CHICAGO — The marchers had moved on, the chants had faded away, and the protest had ended. But Julie Wroblewski’s job is just beginning. She walked carefully through a public park in this Midwest metropolis, combing over the flotsam left behind by the thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who hadcrowded in hours earlier to denounce the […]Read More

CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is releasing a new television ad in battleground states with a message aimed at the middle class, in its first major move after the convention. In the ad, titled “Opportunity,” Harris speaks directly to the camera about the importance of lowering costs and taxes on middle-class Americans. It’s […]Read More

Recognizing that the audience for Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech would probably draw in a broader, less heavily Democratic audience, the lineup of speakers at the Democratic convention Thursday evening included a number of validators from outside the party. Among them was former Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger. He was speaking not because he’s a […]Read More

PHOENIX — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who struggled to gain traction as a third-party insurgent, said he would suspend his long-shot White House bid Friday, withdraw from battleground states’ ballots and endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump. Kennedy announced that he would suspend his campaign with several caveats, after several turbulent months of […]Read More

The past decade has been a remarkable demonstration of the extent to which celebrity and money can provide a platform for unfounded, dangerous theories about the world. These have always been with us, of course, but the advent of the internet or social media or both has allowed those theories to find pockets of support […]Read More

CHICAGO — It was not yet 9 a.m. Tuesday, but Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was moving fast through the labyrinth of delegate breakfasts at a hotel near the Democratic National Convention. First Tennessee, then Pennsylvania, a sprint downstairs for Wyoming and Montana, then back up to New Mexico and over to North Carolina. In less […]Read More

It is probably an understatement to say that the speeches during which each major party’s presidential candidate accepted their nominations differed dramatically. Former president Donald Trump’s was long, often diverging from his prepared comments to offer a rambling aside about himself or his campaign. Vice President Kamala Harris’s, by contrast, was tightly crafted and delivered […]Read More

CHICAGO — Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd sizes” at Democrats’ convention here while making a suggestive hand gesture — a throwback to Trump’s old squabbling with a GOP rival about the measurements of his hands and other anatomy. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) declared Trump “fubar,” using a crude military acronym to […]Read More