News AnalysisImageFormer Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was crisper and more energetic on Wednesday than he was in the first debate last month.CreditCreditMaddie McGarvey for The New York TimesOne month after a wobbly debate performance that reinforced the perceived weaknesses of the ostensible front-runner — Is he too old? Too nostalgically moderate? Too politically…
In the second night of the July 30-31 Democratic presidential debates held in Detroit, CNN's moderators zeroed in on the candidates' differences on health care, criminal justice, race, and immigration, setting up clashes on the stage with 10 candidates. Former Vice President Joe Biden, leading in national polls, faced the lion's share of attacks from…
Democrats (and even Republicans) can all agree that the US and China are locked in a race, a race for technology and influence and economic dominance. It is a rivalry that will likely dominate the politics of this generation. All the more reason why it is disappointing that, at Tuesday's debate, it became clear that…
AN ALIEN ARRIVING on Earth might be mystified by the bits of paper, plastic and metal that humans treat with such reverence. Why should some objects but not others count as money? Today, when many currencies are stable and trusted, it seems easy to forget that money involves a confidence trick, pulled off by governments…
ImageCandidates in the first night of this week’s Democratic presidential debates sparred over health care coverage.CreditCreditErin Schaff/The New York TimesWASHINGTON — It took only one question — the very first — in Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential primary debate to make it clear that the issue that united the party in last year’s congressional elections in…
The question of what it will take to defeat President Donald Trump next year took center stage at the Democratic debate as moderate rivals to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders argued their promises of sweeping, fundamental change are unrealistic and will drive voters to the GOP.Sanders and Warren, the two-highest polling candidates on the stage…
Capital One's data was breached sometime between March and July, and 106 million people had some combination of their IDs, Social Security numbers, and bank-account information compromised.The bank didn't know about the hack until a member of the public emailed it to say details of the hack appeared to be posted on GitHub, a popular…
WHEN DAN COATS was first elected to Congress, in 1980, Donald Trump had yet to build his first casino. Mr Coats, who also served as ambassador to Germany during George W. Bush’s administration, represented Indiana in the House and the Senate for 24 years. He is, in short, a deeply establishment Republican, which is why…
Europe Shut These Migrants Out, Libyan Rebels Bombed Them
Capital One lost data from as many as tens of millions of credit card applications after a Seattle woman hacked into a cloud-computing company server, federal prosecutors in Seattle said.The woman, Paige A. Thompson, was arrested Monday and appeared in federal court in Seattle. The data theft occurred some time between March 12 and July…
