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For scholars in the field of manterruption, mansplaining and intrusive interruption, the 30 or so impolite violations of etiquette during Wednesday’s Democratic debate will no doubt turn into a classroom lecture, or maybe even a scientific paper. If the terms aren’t exactly familiar, a simplified explanation: They refer to the tendency of men to dominate […]

“Are we going to help our military continue to rebuild? Are we going to give our all-volunteer force the equipment, training and housing that they need to do their job?” asked Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee. “That’s what this bill provides.” Included in that bill is

“I believe we need to get to universal health care as a right and not a privilege — to single payer,” Ms. Gillibrand said. “The quickest way you get there is you create competition with the insurers. God bless the insurers. If they want to compete, they can certainly try.” More likely, though, she contended,

Mr. Biden’s sometimes meandering debate performance on Thursday night did little to quell the growing sense among his rivals that, while he remains atop the polls, the 2020 Democratic presidential race remains wide open seven months before the Iowa caucuses. Strategists for Mr. Biden’s rivals are already whispering about whether he has lost a step.

The moderators, having originally given Ms. Harris 30 seconds, let the drama play out for minutes, and the NBC producers quickly put it in split-screen. The visuals, certain to be played and replayed, are even more striking: Mr. Biden, head bowed, eyes downcast, his mouth at an uncomfortable slant, grimacing as the audience cheers the

When the candidates took the stage in Miami on Thursday for the second night of Democratic primary debates, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders were the stars. By the time they walked off, all eyes were on Senator Kamala Harris. Twitter is a bad gauge for public opinion, but a

As President Trump weighs a possible resolution to his trade conflict with China, one factor may be pushing him toward a deal: His trade policies are broadly unpopular with American voters. Large majorities of Democrats and independents say the tariffs Mr. Trump has imposed on Chinese goods — and the retaliatory tariffs that China has

(APPLAUSE) So, on that point, part of the issue that is at play in America today, and we’ve all been traveling around the country, I certainly have, I’m meeting people who are working two and three jobs. You know, this president walks around talking about and flouting his great economy, right? My great economy. My

This was the moment Joseph R. Biden Jr. had to know would be coming. He did not seem entirely prepared. About an hour into the debate on Thursday, Senator Kamala Harris, the African-American former prosecutor from California, had edged into the cross-talk with a request: “I would like to speak on the issue of race.”

“The secretary,” he wrote, “was determined to reinstate a citizenship question from the time he entered office; instructed his staff to make it happen; waited while commerce officials explored whether another agency would request census-based citizenship data; subsequently contacted the attorney general himself to ask if D.O.J. would make the request; and adopted the Voting