Evelyn Lees was hiking across the mountains of northern New Jersey on Monday afternoon when her cellphone screen lit up with a notification that made the Puerto Rican middle school science teacher leap with joy: the Harris-Walz campaign had launched a bilingual WhatsApp channel for Latino voters. Lees, 53, said she ran to her car […]Read More

CHICAGO — Democrats worried that protesters might derail their shining moment this week, pushing the spotlight from Vice President Kamala Harris to the devastation in the Gaza Strip. Republicans claimed that the Democratic National Convention was spiraling into chaos, disparaging this host city as a “Third World country.” But as the party wrapped up its […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech on the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago featured high rhetoricbut not many facts easily checked. Here are five claims made by Harris that caught our attention, in the order in which they were made. As is our practice, we do not award Pinocchios for […]Read More

CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, using the most consequential speech of her political career to cast herself as an avatar of America’s middle class and an avenue to usher the country away from the abrasive style of politics embraced by Republican nominee Donald Trump. “Our nation with this […]Read More

CHICAGO — Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to a 2024 election in which we’ll apparently have to make do with Beyoncé’s voice. (Make sure you are subscribed to this newsletter here. And also listen to the Campaign Moment podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. We dove into Tim […]Read More

CHICAGO — Four of the exonerated members of the so-called Central Park Five — a group of five teenagers wrongfully imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a jogger — appeared Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention, warning of what a second Donald Trump presidency could bring. “Thirty-five years ago, my friends and I were […]Read More

CHICAGO — More than a few moderate Donald Trump critics were puzzled and concerned by Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate. And Walz’s liberal-leaning record as governor — at least compared to other finalists — has combined with controversies about his biographical claims to give Republicans […]Read More

CHICAGO — Kamala Harris concluded her first speech of the Democratic National Convention on Monday with what has become a familiar mantra: “When we fight,” she said, “we win!” As Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison spoke that same day, he nodded toward the line to rile up the crowd. “And believe me,” he said, […]Read More

CHICAGO — Uncommitted delegates to the Democratic National Convention pressed their demands for a speaking slot on Thursday to address conditions in Gaza, gaining support from several individuals and groups at the convention, even as organizers sought to preserve the party’s show of unity. On the final day of the convention, pro-Palestinian activists and delegates […]Read More

During his speech at the Democratic convention Tuesday, former president Barack Obama made an underrecognized point about political decision-making in the United States. “The rest of the world is watching to see if we can actually pull this off,” Obama said. “No nation, no society has ever tried to build a democracy as big and […]Read More