by Shane McKeon | Mar 27, 2016 | Campaign 2016
When it comes to the Apple-FBI battle, the Republican and Democratic candidates for president are generally of two minds: a pair of Republicans side with the FBI; the others are more ambivalent. No one sides with Apple unequivocally. Republicans Donald Trump and Texas...
by Shane McKeon | Mar 16, 2016 | Campaign 2016
WASHINGTON – Asian Americans aren’t the largest voting bloc, but a new group aligned with the Democratic Party says they could be a deciding factor in battleground states in November. But they need to increase their turnout. The Asian American and Pacific...
by Shane McKeon | Mar 14, 2016 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Henry Louis Gates was getting death threats. It was July 2009. Days earlier, the Harvard professor had returned home from China, where he was researching Yo-Yo Ma’s ancestry for a new documentary. When he got to his house in Cambridge, Mass., he...
by Shane McKeon | Mar 7, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A few weeks after announcing an ambitious defense initiative dubbed “Star Wars,” President Ronald Reagan found himself at Camp David watching “War Games.” If you haven’t seen it — or weren’t around back then, it stars Matthew Broderick as a young...
by Shane McKeon | Feb 24, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former President Bill Clinton tried to make a case Wednesday for why his wife is the best candidate for millennials struggling to get a foothold in the modern economy. Bill Clinton spoke to more than 150 people at a recreation center here in suburban...
by Shane McKeon | Feb 24, 2016 | Politics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former President Bill Clinton tried to make a case Wednesday for why his wife is the best candidate for millennials struggling to get a foothold in the modern economy. Bill Clinton spoke to more than 150 people at a recreation center here in...
by Shane McKeon | Feb 18, 2016 | Politics
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio cast himself as a candidate of the future at a town hall here Thursday, basking in the glow of two of the state’s top Republican officials. Nikki Haley, the state’s 44-year-old governor, joined 50-year-old Sen. Tim...
by Shane McKeon | Feb 10, 2016 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — China’s slowing economy and ailing commodity markets are the biggest threats to an otherwise healthy U.S. economy, Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday. He also pushed back against a movement to “audit” the Fed. Bernanke,...
by Shane McKeon | Feb 9, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A former Defense Department official who focused on North Korea for more than 30 years said Tuesday that reforms within the totalitarian state will remain challenging until the totalitarian nation’s internal power system changes. Robert Collins, now a...
by Shane McKeon | Feb 8, 2016 | Politics
Ben and Jerry are in New Hampshire today, but they’re not selling ice cream. They’re pitching a 74-year-old candidate for president – their old pal Bernie Sanders. In a recent interview, they recalled Sanders’ first election victory – a sqeaker. “I remember...
by Shane McKeon | Feb 2, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential campaigns should spend more on hiring and turning out people of color as the electorate grows more diverse, a Center for American Progress fellow said Tuesday. In an event at the left-leaning think tank, author Steve Phillips said...
by Shane McKeon | Jan 28, 2016 | Politics
BALTIMORE, Md. — A fired up Vice President Joe Biden called on U.S. House Democrats to do a better job selling the party’s platform to voters and to be clear about the differences with the Republicans.’ “We shouldn’t apologize for what we’re for, and we should point...
