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☆ Opinion | Should Biden Bow Out, as David Axelrod Urged?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “The Axe Is Sharp,” by Maureen Dowd (column, Nov. 19):While reading Ms. Dowd’s column on whether President Biden should run for a second term, I was struck by a historical parallel. Like Mr. Biden, President Lyndon B. Johnson had served a deeply charismatic president and used his extensive senatorial experience to seal that president’s vision with legislation. But facing health concerns and declining popularity because of the Vietnam War, as well as surprisingly strong opposition by Robert F. Kennedy, Johnson decided that his moment had passed. As David Axelrod has noted, it is time to consider allowing other Democratic leaders to step forward. Mr. Biden has served the nation honorably for longer than most Americans have been alive, guiding the country through dark times and leaving a clear legislative mark.

Persons: Maureen Dowd, Biden, Lyndon B, Johnson, Robert F, Kennedy, David Axelrod Organizations: Democratic Locations: Vietnam

☆ Opinion | My Brother’s Thanksgiving Lament
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

We could use some prayers right now, in a country inflamed with hate and prejudice and generational mistrust. Americans are at each other’s throats, living in different realities, fraught by two brutal, calamitous wars. ****Less than a year before the country chooses a president, President Biden’s poll numbers are almost catastrophic. While majorities of the country find both Trump and Biden unacceptable, Trump remains the Republican front-runner, bolstered by what his supporters see as overeager Democratic prosecutions. This scenario holds great peril for Republicans because Trump is the weakest candidate against Biden.

Persons: Kevin, Biden’s, Donald Trump, Biden, Trump Organizations: Trump, Republican, Democratic, Republicans, Biden

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president's age should not be a primary focus. “What we say is we have to judge him by what he’s done, not by his numbers,” Jean-Pierre said. “I would put the president’s stamina, the president’s wisdom, ability to get this done on behalf of the American people, against anyone. Political Cartoons View All 1260 Images“By the way, it’s my birthday today,” Biden told a crowd on the White House South Lawn as he pardoned Thanksgiving turkeys Liberty and Bell. Jean-Pierre said Monday that the Bidens would spend the president's birthday as they traditionally have, with a family gathering for Thanksgiving on Nantucket, and that they planned to have coconut cake, another tradition.

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☆ Opinion | The Axe Is Sharp
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s what he has fought all his life for, even battling his way through “friendly fire,” as Hunter Biden told me, in the Obama White House, when some Obama aides undermined him. It must have been awful when Obama took his vice president to lunch and nudged him aside for Hillary to run in 2016. He needs to gather the sharpest minds in his party and hear what they have to say, not engage in petty feuds. Of course, if he’s convicted, that could turbocharge his campaign even more. It’s a perfect playing field for the maleficent Trump: He learned in the 2016 race that physical and rhetorical violence could rev up his base.

Persons: Hunter Biden, Obama, Hillary, Biden, Trump, Jack Smith’s, that’s, maleficent Trump, Paul Pelosi’s, Jonathan Karl, ” Organizations: Biden, House Locations: Jack Smith’s Washington

☆ The Bush-Obama Blueprint That Gives Biden Hope for ’24
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Adam Nagourney | More About Adam Nagourney | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Upending the race dynamics might prove more daunting for Mr. Biden than for his predecessors. But there is not much the Biden campaign can tell voters about Mr. Trump that they don’t already know. (Or for that matter, not much Mr. Biden can tell voters about Mr. Biden that they don’t already know.) When Mr. Bush’s campaign began planning for his re-election, they confronted polling numbers that — while not as unnerving for the president as some that have come out in recent weeks about Mr. Biden — were cause for concern. The Patriot Act was passed shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks with overwhelming support in Congress — including Mr. Kerry.

Persons: Biden, Obama, George W, Bush, Mr, Romney, Kerry, Trump, Bush’s, “, ”, Matthew Dowd Organizations: Mr, Pew Research Group, Patriot Locations: Iraq

☆ NHL roundup: Blues blitz Avs behind 2 hat tricks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Schenn, who also had an assist, now has four career hat tricks, while Buchnevich, who had two short-handed goals, has three career hat tricks. Torey Krug had a goal and an assist, Alexey Toropchenko also scored and Robert Thomas added four assists for the Blues. Guhle also added an assist as the Habs scored two goals in a rapid-fire span in the third period. Brad Marchand logged a goal and an assist to lead the Bruins, who had a two-game winning streak snapped. Cole Perfetti and Brenden Dillon scored goals for the Jets, who saw their three-game winning streak come to an end.

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☆ Opinion | Ivanka Trump, Witness for the Prosecution
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Nina Burleigh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The woman Republicans once talked of as a candidate for president — after her dad’s eight years, of course — is both known and a cipher. They seemed to have in their possession way too many Trump Organization documents with her arabesque signature and too many of her emails in which nine-figure loans were being discussed. Before her stint in Washington with her father, Ms. Trump was pals with the children of the American aristocracy — even if their parents scorned him as a parvenu and a golf cheat. A granddaughter of a woman who worked as a maid in the Carnegie mansion and a great-granddaughter of the widowed German immigrant who gave the Trump Organization its start, Ms. Trump was the first Trump woman to the manner born. For that, even more than the beauty her father frequently and creepily extolled, she played a special role in the Trump Organization.

Persons: —, ” Barry Diller, Maureen Dowd, Trump, ” Alexandra Wrage, ”, Letitia James Organizations: Republicans, New, Prosecutors, Trump Organization, Carnegie, Trump Locations: New York, Washington

☆ Billionaire FBI informant Peter Thiel dished about two Kremlin invites to private Putin meetings
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | Hans-Martin Tillack | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

It was Angermayer who introduced Bisslinger to Thiel at the party, Thiel would later tell the FBI. After some small talk, Bisslinger made a pitch to Thiel: Thiel should travel to Russia to attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. If Thiel chose to attend, Bisslinger said, Bisslinger would arrange for him to meet privately with Putin. "Even if Mr. Angermayer did introduce Mr. Thiel and Mr. Bisslinger," the lawyers wrote in another letter, "Mr. Angermayer is not—and cannot be—responsible for whatever Mr. Bisslinger and Mr. Thiel may or may not have discussed." At his 40th birthday, he connected Peter Thiel with a Russian diplomat, Thiel later told the FBI.

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☆ Devils seek revenge on Capitals after October's high-scoring affair
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

November 9 - The New Jersey Devils will battle the Washington Capitals Friday night in Newark, N.J., in a game that will have a hard time matching the action from their last encounter. Washington visited New Jersey on Oct. 25, and that night the Capitals scored the only three goals in the first period, the Devils notched all four in the second and the Capitals scored three in the third for a 6-4 win. Captain Alex Ovechkin -- in pursuit of Wayne Gretzky's goals record -- has scored twice in 11 games for new coach Spencer Carbery. "It's still early and I think younger players and older players are adjusting here," general manager Brian MacLellan told NHL.com regarding Ovechkin. In that game, the Capitals lost a 3-2 lead in the third period and the Panthers scored 15 seconds into overtime for the win.

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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Washington Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan said it’s unlikely Nicklas Backstrom plays again this season after the Swedish center stepped away from the team last week, citing the ongoing issues with his surgically repaired left hip. MacLellan stopped short of ruling Backstrom out for the remainder of the season or saying the franchise cornerstone had played his final NHL game. He’s been such a big part of the organization,” MacLellan said Monday. He had just one point in eight games this season, was taken off the top power-play unit and had his ice time drastically reduced. “I don’t think I’m going to be the guy that’s going to be able to just replace Nicklas Backstrom," McMichael said.

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One mom told AP about how she had delayed important care for her child because she believed Kennedy’s vaccine falsehoods. The AP found dozens of individuals included in the book died of known causes not related to vaccines, including suicide, choking while intoxicated, overdose and allergic reaction. Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defense produces articles, newsletters, books, podcasts, even TV shows on its own CHD.TV. And hack into that.”Because of his national profile, Kennedy’s work has ripple effects beyond the most devoted anti-vaccine activists. But people involved in the response who spoke to AP said Kennedy and the anti-vaccine activists he supported made things worse.

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☆ Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 1
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Wsj Arts In Review Staff | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A still from ‘Assassin’s Creed Mirage’ Photo: UbisoftFilm“The Exorcist: Believer” (Oct. 6): Scaredy-cats should say a prayer—the hit possession-based horror franchise is getting another installment. This one sees a family plagued by demons seeking advice from just about the only person who might know what’s happening: Chris MacNeil , mother of the petrifying possessed girl in William Friedkin ’s 1973 classic. Ellen Burstyn is back again as Chris, now joined by Leslie Odom Jr ., Ann Dowd , Norbert Leo Butz and Jennifer Nettles .

Persons: ‘, Chris MacNeil, William Friedkin ’, Ellen Burstyn, Chris, Leslie Odom Jr, Ann Dowd, Norbert Leo Butz, Jennifer Nettles Organizations: Ubisoft

☆ Biden’s Staff May Be Giving Ammunition to Trumpsters - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Since he became president, Biden has sharply curbed how much he talks to the press, rarely giving interviews. He limits his press conferences mostly to duets with foreign leaders, where he can put his foreign policy relationships and experience on display. There’s something poignant about watching a guy who used to delight in his Irish gift of gab be muzzled. He knows his staff thinks he has a problem of popping off, and I think that has made him more timid and more cloistered. And when he’s more isolated, he seems sadder maybe because he’s not drawing energy from crowds and journalists the way he used to; perhaps his overprotective staff has gotten into his head.

Persons: Biden, preselect questioners, nix, “, ”, he’s Organizations: White Locations: Covid

☆ Opinion | Living and Dying in ¾ Time
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Think of them as elusive, shimmering creatures from another planet. I don’t think I ever met anyone as warm. Maybe he liked reporters because he started as a journalist, writing for Billboard magazine. I went with him to Walter Reed medical center when he sang for wounded Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. During the Covid years, he did “cabin fever Zooms” with health care workers from across the country who were Parrotheads.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Jimmy Buffett, Carl Hulse, —, “ You’re, Jimmy, Walter Reed Organizations: Billboard, The Locations: Washington, Iraq, Afghanistan

☆ Opinion | Anxiety in the Age of Barbie
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It was “the summer of girl power,” a tour de force by a glittering troika. With pink dream houses, songs and sequins, Barbie, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé buoyed the economy and sent women’s confidence soaring. It is a major topic among moms: daughters struggling with anxiety or the effects of anti-anxiety medications, which can include weight gain and loss of libido. Many young college women are ping-ponging between anxiety, without pills, and numbness and body insecurity, with them. These young women seem to have everything, yet they are unable to fully enjoy a stretch in their life that should be sizzling with adventure and promise.

Persons: Barbie, Taylor Swift

☆ Wells Fargo, a juicy target, sparks lead counsel fight among shareholder firms
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Alison Frankel | Thomson Reuters | Alison Frankel Has Covered High-Stakes Commercial Litigation As A Columnist For Reuters Since A Dartmouth College Graduate | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Meanwhile, yet another plaintiffs' firm, Robbins, is deep into a similar derivative suit against Wells Fargo board members in San Francisco Superior Court. But it’s worth noting that in 2022, Wells Fargo won the dismissal of a previous shareholder derivative suit accusing the board of regulatory compliance failures. Kessler said its complaint, which includes "detailed" and "substantial" references to Wells Fargo internal documents, was more likely to withstand a dismissal motion from the bank. Scott + Scott told Tigar that it had the most up-to-date documents from Wells Fargo because it brought a Section 220 demand after the $3.7 billion CFPB agreement. I would not be surprised to see a rival derivative suit filed in Delaware Chancery Court by one of the shareholder firms spurned by Tigar.

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☆ Opinion | Catch the Smug Mug on That Thug!
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON — If there were any justice in the world, Donald Trump would have taken the Mug Shot of Dorian Gray. As with Oscar Wilde’s charismatic and amoral narcissist, the Picture of Donald Trump should have been a “foul parody,” a reflection of what the chancer has done with his life. It should have revealed a man so cynical and depraved that he is willing to smash our nation’s soul — our democracy — and destroy faith in our institutions. “Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away,” Wilde wrote of Dorian’s portrait. “The rotting of a corpse in a watery grave was not so fearful.”

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, Dorian Gray ., Oscar Wilde’s, narcissist, ” Wilde, ”

☆ Opinion | Live by RICO, Die by RICO
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — I first met Rudy Giuliani in 1986 when I was a Times reporter writing about corruption cases in New York. Gotham was awash in so much municipal sleeze, a detective joked that city employees were streaming into the F.B.I. Giuliani, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, got in a kerfuffle with Robert Morgenthau, the storied Manhattan district attorney who was a model for the D.A. in “Law & Order,” because Rudy considered the local prosecutor to be superfluous, so he wasn’t sharing information. Giuliani, 41, was already renowned as a scourge of organized crime.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani, Robert Morgenthau, Rudy, Morgenthau Organizations: Southern, of Locations: New York, Gotham, U.S, of New York, Manhattan

☆ Opinion | Where’s the Vicuña Outrage?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There was a single word that encapsulated such an outrage: vicuña. President Dwight Eisenhower’s chief of staff, Sherman Adams, accepted a vicuña coat from a Boston textile manufacturer doing business with the federal government. Now Thomas sneers at the law by failing to disclose gifts from billionaires eager to gain influence. (The gifts also benefited his wife, Ginni Thomas, who tried to help Trump overthrow the government.) ProPublica told the ka-ching: “At least 38 destination vacations … 26 private jet flights … a dozen V.I.P.

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☆ Opinion | Coup-Coup-Ca-Choo, Trump-Style
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump is in the dock for trying to cheat America out of a fair election and body-snatch the true electors. But the arrest of Trump does not arrest the coup. The fact is, we’re mid-coup, not post-coup. The former president is still in the midst of his diabolical “Who will rid me of this meddlesome democracy?” plot, hoping his dark knights will gallop off to get the job done. His father disdained losers and Trump would rather ruin the country than admit he lost.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, Trump, Biden, disdained Organizations: New York Times, Siena College

Initially Hunter Biden denied paternity, and later said he had no memory of fathering her at a low point in his life. Last week, the Bidens publicly acknowledged their grandchild, Navy Joan Roberts, for the first time ever. And I’m crazy about them,” Biden told a group of kids on the White House South Lawn in the spring. In public, the White House routinely described the issue as a private matter in which they had no role. “I just think being there is important, and it makes such a difference,” Biden told Shetty on his podcast.

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☆ Ann Roth Is Hollywood’s Secret Weapon
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Maureen Dowd | More About Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“It was probably Jude Law and Matt Damon in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley,’” she said. “Not grain.”After all, as Ms. Roth said slyly, “I’m the world’s oldest costume designer, damn it!”Confirm or DenyMaureen Dowd: You have been wearing blue toenail polish every day since 1953. Ann Roth: Mike Nichols asked me to come to dinner with Anthony Minghella at the fancy Chinese restaurant in Beverly Hills, Mr Chow. She taught me about a fabric that was made in Czechoslovakia and found in Switzerland called silk souffle, which really doesn’t exist anymore. Cameramen sometimes liked to use it on their lenses because it made people look better.

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☆ Opinion | The Moment of Truth for Our Liar in Chief
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON — A man is running to run the government he tried to overthrow while he was running it, even as he is running to stay ahead of the law. That sounds loony, except in the topsy-turvy world of Donald Trump, where it has a grotesque logic. The question now is: Has Trump finally run out of time, thanks to Jack Smith, who runs marathons as an Ironman triathlete? It was the flamboyant flimflam man vs. the buttoned-down, buttoned-up boy scout. Mueller, who had been a decorated Marine in Vietnam, was such a straight arrow that he never even deviated to wear a blue shirt when he ran the F.B.I.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Smith, Robert Mueller, Mueller Organizations: Trump Locations: Russia, Vietnam

☆ Carter, Biden and American Malaise
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Kimberley A. Strassel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 general election by a landslide to Ronald Reagan, so it's difficult to understand why Joe Biden continues to follow the Carter 'malaise' playbook today (07/15/22). Bettman via Getty Images/Shutterstock Composite: Mark KellyWhen Jimmy Carter ran for president, the first U.S. senator to endorse him was Delaware’s Joe Biden. Mr. Carter later wrote in his White House diary that the first-term Democrat had been his “most effective supporter during the 1976 campaign.” In 2021 Mr. Biden was the first president since Mr. Carter left office 40 years earlier to visit him in Plains, Ga. “Those guys love each other,” a former Biden aide told Maureen Dowd of the New York Times .

Persons: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Joe Biden, Carter, Bettman, Mark Kelly, Delaware’s Joe Biden, Mr, ”, Biden, Maureen Dowd Organizations: Getty Images, New York Times Locations: Plains , Ga

☆ Hollywood Contemplates a Fake Tom Cruise - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — In the 2002 movie “Simone,” Al Pacino plays a director whose star, played by Winona Ryder, walks out on him after saying her trailer on set isn’t grand enough. Simone is a perfect-looking blonde, named after the computer program that crafted her, Simulation One. But Simone is so successful — lavished with Oscars, adored by fans — that she overshadows her director, who becomes jealous and gets rid of her with a computer virus. Be careful what you wish for, Hollywood studios, as you mess with the primal force of A.I. Hollywood’s century-old business model was upended by Covid and also by streaming, which swept in like an occupying army.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, “ Simone, ” Al Pacino, Winona Ryder, Simone, Tinseltown Organizations: Hollywood, Covid, Netflix Locations: WASHINGTON

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