Politics
Political violence could get worse if Trump loses the 2024 election
Political violence has reached alarming levels in the US over the last few years. The January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, the attack on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, and multiple assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump are all examples of America’s increasingly polarized and perilous environment. Now, the 2024 election could…
Insiders look for signals that Kamala Harris would keep up one of Biden's biggest fights
Antitrust officials in Washington and their supporters across the political spectrum are asking whether Kamala Harris is fully committed to President Joe Biden’s crusade against America’s biggest companies. Normally a back-burner issue in national politics, antitrust has become one of the White House’s top legacy issues — and increasingly urgent as Biden’s top corporate regulators…
The POLITICO race to watch: Nevada Senate
Candidates: Sen. Jacky Rosen (D) vs. veteran Sam Brown (R) Ad spending since Labor Day: $47.8 million for Democrats; $36.7 million for Republicans Past results: Rosen won her first term in 2018, ousting incumbent Sen. Dean Heller by 5 percentage points, 50.4 to 45.4 percent. 2020 presidential result: 50.1 percent Biden, 47.7 percent Trump Cook…
Michelle Obama made the case for abortion rights in a way Joe Biden never could
Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks ahead of the arrival of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign rally at the Wings Event Center on October 26, 2024, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. | <p>Brandon Bell/Getty Images</p> In one of the most powerful speeches of the election cycle thus far, former first lady Michelle…
Inside the battle to run the Trump White House
Earlier this month, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump was considering Brooke Rollins — his former Domestic Policy Council director now serving as president of a MAGA think tank, the America First Policy Institute — to serve as his chief of staff should he return to the White House. Within 24 hours, stories…
The POLITICO race to watch: Maine’s 2nd
Candidates: Rep. Jared Golden (D) v. Austin Theriault (R), member of the Maine House of Representatives Ad spending since Labor Day: $10.8 million for Democrats; $10.3 million for Republicans Past results: Golden defeated former Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R) under the state’s ranked-choice voting system, 53.1 percent to 46.9 percent. 2020 presidential result: 45.5 percent Biden;…
Will Beyonce’s Kamala Harris endorsement matter?
Beyoncé wasn’t just on the playlist at Vice President Kamala Harris’s Houston rally on Friday, she was also a special guest. The question is just how much Beyoncé can help Harris. The rally in deep-red Texas comes as the vice president finds herself in a dead heat nationally (and in most swing states) against former…
They were lobbying on legislation before his committee. They were also employing his son.
After three decades representing his home of Springfield, Massachusetts, in the U.S. House, Democratic Rep. Richard Neal reached the goal of his lifetime in January 2019: He took the gavel of the House Ways and Means Committee, with far-reaching powers to shape the nation’s tax code. A year later, his 45-year-old son Brendan Neal launched…
The POLITICO race to watch: Nebraska Senate
Candidates: Sen. Deb Fischer (R) vs. former union leader Dan Osborn (I) Ad spending since Labor Day: $13.88 million from Republicans, $18.99 million in support of Osborn Past results: Fischer beat Democratic candidate Jane Raybould by nearly 20 percentage points. 2020 presidential result: Donald Trump beat Joe Biden 58.5 percent to 39.4 percent Cook Political…
Does it matter who Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous bitcoin inventor, really is?
Despite what a new HBO documentary suggests, the identity of one of the richest people in the world is still unknown. By now, the story is so famous that it’s taken on the aura of a creation myth: one day in early 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the inventor of bitcoin, released the…