Outside a Harlem subway station, Yusef Salaam, a candidate for New York City Council, hurriedly greeted voters streaming out along Malcolm X Boulevard. For some, no introductions were necessary. They knew his face, his name and his life story.
Thirty-three Senate Republicans are calling on President Biden to withdraw Julie Su’s nomination to lead the Department of Labor, according to a letter sent to the White House on Tuesday. A group that comprises more than two-thirds of the Senate GOP conference signed a letter calling for Su’s nomination to be pulled after months of...
The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning is scheduled to hear testimony from Justice Department Special Counsel John Durham, who recently released a report highly critical of the FBI’s performance during its “Crossfire Hurricane” probe into allegations of contacts between Russia and former President Trump's 2016 campaign. Durham on Tuesday also appeared in a closed-door...
One of the sonar aircraft searching for the missing tourist submarine bound for the Titanic wreck site heard noises Wednesday, offering some hope for the lives of five on board. The U.S. Coast Guard said just after midnight on Wednesday that a Canadian aircraft “detected underwater noises in the search area,” but that additional efforts...
Beijing on Wednesday bashed President Biden’s description of China’s President Xi Jinping as a dictator during remarks to donors as “extremely absurd and irresponsible.” At a fundraising event in California on Tuesday, Biden discussed the incident earlier this year when the U.S. shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon that floated over the country, which heightened...
This week, in discussing a fascinating new paper, I want to bring together two ideas that have long animated this column. One of those ideas is that people have limited insight into their own thinking, including assessing changes in their views. For instance, last week I described Americans’ inaccurate belief that they had...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito late Tuesday defended himself against a new ProPublica report that raised questions about his ethical conduct and financial disclosures, arguing it is misleading. “ProPublica has leveled two charges against me: first, that I should have recused in matters in which an entity connected with Paul Singer was a party and,...