August 12th, 2024
How San Francisco’s Democratic political machine led to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign
California Democratic Congressman Phil Burton, second from right, with – left to right – Democratic State Assemblymen Leo T. McCarthy, Willie L. Brown and Art Agnos, in the early 1980s. San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library by Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University The political earthquake that has made Kamala Harris the Democratic Party’s nominee … Continued
August 12th, 2024
‘Fake news of the highest order’: Donald Trump team refutes racism revelations in new family memoir
Donald Trump (right), pictured with his father Fred Trump (left) and boxing promoter Don King. AP/AAP by Alexander Howard, University of Sydney “Donald was pissed. Boy, was he pissed.” This is how Fred C. Trump III describes the moment, sometime in the early 1970s, when his uncle, Donald J. Trump, “came stomping” back into the family … Continued
August 11th, 2024
5 takeaways from the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz visit to Detroit
By the time Vice President and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris took the stage at her UAW-inspired campaign rally just before 7 p.m. in an airport hangar near Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Wednesday, Aug. 7, the crowd of nearly 15,000 supporters had been gathered for nearly four hours. They stayed engaged with music blaring over the … Continued
August 11th, 2024
What a Kamala Harris presidency could mean for the world – and where she differs from Joe Biden
Julia Nikhinson/AP by Ava Kalinauskas, University of Sydney and Samuel Garrett, University of Sydney Now that US Vice President Kamala Harris has sewn up the Democratic presidential nomination, she has a busy few weeks ahead of her. After she announces her vice-presidential running mate, the pair will campaign in seven swing states in four days. … Continued
August 11th, 2024
From folksy Midwestern teacher to ‘cool dad’ meme machine: who is Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ VP running mate?
Matt Rourke/AP by Jared Mondschein, University of Sydney A former teacher and football coach who a majority of Americans had never heard of before is now running for vice president of the United States alongside Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. While the two names at the top of the Democratic and Republican tickets – Harris … Continued
Bishop William J. Barber II Shares His Thoughts About What He'd Like to See at The 2024 DNC
