NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-01 18:00:05 Soon after a huge container ship struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, bringing it down, President Biden pledged that the federal government would “pay the entire cost of reconstructing” the bridge. This would clearly be the right thing to do, not just to help the state of Maryland but…
Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories 2024-02-22 11:00:00 In the last midterm elections, voters on both sides of the aisle put little stake in mental acuity: An 89-year-old Republican senator was reelected in Iowa, while a Democratic Senate candidate with serious cognitive health concerns was elected in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, both our current and previous presidents…
Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories 2024-02-22 04:00:00 So here are four myths about Ukraine that you might have heard, and some of the reasons they are untrue. Myth One: Ukraine Cannot Win Let’s start with the big one, the myth that U.S. support will feed an endless war with no possibility of Ukrainian victory….
Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories 2024-02-18 06:00:00 But few seem eager to see the party make major structural or policy changes after Democrat Tom Suozzi won the special election convincingly. Instead, lawmakers accused Republican Mazi Pilip of running a bad campaign, noted that now-President Joe Biden won the district by more than eight points…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-02-14 11:51:42 As senators gathered on the floor for a typical Monday night vote at the end of October, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and minority leader, approached Senator Chuck Schumer, his Democratic counterpart, with some unsettling news: Border security was going to have to be part of any package…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-02-13 20:13:05 The United States House of Representatives voted narrowly on Tuesday to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, in a precedent-shattering vote that charged him with willfully refusing to enforce border laws and breaching the public trust. In a 214-to-213 vote, Republicans barreled past the solid opposition of…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-01-31 00:26:14 The House Homeland Security Committee approved two articles of impeachment early Wednesday against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, over his handling of the southwestern border, as Republicans raced forward with a partisan indictment of President Biden’s immigration policies. In an 18-to-15 party-line vote, the panel endorsed a…
