A Republican House member from Michigan openly mused during a town hall last week about wiping out Gaza, telling his constituents that “it should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.” “Get it over quick,” Representative Tim Walberg said, according to a video that emerged online from the March 25 event in Dundee, Mich. His remarks, invoking…
Month: March 2024
The Lawyers Using Defamation Lawsuits to Address Political Disinformation
Michael J. Gottlieb can never remember the exact amount — it’s $148,169,000— that a jury ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to pay the Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. But Ms. Freeman’s words after the December 2023 victory are indelible to him. “Don’t waste your time being angry at those who did this to…
10 Senate Races to Watch in 2024
The fight for Senate control is playing out almost entirely in Democratically held seats this year as President Biden’s party defends a slim 51-49 seat majority. The retirement of Senator Joe Manchin III, a Democrat, in deep-red West Virginia has all but ceded one seat to the Republicans, who are targeting a number of vulnerable…
How a Third-Party Candidate Could Affect the 2024 Vote
Rebecca Davis O’Brien, a politics reporter for The New York Times, explains how third-party candidates could alter the outcome of the election.
Trump Rekindles Relationships With Key 2016 Donors
Donald J. Trump, facing a cash crunch that puts him at a severe disadvantage to President Biden, dined on Thursday night with a small group of donors including the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, according to two people with knowledge of the event. Mr. Trump’s dinner companions also included the entrepreneur…
How Patty Murray Won $1 Billion for Child Care as Congress Is Deadlocked
Senator Patty Murray got inspired to enter politics when a male state legislator derided her efforts to fight budget cuts to early education programs, calling her “just a mom in tennis shoes” — a remark she would proudly adopt as her campaign slogan. So it came as little surprise that more than 40 years later,…
Revisiting Florida 2000 and the Butterfly Effect
We’re still in a post-primary lull before the campaign starts to heat up — and before Donald J. Trump goes on trial. Here are a few quick notes to end the week. Joe Lieberman and the butterfly ballot Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic senator, died this week at 82. He was Al Gore’s vice-presidential nominee…
Trump Shares Video Featuring Image of a Hog-Tied Biden
Former President Donald J. Trump posted a video on Friday to his social media website that features an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied together. Mr. Trump posted the video to Truth Social early Friday afternoon with a line that said it was filmed on Long Island on Thursday, when Mr….
Peter Shapiro, Political Groundbreaker in New Jersey, Dies at 71
Peter Shapiro, who as a 23-year-old insurgent was the youngest person ever elected to the New Jersey General Assembly and who later became the first Essex County executive, died on Thursday at his home in South Orange, N.J. He was 71. The cause was respiratory failure after long being treated for lung disease, his wife,…
4 Things You Need to Know About Health Care Cyberattacks
The recent cyberattack on the billing and payment colossus Change Healthcare revealed just how serious the vulnerabilities are throughout the U.S. health care system, and alerted industry leaders and policymakers to the urgent need for better digital security. Hospitals, health insurers, physician clinics and others in the industry have increasingly been the targets of significant…