The Beyoncé song “Freedom” has become Kamala Harris’ anthem – and it was a message the vice president took to the campaign trail, as CBS News traveled with Harris over two days for a behind-the-scenes look during the final stretch of the 2024 election. Asked by “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell
Amid an election-defining gender gap that is now tied for the largest this year, the already close presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has become closer still. But vote differences in the 2024 election between men and women are not just crosstabs on a poll memo. They reflect divergent attitudes about larger social matters,
The following is a transcript of an interview with GOP vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, Republican of Ohio, on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Oct. 27, 2024. MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, thank you for making time for us. The last time we spoke, Iran had just launched a ballistic missile attack on
Harris and Michelle Obama aimed to close the gender gap, while Trump appealed to voters of Middle Eastern descent. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump held back-to-back rallies in Michigan for a second week, each appealing to a different demographic on the first statewide day of early voting. Harris’s Oct. 26
Harris and Michelle Obama aimed to close the gender gap, while Trump appealed to voters of Middle Eastern descent. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump held back-to-back rallies in Michigan for a second week, each appealing to a different demographic on the first statewide day of early voting. Harris’s Oct. 26
I gave up reading American literary fiction when its authors gave up writing it. The novel was born with its subject, the bourgeois individual. When it became uncool to be bourgeois and individual, literary novelists abandoned realism (the means of portraying society) and plotting (the ends of the individual’s story). What remained was character (subjective
The British author and satirist Craig Brown deserves credit for inventing a new style of royal biography in 2017 with his irresistibly readable Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret. (In his native country, it had the superior title Ma’am Darling.) This new genre, which might be called pointilliste biography, took its subject and, through a series