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At least half a dozen federal agencies were targeted in the attack that has been underway since spring and detected only a few weeks ago by the private sector. Intrusions have been reported in numerous government agencies, including the State Department, the Pentagon, Treasury, and Homeland Security. Nuclear laboratories as well as private companies were also targeted. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency had previously acknowledged the hack “poses a grave risk” to federal, state, and local governments. The agency added that it was likely some of the procedures had “not ...

Two weeks ago, I don’t think anybody would have guessed that one of the last major conflicts holding up a deal over coronavirus aid would have somehow centered on a handful of emergency lending programs that have barely been used since the Federal Reserve christened them this year. Yet here weare. Republicans, led by Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, have launched a last-minute bid to permanently shut down some of the credit facilities that the central bank launched this spring in response to the pandemic—specifically, ones that allowed it to buy corporate bonds, and lend to state and loca...

In late February, three days before the South Carolina Democratic primary, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign seemed doomed. Biden had finished no higher than third place in the first two states, Iowa and New Hampshire, and come in a very distant second in Nevada. He desperately needed a strong showing in South Carolina to stay in the race. That’s when Rep. Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black member in Congress, got behind a lectern in North Charleston, South Carolina, and vouched for his friend. “I know his heart. I know who he is. I know what he is,” Clyburn said of Biden. “I ca...

Dear Care and Feeding, My mom is really inflexible about my clothes. The problem isn’t really about modesty; my family is both Indian and practicing Catholic (aka a modesty double whammy), and I can accept and understand that my parents are going to control things like the length of my clothes. I’m fine with that. Advertisement My problem is that my mom won’t let me wear the clothes I like. I have a very different style from her. When we go shopping, I might show my mom a shirt I like, and she will tell me that it looks boring and plain, and then show me a shirt she likes instead. I fee...

 for the full episode. I’ve heard so much about the Democratic get-out-the-vote effort in Georgia—the way Stacey Abrams worked for years to register voters and turn them out, the way that infrastructure clicked into place for Joe Biden, the way the party hopes it will keep clicking for the Democratic candidates for Senate, who are headed for a January runoff. But I wanted to know more about the Republicans’ approach to these Senate elections, so I called up Rusty Paul for Friday’s episode of What Next. And he was pretty blunt. “It’s not about changing hearts and minds at this p...