Carolinian known for his fierce opposition…
Image“We left Egypt, and now we’re leaving the Democratic Party,” Elizabeth Pipko said.CreditCreditAlfredo Chiarappa for The New York Times WASHINGTON — At 23, Elizabeth Pipko has branded herself on social media as a onetime figure skater, a part-time poet and a former Trump campaign aide, an Instagramista whose feed spotlights her Mar-a-Lago wedding and racy…
Erin Schaff/New York Times The Senate Judiciary panel will hear further testimony on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court on Thursday. By Annie Linskey and Jess Bidgood Globe Staff September 26, 2018 leading video or graphic inside story_update.jpt In Story Photo or Graphic Section paragraphs 35 leadingContainer photo leadingShape horizontal hasRBox true WASHINGTON —…
Howard Schultz, the executive chairman of the coffee empire Starbucks, hinted upon announcing his coming resignation that a run for public office was in his future. And in a subsequent interview with CNBC, he outlined the type of ideological portfolio that would animate such a run. “It concerns me that so many voices within the…
Republicans Go Nuclear, and Senators Point Fingers Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democrat leader, called the nuclear option “the end of a long history of consensus on Supreme Court nominations” that weakened the Senate’s check on the president’s ability to shape the judiciary. Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, accused the Democrats of an “unprecedented partisan…
Trump supporters at a rally in Iowa last January. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Knoxville, Iowa — One recent morning, I sat near two young men at a coffee shop here whom I’ve known since they were little boys. Now about 18, they pushed away from the table, and one said: “Let’s…
Photo Anythony Weiner at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Huma Abedin, the wife of the former Representative Anthony D. Weiner, announced on Monday that the couple were separating in the wake of a report that Mr. Weiner had been involved in another sexting scandal. Mr. Weiner,…