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Quiet and low profile, Mike Donilon is Biden’s White House ‘wise man’ By Jess Bidgood and Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated March 5, 2021, 9:50 a.m. Email to a Friend Mike Donilon listened to Joe Biden speak in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 6.ERIN SCHAFF/NYT/file WASHINGTON — Last year, as the pandemic hemmed Joe Biden’s campaign appearances inside the boundaries of his Delaware home base, anxiety-ridden Democrats groused he wasn’t doing enough to seize control of the presidential race. With adverse headlines piling up, the presidential candidate asked his friend and c...

Kamala Harris last week, the news anchor for WSAZ in Huntington, W.Va., pointed out how unusual it was that “the White House actually reached out to us for that interview.” Indeed, it’s not every day that the vice president calls a small-market television news station looking to chat. The station was pleased with the high-level access, but the brief video interview backfired on Harris and has become the first public stumble in her short tenure as vice president. Good morning, and welcome to the Essential Politics newsletter, Kamala Harris edition. As I promised in my first installment...

Art, literature, politics and history come together once again this September at the Kennedy Summer School in New Ross, Wexford. American and Irish academics, writers and policy experts will converge to look back on and look ahead to some of the key issues in the American-Irish relationship. On Thursday, September 8, the proceedings will kick off with an opening address from U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Kevin O’Malley, as well as a keynote address by Prof. Robert Dowling. Dowling is the leading U.S. academic on the work of Irish American playwright Eugene O’Neill and the author, most recent...

Rating Reporting A January 20 2021 image of Bernie Sanders sitting (with mittens) at United States President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony went instantly viral as a meme, and among responses was a since-deleted tweet — labeled “Still the best picture of # Berniesanders sitting though” and purportedly depicting a young Sanders at a protest for racial justice: On Facebook, screenshots of the deleted tweet above circulated widely (as seen in a search for images): Context: Bernie Sanders, Sitting in a Chair, Wearing Mittens All of social media was rapidly inundated in variations of Be...

A negative of a photo of Bernie Sanders' arrest in August 1963 was found in the Chicago Tribune's archives.