“But didn’t we put MoMo in power in the first place when the ROC elected a socialist president?” one of the black shirts asked. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He probably could have stayed in his tree or his hole for the rest of the war without being caught, but he elected to fire on the squad. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, right, and the Elector is fairly elected every term, too. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

School had always been easy for Melanie; and even though she wasn’t the kind who got elected class president, she’d always had plenty of friends. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those prosperous, solid men out there would discover now that they had elected a ludicrous waif. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we can get three more moderate school board members elected, they can join forces with the three who walked out. Then instead of everything being deadlocked, we can move forward on reopening the schools.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’m not getting elected homecoming king anytime soon, right?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The lion’s share of students boycotted the election, but twenty-five stu-dents, about one-sixth of the student body, showed up and elected six representatives, one of whom was myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not elected to eat in the bath, however—or even to linger beyond the not inconsiderable time it took to get clean—being far too eager to continue talking with Suheyla. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The group elected Stanton as president and Anthony as secretary. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Family purchasing committees, duly elected, bought the food, clothes, furniture, and athletic equipment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right! Those who don’t have good class backgrounds shouldn’t be elected,” somebody else agreed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, he was elected to the position of chaplain—or Kludd—of the Klavern. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The elected leaders of the African American community have a much broader mandate than civil rights groups, but they, too, frequently overlook criminal justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although elected President of the College of Physicians in 1654, he had to decline the honour on the grounds of age and ill health. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The election came, Mr. Buchanan was elected, and the endorsement, such as it was, was secured At length, a squabble springs up...” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The message had been delivered with a resounding, brutal frankness: Voters had elected her husband and not her. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was humbled by their investment, the work I saw everyday people doing to help get him elected. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And then, without argument and without ceremony, Tobias is elected to be a leader of Dauntless. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had been his legal adviser; she would inherit his stock and serve as a director of the company until the day she, too, would be elected chairman of the board. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

A motion was made from the floor to change the organization’s constitution and allow men to be elected as officers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Barack was elected to the Illinois senate in November 1996 and sworn in two months later, at the start of the following year. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term in the fall of 1944 without the help of Rass, which went solidly Republican as usual. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The party sachems met here in secret pow-wow in a private dining room and, over succulent oysters, they decided who’d be elected and who mowed down. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This statement was strongly opposed by the others, and Constance was elected to speak for them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We elected members of our community to organize the events. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Myers then confessed that he had made up the story because the true killer was none other than the elected sheriff of a nearby county. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every semester, the faculty elected twelve students, three from each class, to serve on the Jury. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tom Tate was elected the new county sheriff days after the murder took place, and folks started to question whether he was up to the job. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in November, rumbles of rebellion swept the southern states. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He expected to have strong influence over Garfield in return for helping to get him elected. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The initial speech at the Ceremony of Twelve was made by the Chief Elder, the leader of the community who was elected every ten years. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Today I'm the only person to get off at this station, holding my small suitcase, looking like a mad vacationer who has elected to come to the sea in the middle of winter. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re right. I might not get elected,” he said, giving me a sad look. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

This is what she had been elected to do. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Cape Town was thirty-five miles to the southwest, but because of the unexpected crowds at the gate, the driver elected to take a different path to the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were black people who elected their own politicians, but these politicians, I learned, superintended a police force as vicious as any in America. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If I had my way—” “He won’t really get elected praetor, will he?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

President and class secretary and lab-squad captain, but I got elected the Bathroom Bomber. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Throughout Adams’s presidency, she claimed, Jefferson had used his position as vice president to undermine the policies of the very man he had been elected to support. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And If we’re elected, well, then you have to go to student council meetings, I guess. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

After the nominations were debated, a vote was taken and the pair were elected. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Squeezed between his nurse and his jailers, Shin elected to tell the truth to both sides. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some called for Prince Hamlet to be elected, despite his youthfulness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Celia has judged 193 cases since she was elected to the People’s Court, from petty thievery and family disputes to more serious crimes of medical malpractice, arson, and counterrevolutionary activities. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now nick-named Sarge by many in our session, he had in the first week been elected session leader—our group’s liaison to the instructors and Sergeant Bloom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the newly elected male president offered her the vice presidency, she turned him down. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At that moment he could have been elected president of the gang. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He’s not going to be the youngest elected congressman in modern history without earning it, but nobody needs to know how hard he’s kicking underwater. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Soon after their arraignment, newly elected President Obama suspended the case and considered trying it in a federal court in New York City. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

What Doc isn’t saying: he still hasn’t gotten his mind around the fact that his top two debaters elected to forgo the actual debate rounds of the tournament and focus solely on advanced pairs argumentation. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Because the armies were angered by Alexander’s softness, which I discussed above, after Alexander’s death they elected him to imperial power. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Goldwater called Johnson “soft on communism,” and when asked what he would do if elected, Goldwater suggested he might use atomic bombs on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh, so who elected you the Minister of Fashion?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was elected to nothing, honored for nothing—and yet, though I did not realize this until years later, he was grand marshal of our daily parade. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you hear the news? I was elected president of the Chumley Prep Philosophy Club. My friends and I started it a few minutes ago.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

If a black person can be elected president, can’t a black person do just about anything now? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I vowed to myself that if Barack was fortunate enough to be elected, I’d find some way to better support these families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At twenty-three years old, he was elected to the New York State Assembly. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At least that’s what people must have thought, because he got elected. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Flamsteed took up residence there in July 1676 and was elected as one of the Fellows of the Royal Society in the same year. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Later, John Palmer, the half-Sioux lawyer, sent a letter to Charles Curtis, a U.S. senator from Kansas; part-Kaw, part-Osage, Curtis was then the highest official with acknowledged Indian ancestry ever elected to office. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As Calvinists, the Pilgrims and the Puritans thought, although they could never be certain, that they were among the elected few their god had chosen for salvation. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure whom I was supposed to be paying attention to—my friend or the girl she had, apparently, elected to speak for her. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They could take turns at being elected representatives. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he arrived in Rome the Senate elected him emperor out of fear, and put Julian to death. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the conference leaders in England learned that the American Anti-Slavery Society had elected several female delegates, they wrote to discourage the group from bringing the women to the convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The nation maintains its own elected government and has twenty thousand members. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Half the members of the assembly would be elected on a national basis and half on a regional one, and the assembly would be empowered both to write a new constitution and to pass legislation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man named Roosevelt promises to fix that if he is elected president. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After four years his fellows elected him valedictorian. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1862, without any campaigning on his part, Garfield was elected. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In 1667, Newton was elected to a minor Fellowship at Trinity, which would automatically become a major Fellowship when he became an MA in 1668. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Can you believe the Afghan opposition groups actually met in Bonn, Germany, and elected a Pukhtun?” said Uncle Amin as he returned. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He’d work hard, get himself well-known and trusted, and eventually be elected to the House of Representatives from his state. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The legion normally has two elected praetors. Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, was our other praetor until he disappeared last October.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I was an undocumented immigrant who'd been elected to public office. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then, in the second semester of the seventh grade, I was elected class president. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had elected not to use an ice cube, since it was steeped at 180° and not a full boil. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Fortunately for the WCTU, it elected Frances Willard as its president. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Billy could have continued fighting on the inside while he had the advantage but elected instead to back away for more power. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody said, “I’m Charles C. Diggs, elected congressman from the state of Michigan, and I insist on being given a seat in the courtroom.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the conflict between Glanvill and Webster the Society hedged its bets; Webster, however, was never elected a fellow. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That same day, the six elected in absentia met to discuss these events. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that if Cassius and I happened to meet, it would likely prove embarrassing for Cassius, since he had elected to remain with Elijah Muhammad’s version of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been elected to the city council two years before, on his second attempt, and there was rampant talk of a run against the mayor in the next Democratic primary. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the citizens gathered there wore overcoats, shoe rubbers, and woolen scarfs, having elected not to leave these things in the cloakroom: there’d been a rush to find a place to sit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I held to my thoughts and prayers that no matter who was elected, God was in charge. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the morning of August 18, a stiflingly hot day even by Nashville standards, elected officials gathered at the statehouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The same logic didn’t apply in the United States, where the president is independently elected and often does not represent the party that has a majority in the Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

If America elected its first black president, it would say something not just about Barack but also about the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The first black alderman had been elected in 1915, and he was later elected to Congress. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I myself was one of the organizers and was elected to this newly constituted committee. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Mandela was elected we could finally live freely. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Although Hancock had never held elected office, he had an edge in the election. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I know only that, in the course of negotiations, they elected to deliver Pro Bono as a garnish to a gentleman donor in the Virginia Colony. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And as supreme ruler of the household, Dad has elected Garrett and me to take care of the toilets. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Of his being Fayette County’s elected representative to the legislature and driving over to Charleston to put his head together with other important heads and enact profound laws. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once this proved successful and churches across the country were preaching the ASL’s message, the organization turned its main efforts to getting politicians elected to support its cause. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He had just been elected President, and it was necessary that he speak. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long driveway, its privacy guarded by tall spruce, led to the modern mansion of the newly elected chairman of the board of Westing Paper Products Corporation. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Colonel, we got grievances. The men elected me to talk for ’em.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been elected president of my class, and I found myself suddenly involved in student politics. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He told Americans that his preference was to complete the term to which he’d been elected, but that he longer had enough support to continue. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Addie: Big deal, she was elected class president for the past three years. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

A staunch Republican, he was also elected to local office. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If he gets elected, he'll help people like us, I thought. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was elected over his own objections: He was too impatient with people, he freely admitted, and was basically a misanthrope. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he was elected, the squads had been integrated, but now few whites serve in anything but command roles. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She had passed the four subjects she had elected. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father, utterly thrilled by Jim’s gridiron prowess, was elected as president of the Big Creek Football Fathers’ Association. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been here a few times since my mom got elected, and it’s always incredible to see the history here, and the beer selection.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the votes were tallied, Stanton was elected president, Anthony was elected vice president, and Stone became chair of the executive committee.Stanton accepted the position but returned to England immediately after the convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After President Botha’s resignation as head of the National Party, F. W. de Klerk had been elected in his place, and there was said to be considerable jockeying between the two men. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout 1932, the Hitler Youth campaigned heartily to get Nazis elected to the Reichstag, the legislative assembly or Parliament of Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because city council members are elected by the citizens of the county, members would take these opinions into consideration before voting. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In 1876, elected President of Bowdoin College, where he attempts to modernize the school, introducing courses in science, de-emphasizing religion, and becomes involved in student demonstrations over the question of ROTC. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aw, I don’t know. They all the same. They wanted to get elected to office. They wanted money, like everybody else. Mr. Max, it’s a game and they play it.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The eighth graders had picked this computer genius, Luke Simard, and got him elected president just so they could make fun of him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

This blame-the-party-in-power approach made sense in Great Britain, where the prime minister is an elected member of Parliament who serves only as long as his or her party holds a majority of the parliamentary seats. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Just before lunch, I hear Shay complaining that if she’d been elected, she’d have started a horseback riding club at school. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“No, Monsieur. It is only chance. It just happens that many people have elected to travel tonight.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cyril Ramaphosa was elected secretary-general, evidence that the torch was being passed from an older generation of leadership to a younger one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they elected a representative to go up to God and question Him. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Job bore them witness, and Abraham was their father, Moses had elected to suffer with them rather than glory in sin for a season. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I could stand up and demand fair and just treatment by law enforcement and our elected officials. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Let us move along, my lords. We have two queens to try for high treason, you may recall. My niece has elected trial by battle, she informs me. Ser Robert Strong will champion her.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Supposedly this Devil One person was going to get one million dollars from the United States to pay soldiers to do that, go against the very person they all just elected. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted to serve notice that no matter which white man was elected, he would have to answer to black demands for progress. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s absolutely sure that guys who kissed a Prince of England and liked it don’t get elected to represent Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was a democratically elected leader, and a progressive. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Just two years later that brown-haired young man was elected to Congress and eventually became president of the United States. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment of hesitation, Mr. Dantzler, who had been elected the company-church deacon for the year, rose and asked for everybody to wait until the choir filed outside. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The others agreed, and Sticky was elected to send the message, he being the quickest with Morse code. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The All-in Conference called for a national convention of elected representatives of all adult men and women on an equal basis to determine a new nonracial democratic constitution for South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They elected me class president my very first year there. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once elected, Reagan’s promise to enhance the federal government’s role in fighting crime was complicated by the fact that fighting street crime has traditionally been the responsibility of state and local law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You have been elected by the organization as the president,” I said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The classmates who had elected me president—did they really think I was the best in the class, or was I just a novelty object they wanted to play with? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room fills with a small army of elected officials, all of whom wish to witness the historic moment of Lincoln’s death. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The students of London University elected me president of their Students’ Union, in absentia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A National Action Council was elected, with myself as honorary secretary, to communicate this demand to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unaccustomed to democracy, many Germans had little faith in their president and elected Reichstag. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Alex has had the layout of the building memorized since his dad first got elected to the Senate. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

President John Kennedy, elected in 1960, increased the number of American soldiers from a few hundred to over sixteen thousand. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The garden in the center of our apartment complex does not need the approval of elected officials to be transformed, but I want whatever I submit to the bank to appear very professional. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As he saw it, it was part of his responsibility, what he’d been elected to do—to look rather than look away, to stay upright when the rest of us felt ready to fall down. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But before the election of an assembly, it was necessary to have an interim government that could oversee the transition until a new government was elected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assure them he does exist and is not a crank: cranks do not get elected as Fellows of the British Academy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At that session of the NEC I was elected deputy president of the organization while Alfred Nzo, the organization’s secretary-general, was named acting president while Oliver was recuperating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned to America in time to be elected the first vice president of the United States, which most observers, including Adams himself, interpreted as a popular mandate on his historical contribution to independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And when elected President of the Royal Society, in 1680, he expressed his regrets that he could not take up the post because his personal religious beliefs prevented him from swearing the necessary oaths. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Gee, thanks. I hear Octavian might get elected praetor, assuming the camp survives that long.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The fourteen men ultimately elected consisted of half a dozen farmers, a pharmacist, a nursery manager, an airport employee, a well driller, two salesmen, a machinist, and the manager of Ray’s Bowling Alley. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refrained from asking questions, but explained that Mayor Morrison had a good reputation for fairness and the Negroes were hoping he would get elected governor. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was president of the junior class now, would undoubtedly be elected president of the senior class, and none of that mattered anymore. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Boston University, and her otherwise all male class elected her class president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Americans elected A new president, Richard Nixon, who had campaigned on a promise to bring “an honorable end to the war in Vietnam.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Trying to cheer him up, I added, “I got good news, Papá. I was elected student body president and my friend was elected treasurer.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She had heard that his wife was very sick, might not live to see her husband elected. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd stood, applauding for more than five minutes straight as elected leaders jostled for position on the aisles. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now that he’d been elected president, he could put his plan into action. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Who elected her queen of the poets anyway? The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The New York legislature, without trial or warning, expelled five of its Socialist Party members even though they had been freely elected. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Not only were men welcome at the American, the group elected a man, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, to be its first president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She became literary editor of the college paper, joined the sorority Pi Beta Phi, and was even elected class president. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was elected, the rest were county employees whose job status was not reliant on elections. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But by some old, standing arrangement with her psyche, she elected to feel guilty for having seen it, caught it, and sentenced herself to listen to Lane’s ensuing conversation with a special semblance of absorption. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Besides, he agreed with Walt Rostow’s assessment: “The materials are so explosive, that they could gravely damage the country, whether Mr. Nixon is elected or not.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In 1987, all forty elected district attorneys in Alabama were white, even though there are sixteen majority-black counties in the state. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’d led an overhaul of state campaign finance laws that ushered in stricter ethics rules for elected officials. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Or whatever he is? The one they elected?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school was named after a pioneering doctor who also became the first female mayor elected in England. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I told the crowd that we one day would occupy these buildings as the first democratically elected government of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think the taxpayers would be too keen on hearing that their elected official traveled in unrivaled luxury while they were forced to ride in barrels pushed along by clanking old engines. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in there, old Edgar Derby was elected head American. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old age of slavery overseas and a Parliament elected by only 3 percent of the English was ticking down to days, to hours, to minutes, to seconds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Council of Elders languished in prison, and new council members were elected by popular vote. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We caucused among ourselves and lobbied all the residents of the house, and within weeks elected our own House Committee, defeating the upperclassmen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1605, Paul V had been elected Pope, and he made a determined effort to extend the authority of the Church and tighten the papal grip on Catholic states. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then he tells us that my idea for No-Name Day is more important than who gets elected to student council and will we work with him to help make it happen. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Quite a few did not have high school degrees and elected courses to qualify for that degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He retired soon after the vote, only to be nominated as a justice to the Supreme Court by the newly elected president, Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was the littlest, so I was elected. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Several months before Barack was elected, I’d told a magazine interviewer that my primary focus in the White House would be to continue my role as “mom in chief” in our family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As I slept, the news was confirmed: American voters had elected Donald Trump to succeed Barack as the next president of the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Only the roughest boys and some of the young men elected to be hit by the big trees. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in this context it merely meant that the National Party would be part of any popularly elected government provided it polled enough votes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But half the army elected to stay behind with Agamemnon as their corps commander; the other half embarked and pulled away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1605, Bellarmine would almost certainly have been elected Pope, but declined to offer himself as a candidate, preferring to be the power behind the throne. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Did you ask Mother Fletcher if she remembered when Woodrow Wilson was elected President?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can more politicians return unopposed than elected? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In October the other pupils elected me Student Council representative for the fourth grade. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

By the end of election night, it was clear that although he had garnered less than 38 percent of the vote, Thompson had been elected. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then in the winter of 1840, Henry wrote that he had been elected as a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention, in London, and he would be abroad for about eight months. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It promotes a return to the democratically elected political systems of the past. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But by a margin of more than three to one, Transkei voters elected members opposed to the homeland policy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He served as Baltimore’s state’s attorney for four years and at age thirty-eight was elected the first African-American mayor of Baltimore City, which at the time was over 60 percent black. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In 1977, the former Klan leader was elected business manager by a four-to-one margin despite the fact that his opponent, the incumbent, was black, as were 80 percent of the union members. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though everyone was dying for an explanation, we had elected to give the girls a moment to themselves, and stared in amazement from a respectful distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A Democratic alderman elected by the residents of Packingtown threatened escalated violence if the mayor did not take action: “We must defend ourselves if the city authorities won’t protect us.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The first minority candidate ever elected to the board, her tenure had been as stirring as it was controversial. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government finally agreed to accept a single, elected constitutional assembly, which would adopt a new constitution and serve as a transitional legislature for the new government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Wyoming, a group of the wives of elected officials had worked behind the scenes to convince their husbands to support female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Nixon was well aware that voters had not elected him to escalate the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He’d collaborated with grassroots leaders, everyday citizens, and elected officials, and almost miraculously it had yielded results. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The next day, he was elected to the Continental Congress. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve years prior, months after the 1992 indictment had been issued, Bill Clinton had been elected President of the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They just elected me a Runner, so you’re buddies with a stud now.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Buoyed by this example of success, thousands of new migrants massing in the city’s second ward in 1917 and 1918 took to the polls and elected two black aldermen to represent them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We have a right to go to that school, and I’m certain our governor, who was elected to govern all the people, will decide to do what is just.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should not have said that, not her, not the first black, the first woman, to have been elected to a judgeship in the state. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once elected, Clinton endorsed the idea of a federal “three strikes and you’re out” law, which he advocated in his 1994 State of the Union address to enthusiastic applause on both sides of the aisle. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A vote was taken in the early hours of morning by a show ofhands, and I was elected. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a member of the Advisory Board in the Western Native Township, an elected body of four local people who dealt with the authorities on matters relating to the townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When elected vice president, he was put in charge of the space program. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Within months, he had been elected to the Congress of People's Deputies as a leading figure of the movement for democracy in Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In 1868, former Union general Ulysses Grant was elected president, succeeding Andrew Johnson. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

You didn’t get elected if you didn’t first submit to the full-bore scrutiny of the American gaze, which ran itself over your entire history, including your social associations, professional choices, and tax returns. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Grandma told me that Ji-li wasn’t elected a Red Successor because her classmates asked about our family class status.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. King, elected just that morning as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was the main speaker. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“If I’m elected president,” he said, “I think maybe we will go to the moon.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If enough men and women voted for her to be elected as our congressman, then who knew? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Frederick’s successor, his son Christian, was only 11 when the King died, and the Danish nobles elected four of their number to serve as Protectors until he reached the age of 20. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four years earlier, he had been the youngest mayor the city had ever elected. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Capricorn Anderson was elected eighth grade president, unopposed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

When the game concluded, Nigro approached Regina and Bobby and introduced himself as the newly elected president of the Brooklyn Chess Club. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But no, I elected for another free period where I could shut down and nap. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Indeed, if Barack Obama had been elected president back then, I would have argued that his election marked the nation’s triumph over racial caste—the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Anthony called the first meeting to order, and Stanton was elected to serve as president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He’d been elected to the General Assembly in Hartford, but he’d been pushed out of it by the Patriots for being a Tory. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, when the tribe created its first court system, which adjudicated mostly minor crimes, he was elected one of the three judges. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As poverty became a growing problem in the new republic, he called the meeting that organized the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, and was elected its first president. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Dalton tried to avoid all honors, he was elected to the Royal Society against his wishes, showered with medals, and given a handsome government pension. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That’s when one of the attorneys told us that an elected official does not have to appear to answer a summons. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could a brand-new student, who didn’t know a soul in the place, get himself elected president? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Ten Red Successors were to be elected from each class. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says now Patrice Lumumba and the other elected Congolese are trading chickens and eggs to set up a government that everybody in the parliament will go along with. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dodged impeachment but was not elected to office in 1868. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even Mr. Bracket, who had been elected by the chickadees to test whether or not it was too stormy for good hunting, would appear for a few hours and disappear. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In April 1893 the citizens of Chicago elected Carter Henry Harrison to his fifth term. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I had elected, in my fevered search for honorable adjustment to the American scene, not to submit and in doing so I had embraced the daily horror of anxiety, of tension, of eternal disquiet. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the Fort Hare constitution, the entire student body elected the six members of the SRC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

School officers were to be elected on April 24. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was elected to a second term. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The fact that I had elected to tell the truth one time did not diminish my ability to lie accurately when the occasion demanded it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then there would be an election to see which stuffed animal would be elected ruler of the world. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was the right to be elected to office. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many will wonder how a nation that just elected its first black president could possibly have a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And the case seemed to have little impact on Southam’s professional standing: soon after the end of his probationary period, Southam was elected president of the American Association for Cancer Research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was a celebrity now, newly elected to the Red Guards Committee, one of only nine people elected by all the Red Guards in the school. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortune presents her a second chance in the form of an impoverished doctor—in fact, a prince in disguise who has elected to work among the needy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the conference I was elected president of the ANC without opposition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The US Capitol, the Washington Monument, and the White House. Did you know that plans for a monument started before Washington was elected president?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He received nothing from Fortune but the opportunity, for as the citizens of Syracuse were oppressed, they elected him as their captain, and from that rank he proved himself worthy of becoming their prince. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Montana had gone for George W. Bush in the last election but had also elected a Democratic governor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but as you saw...a number of board members have elected...” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He devoted a full two months to revising Washington’s draft, amplifying Madison’s earlier account of the need to rise above party differences and rally behind the elected representatives of the national government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after the election, I’d gone with Barack to Washington for a daylong orientation offered to newly elected senators and their spouses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It is not often,” Buckley continued, “that a representative of the people finds the masses of the citizens who elected him to office standing literally at his back, waiting for him to enforce the law. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“When the Red Guards were elected at my sister’s school, the class status of the candidates was taken into account. Shouldn’t we do the same?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not only a display of pinpoint precision and military force, but a demonstration of the military’s loyalty to democracy, to a new government that had been freely and fairly elected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Constitution is suspended and the regional government and elected assemblies are hereby dissolved. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A backer of Israel who called himself “A Friend of Justice” argued that if the oath were uniformly required, not a single legislator could claim to be legally elected. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

For secretary they elected Sullivan, who most decidedly was not a happy pupil of Hunt’s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He also insinuated that the Democrats may fall victim to the very scenario that got Trump elected in 2016. George Will to Bill Maher: Robert Mueller’s investigation is unconstitutional 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

Book removals have exploded in recent years, and have become a galvanizing issue for conservative groups and elected officials. Attempts to Ban Books Doubled in 2022 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

The Seattle museum’s namesake is the late Wing Luke, a Seattle City Council member in the 1960s who became the first Asian American to hold elected office in the Northwest. Wing Luke Museum now part of parks service 2013-02-11T02:58:29Z

The Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol believed they were owed this opportunity to terrorize their elected representatives. Perspective | Many of the images from the Capitol riot showed the terror. One highlighted the smugness. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

Most of the students elected to bend their heads down and shuffle their feet. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

He was elected from a largely Jewish Montreal constituency and remained there throughout his years as Prime Minister. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

It felt similar to the episode of “Friday Night Lights” in which Tyra is elected class president by resorting to dirty tricks like having her sister’s stripper friends hand out fliers. Riff: Why Is That Nice Girl From ?Friday Night Lights? Fighting a Bunch of Ninjas? 2012-03-09T19:22:00Z

After the fall of the Taliban, post 9/11, her father worked as an adviser to the interim government, before he was elected president in 2014. 'They went to crazy lengths' - amazing Afghan films the world never got to see 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

The premise: A young American is elected to the papacy. These Are the 20 New TV Shows You Should Watch in 2017 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Maybe the president believed on some level that, once he was elected, it would stay that way. A Man You Can Bait with a Skit 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

The new Republican Party, having just elected its first president, was opposed to any compromise with those who had lost the election. 'We Have the War Upon Us': Trying, and failing, to prevent the Civil War 2012-09-19T21:10:06Z

In 2008, when Obama was elected, I was with friends in Harlem. Election Day in the East Village: Singing Helps 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Though a firm believer in the separation of church and state, I think every elected official in this country should be required to participate in Gonzaga’s program. Letters from magazine readers 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

She was an elected representative to a community council. Thank You for Asking 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

If elected, Clinton would not be the first or only female head of state in the world. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

The audience was ecstatic—they hadn’t seen this pair since 2008, the year Obama was elected. Kiki and Herb Make America Great Again 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Then, a few months later, he had been elected a Junior Fellow. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z

One is her close but often fraught relationship with Ronald Reagan, who was elected president during her first term. Missionary zeal 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

When my buddies made their annual trip to the Turkish baths on 10th Street, I visited the Met, where I elected to pay five dollars for admittance instead of the recommended 15. Rejected: One man’s endless search for a media internship 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, it’s inventing fictional presidents who fulfill the fantasy of macho heroics inspired by the youthful and vigorous men whom we’ve elected to the presidency since 1992. Commando in Chief: 10 Tough-Guy Movie Presidents 2013-07-01T09:45:40Z

We saw a version of this after Trump was elected in 2016. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Greene posted a video to her social media accounts shortly after Rep. Kevin McCarthy was elected as House Speaker following a lengthy and highly divisive process. Dr. Dre stills Marjorie Taylor Greene as Twitter locks her account 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

The personal choices of the rich do not closely match the spending choices of democratically elected governments. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Kanin, who committed herself to the preservation of early Hollywood movies, was first elected president by a board consisting of 34 men and one woman. Fay Kanin obituary 2013-03-31T16:20:21Z

“After Trump was elected, I said, ‘Hey, this isn’t for me anymore. Is there such thing as a Joe Biden superfan? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

I'm like, "Okay, well this is what you promised and people elected you, so you're doing what you promised." Kal Penn on why Democrats are losing and what constitutes a patriotic comedy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Conservative voters elected conservative politicians who appointed conservative judges. Perspective | The unmerciful ending of Roe v. Wade 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

She's the first lady, not an elected official, and there's nothing wrong with her putting her daughters before her duties. Motherlode Blog: Michelle Obama's Children Come First. Should They? 2012-09-05T17:55:03Z

The expansion of law enforcement paralleled the rise of Black elected officials, creating a Dickensian fork in the road for much of the African-American community. Recasting ‘Riots’ as Black Rebellions 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

There are many political stars in the class of freshmen elected to Congress last year. For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

If Detroit were to go bankrupt, an emergency financial manager takes over, and they have the power to end collective bargaining and fire anyone at will, including elected officials. “Detropia”: Can Detroit be saved? 2012-09-07T17:45:00Z

It has been in one since Trump was elected president. Filmmaker James Stern on the era of “American Chaos”: “Worst situation since the Civil War” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

The other is Kevin R. Steele, the newly elected district attorney, who in December, citing new evidence, reversed that decision. Cosby Case Highlights a Rivalry Between Two Lawyers 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

She does not have a specific talent; nor is she elected by a popular vote. The Rose Queen of Texas 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Either get out in front and lead, or be part of the process that you have been elected to be a part of.” As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the UK’s culture wars still seem less savage than in America, where things have ramped up since a certain reality TV star was elected president in 2016. Worst job in showbiz: why will no one touch the world's glitziest gigs? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

In “Tail! Spin!,” a clever comedy revisiting hanky-panky-in-high-office scandals, we are reminded how frequently sexual misbehavior and political posturing have clashed, to mortifying effect, in the lives of elected American officials in recent years. Rachel Dratch in ‘Tail! Spin!,’ a Political Comedy of Errors 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

On the flight were artists, company leaders, the first woman elected to the city's school board and other leaders. Paris plane crash spurs cultural growth in Atlanta 2012-05-31T09:31:05Z

The Emanuel clan includes Rahm, the former White House chief of staff who was elected mayor of Chicago this year, and Ari, the Hollywood agent who inspired a character on “Entourage.” ArtsBeat Blog: Warning to Rahm and Ari Emanuel: Big Brother Was Watching, and He Has a Book 2011-11-16T18:31:38Z

At 25, she helped him get elected to the U.S. What Warren Buffett, Richard Branson and Other Successful People Were Doing at Age 25 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Though Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party wants the country to be independent from the U.K., its policy is to retain the monarchy, though many of its members say they would prefer an elected head of state. Queen Elizabeth reflects on ‘deep’ affection for Scotland 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

Before he was elected Pope, the former CardinalJoseph Ratzinger was known by such critical epithets as "God's rottweiler" because of his stern stand on theological issues. Pope marks milestones amid signs of frailty, succession talk 2012-04-15T10:55:00Z

Thanks to Canada’s parliamentary style of government, these local yokels determine who the prime minister is based on a majority of that party’s members elected. John Oliver to Canada: Arrest me. “Canada is America’s next-door neighbor. Stephen Harper is her dickhead boyfriend” 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Then, he gets elected and he starts doing all of those things with the same rhetoric. Kal Penn on why Democrats are losing and what constitutes a patriotic comedy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The St. Louis Symphony drafted an email urging its board members to call their elected representatives. Arts Groups Draft Battle Plans as Trump Funding Cuts Loom 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

We don't know where it's coming from and that disables us as viewers as members of the public from assessing what the influences on these elected officials are. Who’s buying our elections? Inside the shadowy world of “Dark Money” 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

The study of political institutions helps us to understand the context and rules that influence how elected officials, other representatives and bureaucrats behave. Philosopher Susan Neiman: "The president of our country is evil" 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

It is a consecrated space where important liturgies are celebrated and where popes are elected. Sistine Chapel tourists to be vacuumed and cooled to protect frescoes 2012-12-21T14:40:51Z

According to Bee, she and her producers on the show “Full Frontal” were inspired to create the “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner” shortly after Trump was elected in November. Samantha Bee is proposing an alternative to this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

He grappled with the handling of credit cards for committee business as he criss-crossed the state campaigning among his legislative colleagues for support to be elected House speaker, Rubio recalled in his 2012 memoir. Inside Marco Rubio’s messy American Express statements 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

“Mentoring is a big part of what we do. It’s how newly elected trustees find their way.” Museums Special Section: Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons 2014-03-19T20:40:58Z

After midnight on Tuesday, with the election results sinking in — and hours before she would see her father grabbed and handcuffed — she asked me, “How could a country that elected Barack Obama do this?” I marched with my daughter and got arrested — and I’m proud 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Prior to the 2012 election, Clooney told ABC News: “I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama … I’m a firm believer in sticking by and sticking up for the people whom you’ve elected.” How Obama blurred the border between Hollywood and Washington 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

“When I’m elected I will start building homes that will provide shelter, education and health facilities to the transgenders,” Kashish said. Pakistan transgender leader calls for end to culture of 'gurus' 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

Ad-Rock was joined by local elected officials and religious leaders in the community, according to Rolling Stone, reporting that Senator Daniel Squadron, who represents the Brooklyn neighborhood, was in attendance. Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock Speaks Out Against Hate at Park Rally 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

When Ricks describes how they behaved toward one another, he is also describing how our elected representatives behave toward one another. Eleanor Roosevelt Buying Pears and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

America was still reeling from having elected a man who presented himself as a xenophobic racist, and was heard on tape giggling about grabbing women by the p***y. Pamela Adlon wants you to let "Better Things" wash away the anger 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

“If he can’t jump over the top, he’ll creep under the bottom,” she wrote in a column extolling their long history just after he was elected. Want the Scoop on Team Trump? Pay Attention to Cindy Adams 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Suu Kyi was elected to Parliament in Myanmar, also known as Burma, last month; took her seat May 2; and launched an international tour Tuesday starting in neighboring Thailand. Forget Gaga; Indonesia wild for own raunchy shows 2012-05-30T13:48:00Z

Waiting for him at the next event, a roundtable discussion with local elected officials from the Fort Worth area: a man with a fresh cup of coffee. Beto O’Rourke gets more attention than any other 2018 candidate. Will it translate to votes? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

All eyes turned to Washington this week as America elected Donald Trump to be our next president. Books: Loving libraries, now more than ever 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Dirty Harry’s values are the values of the angry white men who elected Richard Nixon in 1969, and they are the values of the angry white men who elected Donald Trump 47 years later. The meaning of Clint: what watching 40 Eastwood films has taught me 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

"We hope that this war, which we elected you to withdraw from, is ended before your younger daughter is deployed." Retired SF literary figure hits the streets 2011-10-15T15:02:09Z

And as for their criticisms of China's financial influence, conservative elected officials like Sen. Cotton have also repeatedly opposed legislation to restrict the power of money in politics. Conservatives pile on John Cena following apology to China 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

This was the context in which Hitler was elected. The Moral Failings of American Press Coverage of Nazi Germany 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

One was Lillia King, the daughter of Cyril E. King, the second elected governor of the island for whom the airport is named. ‘The Island Always Brings You Back’: Finding a Caribbean Home 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The implication sometimes seems to be that we can restore democracy by rising up to defeat our newly elected leader, Katniss Everdeen-style. An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Pearl Jam finished in the top four in the fan vote along with ELO, Journey and Yes, which helped it get elected in the band’s first year of eligibility. 6 things to know about Pearl Jam’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Clark elected to take one master painting at a time out of storage, and to show each selection in a series of exhibitions titled “Picture of the Month.” ‘Kenneth Clark’ Paints a Portrait of a Cultural Titan 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

At a time when a lot of his generation was struggling to get their own apartment, he was getting elected to the House of Representatives. Cultural Studies: Paul Ryan, a Wake-Up Call for Gen Xers - Cultural Studies 2012-08-24T17:49:42Z

But the notion of audience participation is scarcely new: here it becomes a consensual game, with hints of horror to gratify those of who have elected to take part. Dance Review: ‘The Shining’ by Yvonne Meier 2012-12-13T23:06:57Z

By then, the character of Mrs. Clinton, as the newly elected leader of the country and the object of Xue’s affection, was established in the script. 2 Tony Winners Try to Upend Rodgers and Hammerstein 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Those two things happening simultaneously were going to be a big historical turn along the lines of Roosevelt and Reagan getting elected. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z

How long has she been feeling like this – since Trump was elected? Elizabeth Banks: ‘My film is loaded with sneaky feminist ideas’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

An elected official in Las Vegas is demanding a name change for McCarran International Airport, claiming that the airport’s namesake was a “racist anti-Semite.” Las Vegas official urges name change for McCarran Airport, claims namesake was 'racist anti-Semite' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

In the age of a bullying Internet culture, the trolling community has now elected one of its own as president of the United States. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

For the past two years, the Oscars’ all-white voting body elected a group of nominees that looked exactly like they did; not a single person of color was nominated for an acting award. The revolution is bigger than “Hamilton”: This year’s Tony nods offer much-needed contrast to #OscarsSoWhite 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

GPs and elected members could be said to have a shared world view forged in clinical and non-clinical surgeries that provide regular contact with those they serve and help. Today in healthcare: Tuesday 20 November 2012-11-20T16:53:00Z

The people who elected Mr. Trump are people whose expectations have been raised by the connivance of the market. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

Ms Chozick, this paper and most of the press ignored that fatal flaw and that alone should disqualify her for any elected or appointed office. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

In Episode 3, Pressley delves into the experience of delivering her 2018 victory speech as a newly elected congresswoman with braids. ‘The Hair Tales’: Stories of Black Women’s Hair and Self-Acceptance 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Remember when the country elected Clarkson as its first American Idol? Kelly Clarkson's return to American Idol makes us long for a bygone era 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

He fantasizes that if elected she will release the pent-up idealism she’s been clinging to since college, resulting in a flurry of landmark legislation reminiscent of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous first 100 days. Review: ‘Michael Moore in TrumpLand’ Isn’t About Donald Trump 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Which is why it was so important for Marvin Miller to be elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, and also why it will never happen. R.I.P. Marvin Miller, baseball’s FDR 2012-11-28T17:26:00Z

The presenters haven't gleefully laid into the government as much since the Tories were elected, and the whole palaver over the unmasking of The Stig put a permanent blot on the Top Gear copybook. Why Top Gear has stalled 2011-02-28T10:18:16Z

Surely, judges must interpret all of the text that follows this Preamble consistent with these visionary principles, which inevitably entails the skills of judgment for which judges are appointed or elected. Scalia’s shameless political agenda 2012-10-01T19:53:00Z

That November, when Ronald Reagan was elected president, Gamscam was another reason Republicans won the governor’s chair in Olympia, an event that has not been repeated. ‘Close to the Flame’: the rise and fall of Gordon Walgren 2013-06-28T21:40:56Z

He writes that military leaders “intrigued with parts of the press to destabilize or frustrate the elected politicians whom many of them essentially despised,” and that Lloyd George “had long been a canny media operator.” Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

We have a statewide elected official, an AG Keith Ellison in Minnesota. Muslim-American comics after 9/11: "I thought comedy was over, but it was more important than ever" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Not only do some candidates slip out of campaign promises, but even the most honest ones cannot foresee the issues they will face once elected. 'All the Truth Is Out' probes the repercussions of Gary Hart's affair 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

At 18, Mr. Moore became the youngest elected official in the country. Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Senate a decade ago and placing third in the Republican primary, Ravenel was elected in 2006 as state treasurer in South Carolina. As cameras roll, South Carolina reality show cast member makes bid for U.S. Senate 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

In a world still filled with monarchies, how should an elected president be regarded? 'The Art of Power': Thomas Jefferson shapes the republic 2012-11-20T21:35:18Z

He also understates the hawkishness that Kennedy deployed to get elected and his brother Robert displayed during the missile crisis. Steve Sheinkin’s Explosive Sequel to ‘Bomb’ 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

He was a newly elected United States senator from Georgia and wanted to make a strong impression, but fireworks were not his style. “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and releases Happy-Go-Lucky, starring Sally Hawkins. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

Absolutely, all the way down the ticket and having that voter engagement and that dialogue with your elected officials. Who’s buying our elections? Inside the shadowy world of “Dark Money” 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

Two class action lawsuits were also filed against Trump in connection with the training programme, which was never licensed as a university; Trump settled all three cases for $25m after being elected as president. Sacha Baron Cohen hints at project satirising Trump University 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

But I also think that blaming individuals for decisions that elected officials, who happen to be their age, made is not particularly productive. Our political future is in millennial hands — even if it feels like boomers will never retire 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

She has already faced backlash after mistakenly suggesting in a tweet that district attorneys in the state were appointed, not elected. Celebrity politicians test voter interest in post-Trump era 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

Hillary seems to be left to be elected by everyone but them. Exile in political Guyville: Why getting Hillary Clinton elected isn’t “women’s work” 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Schwarzenegger later said he "behaved badly sometimes" and was twice elected to the governorship. Shriver files papers to divorce Schwarzenegger 2011-07-02T01:26:07Z

Mr. Trifonov, who is the current star soloist of the Philharmonic’s three-week Rachmaninoff festival, was elected to the board on Nov. 13. Trifonov Joins Philharmonic Board 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Long-term solutions will require elected officials and industry leaders to make significant institutional changes. Food prices are not the only obstacle to achieving food security 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Andrew Jackson, elected in 1828, engineered a kind of populist revolt. Presidential Portraits: Staring History in the Face 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Then, in 1997, the city elected a liberal government that promoted social and economic reforms. My Mexico City Is Everyone’s Now 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Rather than comment directly on Trump, however, Davis raised questions about what it means that Americans elected him in the first place. Celebrities Who Called Out Donald Trump at the Golden Globes 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Jean arrived in Haiti from Belgium, where he held a concert - possibly one of his last for five years if elected, he said. APNewsBreak: Jean seeks dual citizenship for Haiti 2010-08-15T01:34:00Z

Eight French politicians will disguise themselves as citizens struggling with real-world problems in a TV show aimed at narrowing the gap between France's often remote political elite and the public they are elected to serve. Undercover French politicians sample 'real life' for TV show 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday afternoon, I drove from New York to Wellesley College, because I wanted to be in a world of women when the first female President of the United States was elected. Waiting for the Female Future at Wellesley 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Each year, thousands of tourists and schoolchildren pass by the work, as do their elected representatives. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

It is popular across party lines: Rush Limbaugh threatened to leave over the Affordable Care Act, and the actor Stephen Baldwin threatened to leave if Obama was elected. Not Happy With the Candidates? How to Try Out a New Country 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

We were elected to change things, so we did change things. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

He began his campaign when he was first elected, in a very idealistic way. Sons Of Anarchy: 'don't touch the Harleys' 2013-02-02T08:00:00Z

But Trump thought that the same tactics that got him elected would serve him well in office. Master of celebrity: How Trump uses — and bashes — the famous to boost himself 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Iraqi intellectuals say they will tolerate none of the same kinds of limitations from the country's new, democratically elected government. Iraq aims to revive movie-going stifled by Saddam, war 2011-04-28T10:22:37Z

In recent years, companies have begun pulling back from South Africa’s coast, an area now considered “overmined,” and turning their company towns over to locally elected councils. Pigeons: Nuisance Animals, or Expert Accomplices in Diamond Smuggling? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

A biopic of Barbara Jordan, the first southern black woman to be elected to the House of Representatives, is in the development stage. 'The voice of the voiceless': how Viola Davis and Julius Tennon are changing the face of Hollywood 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

I said, "If I get elected governor, I promise you, we're going to try to do something about this." Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan: ‘At some point, there’s no longer going to be a Donald Trump Party’ 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

Here in the UK, director Michael Winterbottom elected to shoot his prison drama Everyday over a five-year period, embedding a real-time ageing process into the fabric of his film. Time and motion pictures: from Boyhood to old age, Everyday 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

In Poland’s first free elections in 1989, Wajda was elected to the Senate and served for two years. Leading Polish Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

It may soon be possible to trace the lives of runaway slaves who were eventually elected as convention delegates. Colored Conventions, a Rallying Point for Black Americans Before the Civil War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

What if they got the information directly from elected officials and presented it without a spin? Captain America is trying to … captain America 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Grandpre argued that gerrymandering not only handicaps Republicans in general elections, but also limits the kind of Democrats that get elected. A tour of what may be the nation’s most bizarrely gerrymandered district 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

“King Charles III,” written in iambic pentameter by Mike Bartlett, imagines a future where the monarch subverts tradition and refuses to rubber-stamp the wishes of the elected government. 'King Charles III' to Reign on Broadway in October 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, Queens, said that Mr. Barker was elected to the co-chairman position at a board meeting in October and will officially assume the role on Feb. 1. Michael Barker Elected Co-Chairman of Museum of the Moving Image 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

He was elected as a governor of its documentary branch last year and is working to improve its diversity. 'We can't wait for Hollywood to change' - the directors reframing black history 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

They named him after Samora Machel, who led the Mozambique rebel army to victory against Portuguese colonizers and became the country’s first democratically elected president. Say you want a transformation? Composer Samora Pinderhughes searches for uncompromising unity through music 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

His inspiration was Lena Dunham, of “Girls” fame and “as daring as flatulence,” who recently declared her intentions to leave the United States should Trump be elected. Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld: If you want to leave the U.S. for Canada if racist Trump is elected, “you’re the real bigot” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

“The day after Trump was elected I happened to be home in New York. I went to bed for the day,” says Dowd. Ann Dowd on The Handmaid's Tale: it's a form of activism 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

But He Kept Us Out of War March 4, 1849: President James Polk’s term ends, but his elected successor, Zachary Taylor, refuses to take the oath of office on a Sunday. Style Invitational: Songs without end (or beginning) 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

He's the president that the American people through the electoral college elected. Why Ari Fleischer is against resurrecting the extinct White House press briefings 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

Edwards, who is the elected liaison between the actors and their union, decided he was not going to wait for the creative team and theater officials to brainstorm best practices. ‘Godspell’ in 2020: Masks, Partitions and a Contactless Crucifixion 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

“In the case of Brazil we see how films took a seismographic reading of the mood of the country before the current president was elected,” he added. Oppression and its opponents shape a political Berlinale 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

It was a tough campaign, but as soon as it was over, I endorsed him and worked hard to get him elected. Hillary Clinton and America Ferrera on Pain and Progress (and Hiking) 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

"There are always going to be people who don't fit into boxes," said Victoria Kolakowski, who was just elected a superior court judge in Alameda County in California. Bold crossings of the gender line 2010-12-09T03:20:00Z

In 1970, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Design. At 99, the Painter Richard Mayhew Is Still Upending Expectations 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

She was elected in the Western Jurisdiction of the UMC, which includes Colorado, Arizona and Utah. War over gay clergy brings a whole religion to “the brink of schism” 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

The charges against him are so ugly that they don’t fit very easily into polite conversation, let alone into a narrative about someone we have elected to lead the United States. How Educational Children’s Books Are Explaining President Trump 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

He is a sheriff, the only law enforcement officer who is elected and therefore directly responsible to his constituency, his people and his land. Longmire’s creator explains why we’re so fascinated with the American West 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

He got elected to the state legislature the year he graduated. Sherrod Brown was talking like Elizabeth Warren way before she was. So why isn’t anyone urging him to run? 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

After Obama was elected, we started seeing these horrible things bubbling up on social media — about growing watermelons at the White House or casting him and Michelle as monkeys. Alison Saar on Transforming Outrage Into Art 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

You see folks on the left who are moving towards the center and saying, "Oh, this is the best chance to get elected by moving to the center." Kal Penn on why Democrats are losing and what constitutes a patriotic comedy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

If Donald Trump gets elected president this fall, the Thrones team might not give him the same coveted access. President Obama is the Only Person in the World to Get Advance Episoides of Game of Thrones 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

It’s hardly a surprise that she’s been elected the first-year class president. Exchanging Slippers For Schoolbooks 2010-12-03T15:27:00Z

After winning six local races, she was elected mayor. Houston’s Annise Parker, a gay mayor in a red state, ponders political future 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

She was elected in a special category, set up in 1983, honouring work falling "outside traditional departments". Streep elected to elite academy 2010-04-13T08:20:00Z

That somebody who participated in abject racism and sexism would be elected to the highest office in the land. "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

When Obama was elected we didn’t fight, but he had clearly become a Republican and we couldn’t talk about politics any more. Love across the divide: couples on Brexit, politics and religion 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

No Black candidate had been elected mayor of Buffalo before Byron Brown became the first in 2005. In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

But Marley is convinced that, sometimes, it's too important a task to be left to elected officials. Damian Marley and Nas: 'We have a lot in common' 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z

The absolutely crucial part of it is that the second chamber would have been elected indirectly, so they would never be able to challenge the primacy of the commons. Glastonbury 2013: views from Leftfield 2013-06-30T16:00:02Z

He entered mainstream politics and 25 years later, having charmed the country with his modest way of living and his bracingly spontaneous campaign style, he was elected Uruguay’s 40th president. A Political Prisoner Restores His Mind by Talking to a Frog 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

That pragmatic understanding is, after all, what got Obama elected. Tony Kushner: 'It's a crazy time' 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z

She was charged with corruption related to her husband’s time in office, but was never convicted and, in 2010, was elected to the House of Representatives. Special Report: Travel Asia: In Manila, ‘Livin’ La Vida Imelda!’ 2012-10-12T23:07:41Z

“Some Republican members were surprised after being elected in 2010 about how difficult it is to get things done in Washington,” said Gonzalez. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z

A group of local business leaders formed a private foundation and purchased the property for $29,000, predicting that it would become a tourist attraction if Reagan was elected president. Reagan’s boyhood home is falling apart. And its director is begging for money to fix it. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

“I support President Trump and the platform upon which he was elected,” Mercer said. Bannon may have lost his fight with Trump — but what does that mean for Breitbart? 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The gospel-trained Houston, whose soaring voice transformed the Dolly Parton cover “I Will Always Love You” into a gigantic hit, was one of four artists elected after being on the ballot for the first time. Whitney Houston, Notorious B.I.G. lead field into rock hall 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

So said Marielle Franco, the Rio de Janeiro city councillor shot dead in a targeted assassination last week, just 18 months after she was elected. Marielle Franco had to resist – no wonder she didn’t survive 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

On Friday, the Disklavier piano was turned toward the audience, allowing viewers to watch for the moments when the Voyager software — running on a nearby computer — elected to depress the keys of the Disklavier. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

After a show trial, Mr Beltagy was sentenced to death last year, along with dozens of other Brotherhood leaders, including the first democratically elected president, Muhammad Morsi. Tales of spring and winter 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

As soon as Donald Trump was elected to the presidency in 2016, it seemed that all eyes turned to rural America for answers. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "Fried Green Tomatoes," Hollywood has a rural perception problem 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Shortly before he was elected governor in 2003, the Times reported allegations from more than a dozen women who said he had groped them or made unwanted advances. Schwarzenegger child report spurs media frenzy 2011-05-18T22:15:23Z

About 40 people signed up to speak, a mix of supporters and opponents, including Malibu residents, environmental groups and elected officials. U2 guitarist's project rejected by coastal agency 2011-06-17T15:27:03Z

He was elected to Congress eight years later with 52 percent of the vote, and re-elected every term thereafter by wide margins. Barney Frank: ‘People almost forgot that I was gay, and I kept reminding them’ 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The film culminates with Mandela's inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa after he urged his countrymen to reject violence following his release from prison. Idris Elba mines Mandela's 'commanding presence' in biopic role 2013-11-26T21:49:48Z

Ms. Guy closed her studio “the day Trump got elected,” she said, and started selling her inventory out of her Williamsburg apartment, while her estranged husband lived in an Airstream around the corner. What Happens When a Weddings Influencer Gets Divorced? 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

It was the anger of New Yorkers about the rich destroying the place that once we called, affectionately, the Big Apple that got de Blasio elected in the first place. Mayor de Blasio’s Plan for Parks Needs to Grow 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Isaacs, elected the academy's first African American president in August, acknowledged that the academy invited fewer women and minorities into the group this year. Motion Picture Academy aims for diversity, invites 271 to join 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Most Americans probably learned the phrase “gaslighting” — when someone tries to manipulate you into doubting reality — around the time Donald Trump was elected president, as it was frequently used to describe his behavior. The ‘Dixie’ is gone. The Chicks are forever. 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

DeMint writes about how he ignored Greene's challenge and instead focused on raising $9 million online for other candidates, many of whom were elected. DeMint chronicles rise of tea party in new book 2011-07-03T19:16:04Z

I would never use my show to get my sister elected. Colbert Busch: Brother won't overshadow SC race 2013-02-16T19:46:04Z

As only the second director in its history, Mr. Attia is proving to be a skilled modern communicator: He uses social media to goad elected officials, or to collaborate with other social-advocacy or small-business groups. A Food Cart Worker’s Biggest Job: Defending Vendor Rights 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

That makes the advanced age of the top 2020 presidential candidates historic: If elected, Warren would be 71 at her inauguration. Can we talk about the senior citizens running for president and how they try to look younger? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

That’s why it’s startling to see bipartisan support for something you might think would be unpopular with politicians: the very local newspapers that hold elected officials accountable. Perspective | Google and Facebook sucked profits from newspapers. Publishers are finally resisting. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Really the first real contact that I had with an elected official was a call from Biden saying that there was going to be a hearing. Anita Hill and her 1991 congressional defenders to Joe Biden: You were part of the problem 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

I adopted all the absolutist positions: co-sleeping and attachment parenting; organic food from a cooperative buying club; breast-feeding on demand until the child himself elected to stop. All my parenting mistakes 2012-06-26T00:00:00Z

But it wasn't until Trump got elected — I was halfway through writing the script . . . that really influenced and colored what would become the prevailing mood and tone of the film. How Trump inspired "Lingua Franca," Isabel Sandoval's romantic tale of a trans Filipina immigrant 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

He faced a poor prognosis, and James elected to stay and help care for him. Star rising: Nikki James of 'The Book of Mormon' 2011-05-17T18:43:08Z

He criticized Trump before he was elected but voted against both impeachments. What if Republicans had a party and Trump wasn’t there? 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Robbins, for one, embodies every sleazy trait fairly or unfairly attributed to our elected representatives. Lies, leaks and threats to our liberties: A new thriller captures the moment 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Hawass said that the newly elected government marks a turning point. Zahi Hawass is on the stump again for ancient Egypt's Pharaohs 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

This volatility does not bode well for the party in power, especially one elected to bring a sense of calm. It’s been a tense year of infighting for Democrats. And this might be as good as it gets. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

At the Chase, two residents have been caught: one incident seems to have been truly an accident; the other involved a two-time offender, a renter and recidivist who was fined and elected to move out. Using DNA to catch canine culprits — and their owners 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

"Though my term was only meant to be 6 weeks, I was thrilled to be elected as your SNL President," the actor said via Twitter. Jim Carrey resigns from Joe Biden duties at "Saturday Night Live" 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z

I remember when Trump was elected and there were people saying, "Well, this is going to be great for comedy at least." "Daily Show" co-creator on how Trump isn't funny and comedy could help save abortion 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Among her noted photos was that of the body of Sicily’s assassinated governor being held by his brother, who 35 years later would be elected Italy’s president. Letizia Battaglia, who shot life and death in Palermo, dies 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

At least someone with those personality traits would never be elected president. The Licentious Life and Times of Jann Wenner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

In a statement released Wednesday, titled "I Will Never Cease to Fight for Love," in English and Spanish, Martin told fans to call their elected representatives "10 times each day until they act." Musicians use song, statements to respond to mass shooting 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Sheinkin explores the consequences of that action on the Vietnam War, the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon and the attitude of the American public toward its elected officials. The National Book Award Finalists in Young People’s Literature 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

I think we may get more change from this – more so, maybe, than if Hillary Clinton had been elected. Nathan Lane: ‘I have played a lot of morally questionable people 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

In the next three years, she worked hard, was elected president of the student government as well as the Glamour magazine representative for the school. The Independent Women of Sweet Briar 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

After suffering corporal punishment as a student, Moore ran on a lark for a position on the school board and was elected as an 18-year-old. Lost on Broadway: Michael Moore's 'The Terms of My Surrender' is a well-meaning misfire 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

They hail from that distant year of 2008, when Barack Obama was just about to be elected the nation’s first black president, a time some of you may recall with a nostalgic sigh. Review: Paging Pablo Escobar in ‘Our Dear Dead Drug Lord’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Cultural assimilation is bound to happen, but we have a Tibetan monastery, schools, nunneries and settlements,” said the elected settlement officer of Dharamsala’s Tibetan Settlement Office. Himalayan refuge: Tibetan traditions find a second home in India’s Dharamsala 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Consequently, Charles was not only the elected emperor of Germany, but also, by birthright, the king of Spain and the duke of portions of Austria, Italy, and the Low Countries. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

After being elected as the director of the village committee at the end of the first half, he seems to undergo something like a change in sides. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

“The Borgia pope, elected just a few months before Columbus made landfall, “was interested in the New World, as were the great chancelleries of Europe,” he wrote. ArtsBeat: Early Images of American Indians Found in a Vatican Fresco 2013-05-06T21:58:47Z

They were elected on an anti-immigration agenda in reaction to Europe’s refugee crisis. An Invisible Artwork Reminds Austria of Its Nazi Past 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Donald Trump is a child, but he was elected because too many of us became children. Outgrowing the cosmetic left: A liberal plea for fake liberalism to grow up 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Before she died, she was awarded medals and elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . ‘The Stargazer’s Sister’ review: What could a woman find in the sky? 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

In fact, she got elected mayor — and was re­elected twice — not on charisma or personal narrative but by positioning herself as an effective manager. Houston’s Annise Parker, a gay mayor in a red state, ponders political future 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

A reality TV show star, fake billionaire and professional wrestling villain was not supposed to be elected president — yet he was. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Yet Tunde’s ordinariness is treated as foreignness, as is the case with so many such Americans — sometimes at the hands of their own unpopularly elected president. A Nigerian-American Bildungsroman, in Mormon Country 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

“A man who does nothing but cast out hate and blame couldn’t possibly be elected to office,” Constance reasons. Review | In ‘Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit,’ being one of the first female sheriff’s deputies is tough business 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

In the April 1991 issue, the writer Adam Platt covered Douglas Wilder, the first elected Black governor in the United States, pondering if he could be the first Black president. Remembering Grace Mirabella and Her Inventive Magazine 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

And, in another regional rarity, Tunis in 2018 elected a woman its mayor. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Obama’s extraordinary first book, “Dreams From My Father,” was published in 1995, a year before he was elected to the Illinois senate, and traced his family history alongside his own coming-of-age. In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

I was in the classroom four days after the inauguration, because I said to Joe when we got elected, ‘Joe, I really want to continue to teach.’ Jill Biden on Joe As President, Her Military Family and Her New Children's Book 2012-06-06T17:45:26Z

I mean, consider who we elected president, and how that’s going. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

All six openly gay members of Congress were returned to Washington, and Oregon’s Kate Brown became the first L.G.B.T. person to be elected governor of any state. Gay America’s Harrowing, Heartening Year 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

And he was appointed by a president elected in no small part by appealing to racism. Perspective | Jeff Sessions sounded like a free-speech champion at Georgetown. That’s absurd. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

She believed fear was what had gotten Trump elected, and here she was, so scared that she was momentarily incapable of being “balanced or fair-minded”: “I was part of the problem that I worried about.” When It Comes to Politics, Be Afraid. But Not Too Afraid. 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Yusuf subsequently distanced himself from such comments and in 2014 he was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. New Yusuf album, first North American tour in 35 years on tap 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

But the demand for elected and public health officials in the early days of the pandemic was different. How Fauci came to receive the ‘ultimate honor’: His own bobblehead doll 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

The Berlin Philharmonic said that Petrenko was elected by a "a large majority" of orchestra members. Berlin Philharmonic names Kirill Petrenko as new chief conductor 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Once Donald J. Trump was elected president, she made a common liberal refrain — “If Trump wins, I’m leaving the country” — reality, deciding not to return home with her daughters, Aubrey and Gabriella. Some Said They’d Flee Trump’s America. These People Actually Did. 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z

Wilder says feelings of isolation and a lack of true human connection have fed into the seismic political shifts that produced Brexit and elected Donald Trump as US president. Let’s talk about intimacy – and why it makes for better love and sex 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

“There are always going to be people who don’t fit into boxes,” said Victoria Kolakowski, who was just elected a superior court judge in Alameda County in California. Bold Crossings of the Gender Line 2010-12-08T22:10:00Z

Related: What #OscarsSoWhite got right – and wrong In a vote on Tuesday night, the governors elected to replace a procedure that Academy CEO Dawn Hudson called “confusing and cumbersome”, in a letter to Academy members. #OscarsBoardSoWhite? Academy overhauls 'confusing' election process 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

“And we not only saved Christmas, we elected Donald Trump as our next president and saved the country!” ‘We have a culture war to win’: Why Starbucks cups always stir up controversy 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

I was so focused on this head-down, focus on the work, I've been elected, now I need to do something with this platform. Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the isolating experience of being ‘the first,’ plus recently confronting an alopecia diagnosis 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in early 2016, Ms. Chapman was elected president of the Professional Bail Agents Association, which opposes bail and bond reform. Dog the Bounty Hunter Is Hunting Alone 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

When Mr. Trump was elected, “we both felt like, ‘Gosh, maybe we want to move to Europe,’” Mr. Jernstrom said from Chile. Some Said They’d Flee Trump’s America. These People Actually Did. 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z

Last week, along with the name change, the Convention elected a fiery black preacher as the first African American president in its 167 year history. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z

That year Giuliani was elected; the economy started to rebound. Wired magazine was launched. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z

In 1994, Mr. Roman was elected dean, or president, of the Friars Club in Manhattan, a citadel for comedians and entertainers to schmooze, eat and play cards. Freddie Roman,Who Brought Catskill Comedy to Broadway, Dies at 85 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Various elected and appointed officials, including Adrian Benepe, the city parks commissioner, were involved. Schumer Has Big Role in Pool Parties Concerts 2010-06-04T18:33:00Z

There is therefore a strong argument that the money donated by philanthropists might be put to better use if it were collected as taxes and spent according to the priorities of a democratically elected government. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Whose followers are muttering publicly about a “revolution” if their man isn’t elected? Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

But her tenure in elected office was pretty brief — only six action-packed years in the House before she lost her nail-biting Senate primary race to Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The Pioneering Bella Abzug 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

We can have someone of that strength of character and conviction, but we would never see Abraham Lincoln elected today. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z

So Trump isn’t the first “actor” we have elected either. 100 days of Sean Spicer: The White House’s press strategy is more sinister than you think 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

In 1974, she was elected to parliament's Upper House as a member of the governing Liberal Democratic Party and served until 1992. Japan's World War II film idol Rikoran dies at 94 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

He also threatened legal action against Showtime — and said Mr. Cohen’s “deceptive and fraudulent behavior is exactly why President Donald Trump was elected.” Sacha Baron Cohen Is Duping Republicans. Is He the James O’Keefe of the Left? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Even among other Black women elected as mayors in Chicago, Atlanta and D.C., In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Geoffrey Hill, elected today to the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry. Geoffrey Hill wins poetry race 2010-06-18T15:14:00Z

Kinda like that guy who has just been elected president.” Clarke Peters: 'I was 15 when I first stuck out my thumb and ran away from home' 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

He's been elected for 15 years straight, every two years or whatever it is, right out of college. Kal Penn on why Democrats are losing and what constitutes a patriotic comedy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

He was recently elected president of the Hungarian Filmmakers Association and plans to continue producing at his Budapest film company, T. T. Filmmuhely, while starting up a film school in Split, Croatia. Bela Tarr Says ?The Turin Horse? Is His Last Movie 2012-02-03T19:43:56Z

Two years after the couple initially met in law school, and then were each elected to the Law Review, they began dating. Zoey Orol, Jonathan Yehuda 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

The class includes countless people who defied long odds; the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, the first Muslim women, the first Native American women. Max Rose came to Congress to do big things. But first, he has to do dumb things. 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

The planet’s elected leaders are also members of a royal family; and while they say they are committed to democracy they still live like swells. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Nuts and Revolts 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Faith leaders, elected officials, and local cultural and social influencers will be recruited to help encourage participation in the trials. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Barack Obama is featured in Breaking the Taboo talking, before he was elected, about how a change in policy was needed, but he said earlier this year that legalisation was not the answer. World leaders lend weight to film urging end to drug prohibition 2012-12-05T16:37:41Z

What we get instead is an endless series of historical anecdotes about a heterogeneous collection of bad leaders ranging from democratically elected nationalists like Modi to genocidal fanatics like Hitler. Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Once elected, their job is to give yet more speeches, have private meetings, engage in debates and maybe write the occasional opinion article. “Mere” speech has powerful consequences 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

He set “Savages” at the time just after President Obama was elected. Books of The Times: ‘The Kings of Cool’ by Don Winslow 2012-06-17T19:58:19Z

Germany had the trappings of a liberal democracy with an elected parliament, but its institutions, other than the Prussian-dominated army, were alarmingly hollow. A toxic monarch 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Then, right as I was finishing the last draft, there was this wonderful turnaround and we elected a new person. Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winner 2010-06-10T17:36:00Z

There he found Salvador Allende, the first elected Marxist national leader in the west, in the early stages of his nationalisation and land redistribution programmes. Patricio Guzmán, Chile's master of documentary, focuses on the stars 2012-07-20T21:55:08Z

An explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist, she was the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Top 10 inspiring female adventurers 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

Someone was recently elected and sworn in to the East Chicago, Ind., city council despite what impediment? Style Invitational Week 1168: Asterisky business — give us nerdy humor 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

She pointed to the broader, public roles of mourning that elected leaders assume in the wake of tragedy. A Consolation of Voices: At the Park Avenue Armory, Mourning the World Over 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Trump has been elected Canada’s leader, prompting a mass exodus of Canadians towards the US. South Park depicts Donald Trump being brutally murdered 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

He was elected a full academician only aged 53 and even then by just one vote. Constable, Turner, Gainsborough and the Making of Landscape 2012-11-23T22:55:21Z

Now, without an elected office, Tancredo is Colorado’s Lord of the Gadflies, spending his days on cable news talking about illegal immigration and holding meetings with fellow members of an unofficial “liberty movement.” The Colorado soap opera that could be a major 2016 headache for the GOP 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

For Trump’s base, stories pointing out the president’s outrages don’t matter — they amount to liberal hand-wringing, just another example, in their eyes, of the media trying to bring down their beloved, duly elected president. Perspective | Tainted by Fox News scandals, Bill Shine now works for us all. No big deal, right? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Very rarely does an elected official achieve the level of distinct coolness that Barack Obama did when sitting across the table from Anthony Bourdain in Vietnam. Shedding the misconception that cooking and politics don't mix 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s the brand that gets you elected: the Big Tent. The Colbert Rapport 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Have younger voters and people of color, the diverse demographic that got him elected and reelected, largely lost hope and lost interest? Circus of GOP talking heads: I spent my post-election day watching Fox News 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

At just 29, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York’s 14th District, is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Tired of Trump books? A new wave of politicians could bring a fresh crop of titles. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Her second novel, It's Classified, explores what would happen if a woman were plucked from relative obscurity and elected Vice President of the United States — only to find herself completely unprepared for the job. Q&A with Palin Advisor-Turned-Novelist Nicolle Wallace 2011-10-05T14:05:00Z

Kamala Harris’s new memoir, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” begins with a prologue set on Nov. 8, 2016, the night Harris was elected a United States senator from California. With a Possible Presidential Bid in 2020, Kamala Harris Talks About Her New Book 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Stern and resolute, Trump has promised to make everything better if elected. Does the American electorate have daddy issues? 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

He supported abolition of clause IV not because of strong views about the merits of private against public ownership, but because he thought it would help Labour get elected. Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z

Some delays are expected because a new culture minister and team were put in place after President Emmanuel Macron was elected last month. Jeff Koons Sent Paris Flowers. Can It Find the Right Vase? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Last year he portrayed Trump in a satirical biopic for Funny or Die, denounced him as “a brat,” and predicted he would be “the actual last President of the United States” if elected. Did Johnny Depp Make Actor Presidential Assassination Joke? 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

"I didn't understand because he hasn't been elected president yet, but maybe Russians already perceive him as the new American president." Trump dolls on sale in Moscow ahead of U.S. election 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

If the Dems cautiously insist on a real human, elected as himself, they could go with the ticket of Sully Sullenberger and that Philadelphia guy who just caught a baby thrown from a burning building. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Tom Hanks (as Mister Rogers) ... and other perfect swing candidates. 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Newt Gingrich couldn’t get elected speaker of the House right now. Gingrich: Romney slinging 'sea of mud' 2012-01-26T18:16:00Z

While vowing to defend the ban in court, McDaniel became the first statewide elected official to endorse same-sex marriage. History shades Arkansas' gay marriage debate 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

The museum supplies visitors with postcards and the addresses of elected officials if you too want to serve notice. Resistance in clay: Ceramic artists speak out against Trump, war and more in 'We the People' 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Then I became an elected councillor, then mayor of the town. Ilhan Omar meets Tan Dhesi: ‘We helped to break a glass ceiling' 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

The reopening of the hall drew several elected officials, who saw it as a hopeful sign for a city still trying to recover from the damage wrought by the coronavirus. David Geffen Hall Reopens, Hoping Its $550 Million Renovation Worked 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

If American voters had elected Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 instead of Woodrow Wilson one wonders if the 1st World War and 20th century would have been radically different. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

"We elected a treatment of bed rest, keeping his blood pressure in the normal to slightly above normal range and use of anticoagulants," the doctor said. Kirk faces long recovery from stroke 2012-01-24T03:03:00Z

It’s not that I’m trying to put it on the same level, but I liken it to Barack Obama being elected president in the United States in 2008. LeVar Burton: ‘Jeopardy!’ host gig began ‘scary,’ ended fun 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Instead, "The Problem" presses more forcefully into its confrontations with elected officials who other interviewers would allow to spew utterly false nonsense without confronting them on it. The problem with "The Problem with Jon Stewart" is that it's not more widely available 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

But now there’s a new threat – a real gross bad guy who is about to become the elected president of Russia! The November Man – first look review: an asinine and horribly rote screenplay 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

The population is in an especially cheerful mood because this is the week Obama is elected, but otherwise little of significance happens on Max's moderately eventful journey, though the reggae music is attractive. Wah Do Dem 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

After all, Farage has for some years now been the MEP for the Southeast of England, which means that he sits in a democratically elected assembly the legitimacy of which he utterly denies. Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands 2013-03-07T11:31:01Z

An enduring mystery of the play is why Minnie, a go-getter with some money of her own, elected to marry him. ‘The Daughter-in-Law’ Review: Sons and Wives 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

"Mr. President, you were elected to lead, you chose to follow and now it's time to get out of the way." Romney's triumph doesn't deter GOP rivals 2012-02-01T12:36:00Z

Police officers and firefighters and car dealers and elected officials were identified among the crowds. The Season of the Snitch 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Church leaders considered him a go-to authority, as did the Renaissance Society of America, an academic association that elected him president in 1998. John W. O’Malley, Leading Catholic Historian, Dies at 95 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

The video of Mr. Biden swearing in newly elected members and greeting their families in the Old Senate Chamber this month provided 86 minutes of viral eloquence on this. A Biden Moment 2013-01-26T01:36:39Z

Even when Selina became president last season, after a surprise resignation, she was already mid-campaign, empowered but not elected, sworn in but not ratified. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Like the drinks that Washington and New Orleans elected, it’s a cocktail that goes back a long way in the city’s history. Spirits: Pisco Punch, a San Francisco classic cocktail with official aspirations

But the case against them was tenuous, and the film, drawing on the arguments of their supporters at the time, maintains that the state elected to punish the 10 simply for engaging in activism. It Started With a Kiss. Then Film Scholars Found More. 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

His research found that people who effectively used humor were more likely to be elected to leadership positions. Want to raise an empowered girl? Then let her be funny. 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Rather than simply using recorded music, which often has a dampening effect on live dance performances, Ms. Tharp has elected to blend Sinatra’s vocals with live musicians. Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z

Six at-large delegates will be elected at the territorial convention, with the other three being the elected party leaders. Close battle for delegates in South 2012-03-13T23:49:00Z

There was a spike in reported episodes of harassment and vitriol directed at women and minorities in the days after Donald J. Trump was elected. L.G.B.T. Gamers Huddle for a Postelection Reality Check 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

It's still a baby compared with its more established sibling, which might explain why famed snowboarder Shaun White has elected to "focus on training" rather than attend. TV highlights 20/03/2013 2013-03-20T07:00:08Z

“We were all joking among ourselves,” McSweeny said, “that if that guy Trump got elected, this would be the most politically prescient piece of opera ever produced in America. Well, that happened.” A new opera about a dictator may or may not be about Trump. It depends whom you ask. 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

Hume was elected to the British Society of Cinematographers in 1964, serving as president for three years. Alan Hume obituary 2010-08-17T17:14:00Z

Can you believe this woman almost got elected vice president? Dead Tree Alert: Shiny Object Lesson 2012-03-02T14:24:47Z

"We won't stop until our goal of giving an elected insurance commissioner the power to reject premium increases is the law," Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court wrote in an e-mail. Blue Shield of Calif. cancels proposed rate hike 2011-03-16T20:40:21Z

“Bloody” paint handprints began to show up on pavements and windows, trailing elected officials who, the demonstrators argued, were effectively guilty of murder. Recalling One Activist Group’s Outraged Art at the Height of the AIDS Crisis 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

Havel was his country's first democratically elected president after the nonviolent "Velvet Revolution" that ended four decades of repression by a regime he ridiculed as "Absurdistan." Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z

Before Mr. Daniels’s predecessor, Amelia Powers Gardner, was elected as the clerk and auditor in 2018, the Utah County clerk’s office was seen as something of a mess. Utah Is a Destination Wedding Hot Spot, No Travel Required 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

That was the only reason I was elected — without you, I would have lost by a lot! Style Invitational Week 1425: Picture this — a cartoon caption contest 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

The 11 members of the elected musicians’ committee automatically sit on the board, which can have up to 50 members. Sweet Sounds of Truce at Aspen Music Festival 2010-08-11T18:43:00Z

Last year, the Academy elected a casting director, David Rubin, as president for the first time. Casting directors are essential to any great film – so where are their Oscars? 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

When it was released in November 2008, a week to the day after Barack Obama was elected president, Taylor Swift was still an ordinary famous person, not yet a superstar. Review | Taylor Swift’s new take on ‘Fearless’ piles on the nostalgia, along with some revenge 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z

This tradition continued into the 70s, where brilliant films such as The Godfather II, The Candidate and Chinatown reflected the American public's distrust of their elected officials. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z

The Los Angeles arts scene is about to lose its best friend among elected officials, as Zev Yaroslavsky steps down from the county Board of Supervisors after 20 years, having run up against term limits. Candidates in L.A. supervisors' 3rd District race issue arts support 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Those comedies are fitting fare for a Democrat who assured people that Republicans would be willing to work with him once we was elected. On the Iron Anniversary of "Game of Thrones," here's hoping Joe Biden doesn't go Ned Stark on us 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

A rival scholar is elected to bring her back, but Frederica doesn't want to return. Local books: buried secrets, Amanda Knox's travails, time-traveling and BC parks 2011-08-08T21:32:03Z

Mac returned to Shakespeare’s play after Donald Trump was elected President. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

Media critics have taken TV anchors and reporters to task for doing this since before Trump was elected. The impeachment party is in full swing with the media as its unprepared host 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

It's a waste of everyone's time and we should be firm in making it clear to our elected leaders that we consider it outside their brief. David Mitchell: I'm glad the asbo is going, but most rebranding is just a distraction 2011-02-13T00:05:37Z

Three months later, two of the candidates were elected as board members — and yellow buses returned to Pueblo. Enrique Garcia Naranjo, on the importance of being Mexcellent 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Donald J. Trump was elected by America’s wealthy as well as its working class. 6 Books to Help Understand Trump’s Win 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Trump, if elected to the Oval Office, has stated that he would “strongly consider” appointing Supreme Court judges who will ensure that marriage equality is overturned. Donald Trump thinks LGBT lives matter—but only if they’re victims of a terrorist attack 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Estrada has since promised to clean up the capital after being elected mayor of Manila in last week's elections. Manila less than thrilled at Dan Brown's Inferno 2013-05-24T05:30:00Z

As far as Trump being elected in 2020 goes, I'm hesitant to come to a firm conclusion so early. Donald Trump and the “N-word”: Many voters would still support him — but not enough 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

In this week’s annual vote, about a third of the seats on the academy’s board of governors — elected by various craft branches, representing directors, actors, publicists and so on — are up for grabs. Board Elections to the Motion Picture Academy Have Rare Sizzle 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

At the event in Albany last month, the crowd roared its approval when Abrams, who quit the legislature after 10 years to run for governor, said she will definitely run for elected office again. Stacey Abrams lost the Georgia governor’s race. But her star is rising. 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

The line shocked many at the time, but Trump’s sentiment proved somewhat prescient: Despite a series of statements that many political observers found outrageous, Trump was elected president last month, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump's boast that he could 'shoot somebody' tops Yale list of 2016's notable quotations 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

In 1992, 24 women were elected as new members to the House and four to the Senate, more than in any previous decade. Anita Hill and her 1991 congressional defenders to Joe Biden: You were part of the problem 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Upon formation of Coalition, key leaders will begin media outreach, e.g. editorial board tours, opinion articles, and brief elected officials in selected states.' Extract: Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton 2010-04-16T09:19:00Z

In Kinston, the county’s most populous community, almost 70 percent of the residents are black, while most of its elected leadership is white. Vivian Howard, a TV Chef, Offers Hope for Her Rural Hometown 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

After Donald Trump was elected president, however, the United States reversed course. When President Obama moved to normalize relations with Cuba 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

If Americans were more familiar with the darkest parts of the country’s past, she argued, “it’s hard to imagine that Trump would have been elected.” What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

She did, however, promise that she would be bringing more dance parties to “close the fun deficit” if elected president. Hillary Clinton Talks Dance Parties With Beyoncé, Michelle Obama 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The list of elected officials who’ve groped and sexted their way to a little side action is impressive, and it’s filled with colorful characters on both sides of party lines. Vance McAllister’s Christian failure 2014-04-09T18:48:00Z

This lark is based on the historic tale of Henri de Valois, a French duke who was elected by the Polish people to be their king. Music Review: ‘Le Roi Malgré Lui’ at Fisher Center for the Performing Arts 2012-07-30T21:52:59Z

Long before he was elected, Donald Trump posed the challenge of being easy to imitate, and thus nearly impossible to satirize. Trump Said, ‘I Have the Best Words.’ Now They’re Hers. 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Their commander in chief is an unnamed woman, the first president elected in modern history without being affiliated with a political party. Review | In ‘2034: A novel of the Next World War,’ it’s man against machine 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

In short: the main challenger, Mir Hussein Moussavi, inspired hope in many Iranians who saw a crack in the government that they expected to widen if he were elected. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Green Wave’ Documents Iran’s Green Revolution 2012-08-17T15:12:40Z

Usher said he was thrilled to collaborate with De Niro, who will play Arcel, the first trainer to be elected to Hall of Fame. Usher gets ready for role as Sugar Ray Leonard 2013-05-03T19:25:09Z

As a result, I was elected to the union library committee, which is as far as I got, and the only genuine election I've ever won. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z

On Inauguration Day, a star is born, and we’re not talking about an elected official. Britney, Bennifer, Beatles and Broadway: Pop culture in 2021 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

By the time George W. Bush was elected in 2000, Kornacki writes, the country’s split was set — “these divisions were geographic, demographic and cultural.” When Tribalism First Entered American Politics 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Trump is “the monster in the tower”; the television that “had elected itself.” In “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem Returns to Detective Noir for the Trump Era 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

In 2021, he was elected chairman of the American Theater Wing, a nonprofit that offers professional development opportunities to emerging theater artists. 5 Shows, 94 Actors, 450 Costumes: Emilio Sosa Dresses Broadway 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

The city elected Socialist mayors for 38 of the last century’s 100 years, and sent the first Socialist, Victor Berger, to the House of Representatives in 1910. 36 Hours in Milwaukee 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

For Oliver, though, that’s not the most unsettling aspect of elected judges. Watch John Oliver Take Elected Judges To Court 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Two years later Mr. Wapner was elected presiding judge of the city’s vast Superior Court system, in which he supervised some 200 fellow judges. Joseph A. Wapner, Judge on ‘The People’s Court,’ Dies at 97 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

“I was horrified after Trump was elected,” he told me. Trump Preparedness: Digital Security 101 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Obama was a favorite of comedians even before he was elected president, but typically his stiffness and aloofness are their targets. Critic?s Notebook: Prez N the Hood: A Hip-Hop Parody Stirs Up Issues 2010-10-25T22:56:00Z

Marie-Hélène Bernard, the president and chief executive of the St. Louis Symphony, said the orchestra had drafted a letter to its board members urging them to call their elected officials. Arts Groups Draft Battle Plans as Trump Funding Cuts Loom 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

And then the counterpart of that is the day after Barack Obama was elected president when, again, not just for me but for white people all over America, black people suddenly became visible. Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store” 2012-09-20T15:25:00Z

Like IVF, egg freezing was initially developed for a specific purpose: young female cancer patients who had to undergo chemotherapy elected to freeze their eggs before doing so. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

The group settled in Turkey, close to the Syrian border, but many members elected to move again following the assassination of Naji Jerf, a Syrian journalist who acted as a spiritual godfather to the group. City of Ghosts director Matthew Heineman: 'Imagine seeing people crucified – every day' 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Newly elected officials include Nancy Utley as vice president and chair of the education and outreach committee, and David Rubin as secretary and chair of the membership and administration committee. Cheryl Boone Isaacs Re-elected as Motion Picture Academy President 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Immediately after Donald Trump is elected president, Jarecki’s camera gazes for the first time out of the back window, throwing a longing look at the landscape, as though bidding farewell to the US. Wheel life: the strange power of films set inside cars 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The typographical design was inspired by the 1970s presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, to whom Harris has linked her campaign. Analysis | Red, white and blah: Why are all these 2020 campaign logos so boring? 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

People don’t get elected unless people like what they say or do. Her daughter died while protesting in Charlottesville. What has life been like since? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Critics, however, wouldn’t relent, slamming Brabin’s frock as “unprofessional,” disrespecting both the House of Commons and her elected position. Politician blasts 'everyday sexism' after being trolled for off-the-shoulder dress 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

But was the revelation accompanied by a bipartisan avalanche of elected officials demanding serious investigation into the matter, saying that it raised questions about the president’s fitness for office? Perspective | Another woman says the president assaulted her. Is anyone listening? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

With every presidential election, there are stories of couples who fell in love while working long hours together to get their candidate elected. On the Campaign Trail, Love Doesn’t Always Win 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

That metaphor in terms of the process of developing a recipe or making change or getting someone elected really resonated for me. On a mission to make America bake again 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

Just counting elected officials and candidates for office, Colbert wins with 11 since September. This is Colbert’s real problem: Conservatives aren’t the issue, it’s mainstream America 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

However, after Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity, Nicholas was elected bishop of Myra. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, elected officials have complained that their opinions on “Fearless Girl” were not considered ahead of the Public Design Commission’s decision. New York Lets ‘Fearless Girl’ Hold Her Ground, for Now 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

He was then a Conservative Party member of Parliament from 2001 to 2008, when he was elected mayor of London in a race that few expected him to win. Boris Johnson, London’s lively mayor, writes about Churchill and muses about his future

A study of elected Texas judges confirmed Fulton’s core finding. Why are men so foolish? 2013-02-17T18:00:00Z

This is an elected official, who still has to figure out, “upon reflection,” that someone with a different point of view has First Amendment rights. Football gets LGBT-positive 2012-09-10T16:25:00Z

On the album Living with War, Young suggested Barack Obama as the next president three years before he was elected, when he was seen as a rank outsider. Neil Young's US God Save the Queen 2012-06-08T11:08:57Z

A man drowned off the coast of Alameda, California, as dozens elected not to go in and save him. Why we still look away: Kitty Genovese, Jamie Bulger and the bystander effect 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Urging residents to call their elected officials about pending legislation? Parents can’t fix climate change with life hacks — but here are ways to make a real impact 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

“If he were to be elected, he brings his chart along with him. And that financial crisis is very strongly configured,” he said. Astrologers predict New Hampshire results: whoever wins will be president 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

That honor went to Nevada Senator Pat McCarran, a silver-pompadoured scourge of the welfare state who had been holding hearings on the question of "Who Lost China?" for a year before McCarthy was elected. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

He was also the first — and to date the only — Roman Catholic elected to the office. A surprisingly modest birthplace for the country’s youngest elected president 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

"I think they are American citizens who are duly elected that are running on an agenda that is disgusting — that the American people will reject." Meghan McCain slams Lindsey Graham for defending Trump 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

If elected, Gingrich pledged to reinstitute the Mexico City policy, which forbids American funds being used to pay for abortions overseas, to move the U.S. Gingrich vows to fight religious persecution 2012-02-04T13:59:00Z

Many of the criticisms of the elected officials in attendance, who are supposed to be public servants rather than celebrities or cultural idols, are fair and even important. From AOC to Cara Delevingne, are the Met Gala’s feminist displays meaningful or just performative? 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1965. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z

When he was elected, she sang at an inaugural ball. Jody Miller, Singer of ‘Queen of the House’ and More, Dies at 80 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

The hosts are Sophia Topping and her husband, Lance, a newly elected Member of Parliament. 'A Week in December': Faulks' novel of 7 London lives over 7 days 2010-03-24T23:34:00Z

In the early 1980s, after France’s newly elected Socialist president François Mitterrand instituted a series of anti-capitalist policies like nationalizing banks and major companies, many French executives, including Bernard, fled to more business-friendly countries. | At Berluti, Antoine Arnault Puts Business Before Pleasure 2013-09-12T08:00:08Z

If she wins in November 2016, when she’ll be 26, she will be the youngest woman ever elected to and to serve in Congress. The congressional kid: How a millennial plans to make it to the Capitol 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The fact is, we know an effective democracy demands a populace ready, willing and able to get riled enough to pressure its elected officials into doing their duty in spite of themselves. We can’t forget John F. Kennedy’s assassination 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

If Romney gets elected, I expect the same nonsense from the other side. Don Berwick, Martyr for Socialized Medicine 2011-11-29T15:27:12Z

“Great. And happy. And relieved,” said Pelosi when asked how she felt about the newly elected Democratic leadership in the House. At state dinner, Biden and Macron stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

So he talks to them as husbands, wives, parents — in short, as human beings instead of just another elected official. Sucking up has always been part of Washington culture. In the Trump era, it’s a sport. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Maybe it’s easier just to wait for a text message that a new pope has been elected. Popealarm.com offers e-notification of new pope selection 2013-03-12T13:14:00Z

Americans of all political beliefs are struggling with these free-speech issues as “fringe groups” become more vocal — empowered by a president elected, in part, by appealing to racism and bigotry. Perspective | To fight bigotry and hate, don’t muzzle it. There’s a better way. 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

In 1858, running as a Republican, he was elected to serve Pennsylvania’s 9th Congressional District. On the trail of Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania’s equal rights champion 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Much of what has been happening in his country, particularly in the years since George W. Bush was elected president, has stirred his spleen. Theater Review: ‘Heresy,’ by A. R. Gurney, at the Flea Theater 2012-10-13T00:30:06Z

Bailey, 75, a movie director and cinematographer, was elected president of the Academy in August 2017. Academy of Motion Pictures chief accused of sexual misconduct: report 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Each of the 17 branches of the academy's board is represented by three governors, who are elected by the branch's members. Academy's new board of governors reflects slowly changing demographics 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

After Trump was elected, Fauci wrote papers describing his work on previous epidemics. Anthony Fauci was ready for this. America was not. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Only 71 percent of Americans now identify as Christian, but a whopping 91 percent of elected members of Congress members, according to the Pew report, consider themselves Christian. Nearly a quarter of Americans are not religious: Why doesn’t that diversity show up in politics? 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Author Calvin Trillin, elected to the academy two years ago, will be a featured speaker. Streep would like to thank the (arts) academy 2010-04-12T15:16:00Z

Since Trump has been elected, two popular opinions have arisen, both containing some questionable version of the truth. Jon Stewart is right: How long will the media play Trump’s game? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

She elected to stay in the country even after her husband was killed in a car accident in 1981 and her teenage son died after being bitten by a snake three years later. 'I Dreamed of Africa' author Kuki Gallmann shot and wounded in attack in Kenya 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

While Though the two have similar jobs, medical examiners are doctors while coroners are not required to be medically trained at all and sometimes must be elected. John Oliver: 'A death certificate isn’t like a degree from USC. It means something' 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

The tab for his three mayoral campaigns was the most any individual personally spent to win elected office. Mike Bloomberg deploys his billions to make a point, from a $1 million couch to a presidential campaign 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Pat Quinn was elected last year, keeping the office in Democratic hands. Federal judges uphold Democratic map 2011-12-07T23:31:00Z

The Five Satins were elected into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2003. Singer Fred Parris of the Five Satins dead at age 85 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

They worried about institutions, the danger of politicians becoming dependent on forces beyond the voters who elected them — or, as Madison wrote, “the people alone.” Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Maybe Novak’s point is that, face to face and heart to heart, we don’t really fight as much as our social media avatars and elected representatives do. ‘Vengeance’ Review: A Dish Best Served With Frito Pie 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Roosevelt, a former secretary of the Navy and a collector of maritime prints, made a much-heralded visit to the shop soon after he was elected in 1932. F.D.R. and Andy Warhol All Came for Art. Now the Movers Have Arrived. 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Just as she was finishing the final draft, President Obama was elected. A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

This approach makes her seem like a relic of a long-gone Washington, where flexibility and the art of reaching across the aisle were desirable traits in an elected official. Claire McCaskill’s balancing act: How to be a moderate in immoderate times 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

It offers contestants a chance to address the Palestinian people on what they would do on a variety of subjects if elected president. Palestinians chose a new president _ on reality TV 2013-05-10T06:30:20Z

The notion that a social democratic party should seek to depose the elected government by siding with the hereditary monarch – Pugh's preferred course – is at least original. Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

Last night, in the suburbs of Philadelphia, four women were elected to the U.S. Cover Story: Barry Blitt’s “Welcome to Congress” 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

And voters let their elected officials know their displeasure in phone calls, emails and town-hall meetings. Perspective | Great local reporting stands between you and wrongdoing. And it needs saving. 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

You served in the first freely elected conservative administration in Hungary. Sebastian Gorka says that Obama was our first celebrity president 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

“While we were shooting Trump got elected, and sort of changed the temperature on the film a little bit,” he recalled at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. ‘Suburbicon’ is the latest film that uses horror to process the realities of 2017 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

Speaking of Black people and white supremacist weirdos, Herschel Walker was almost elected to the United States Senate, campaigning on such serious issues as werewolves vs. vampires. Unpredictable 2022: Mostly devastating losses, with one bright surprise 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Your schools can’t get money for new programs unless elected officeholders agree. Turning around schools with low achievement rates never seem to work 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

So let's stop wasting time on Harris' ethnicity and focus more on her ideas and her likelihood of following through on them if elected. I don't care "how black" Kamala Harris is and neither should you 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

The show closed just a week before Brazil elected Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist, in the country’s most radical shift since the military dictatorship of decades ago. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

In late June, the 28-year-old from the Bronx beat Joseph Crowley from Queens, the fourth-highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, and now stands to be the youngest woman elected to Congress. Can a Bronx socialist help a campaign in Kansas? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will find out soon. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

It usually kicked off with an elected official pleading ignorance. Republicans have ‘concerns’ about Trump — but won’t let reporters quote them by name about it 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

In New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, celebrated in a white shirt and beige skirt. The Congressional Uniform Is About to Change 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

It’s just a coincidence that the U.S. team failed to qualify for the World Cup shortly after we had elected a president who vowed to turn his back on the world. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

It was April, 2014, less than a year after Mohammed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected President, had been removed from office by a military coup. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

From my own perspective, perhaps naively, I think our elected representatives would be better equipped for constructive governance if they gardened more. Perspective | Why I want my politicians to spend some time in a garden 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

"Now, Republicans see these texts as proof of a vast conspiracy within the FBI to stop Donald Trump from being elected president," he added. Watch Stephen Colbert’s hilarious re-enactment of FBI agent Peter Strzok’s insane House hearing 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Schumer plays a saxophone, tries to buy a shirt and is elected president of the United States. What’s on TV Thursday 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The near illegitimacy of the executive and legislative elected branches of government, both in thrall to corporate interests and “checked” only by a judiciary that can’t or won’t rein them in. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

David Duke was trying to just get himself elected or he was moving in that direction. “BlacKkKlansman” author Ron Stallworth: Donald Trump accomplished David Duke’s goal 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Less well known are the 2,800 American men and women who defied U.S. policy and risked their lives to defend Spain's democratically elected government. 'Spain in Our Hearts' tells the American story of the Spanish civil war 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger and newly elected congressman from Colorado, was the first of the gang to select an office with the 10th pick. Max Rose came to Congress to do big things. But first, he has to do dumb things. 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

And, when the military seize power from a democratically elected government, Césaire's attack on colonialism's tainted legacy suddenly acquires a chilling contemporary resonance. A Season in the Congo – review 2013-07-17T12:13:27Z

Bush himself was elected twice in a state with a substantial Hispanic population. Fla. ex-Gov. Jeb Bush working on immigration book 2012-09-12T15:02:09Z

The health report warned, "City and county managers and elected officials should be aware of the potential health risks and costs associated with making publicly-owned facilities available for large commercial events such as raves." Las Vegas embraces rave shunned by Los Angeles 2011-04-22T10:31:05Z

"I hope that our elected officials can reach out to the State Department to expedite visas for these families." Russia-Ukraine war: Kentucky mom of 8 is desperate to rescue teen girl from Russia's attacks 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Santos was elected senior class president after promising to get cushions for the concrete benches in the library. From a Hawaiian Island to a New York Island, and Back 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

It's suggested that things will improve if a new Mexican president is elected July 1, but under present circumstances, any kind of optimism is highly unconvincing. 'Murder Capital of the World': Sobering take on Mexico's drug war 2012-04-26T20:10:10Z

On Nov. 7, in keeping with an Old Dominion tradition of flipping off the party in the White House, Virginia elected Corey Stewart as governor. Perspective | What if Hillary had won? A jolly trip down memory lane, alternate-timeline edition. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

When the 24-year-old Svante Myrick was elected five years ago, he gave up his car, decorated the spot with benches and plants and welcomed all and sundry to use it as they pleased. The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

A spokesman for Hillary Clinton said she intends to keep the garden if she is elected president. Whether White House garden keeps growing, Michelle Obama has planted seed of healthy eating 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

They are Trump voters who said when the president was elected that he would never discriminate against transgender people. ‘The moment when it really started to feel insane’: An oral history of the Scaramucci era 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

There are no black state governors in 2016, and only four have ever been elected. Is America more racist, or more sexist? Admittedly, it’s a tough call 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

And Waddell was selected as mayor as the white supremacists forced the duly elected officials to resign. When White Supremacists Overthrew an Elected Government 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

It’s the only silver lining to Trump being elected; it made the whole book make even more ghastly sense. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: David Friend on ‘The Naughty Nineties’ 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

“People follow politics in this state like they follow the Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins and Celtics,” said Geoff Diehl, a state representative and the first elected official in Massachusetts to endorse Trump. How is Trump winning over Massachusetts Republicans? He speaks their language. 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

“And when Woody Guthrie was a boy, Oklahoma was also the reddest state because we had more socialists elected to public office than any other.” Woody Guthrie Gets a Belated Honor in Oklahoma 2011-12-27T23:39:33Z

And then Brexit happened in England, and Trump was elected in the States. Gillian Anderson speaks out about equal pay and her book, ‘We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere ’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Kid Rock got Romney's commitment that if elected he would help the city of Detroit, the state of Michigan and U.S. troops, a Romney campaign spokesman said. In Michigan, Mitt Romney faces day of reckoning 2012-02-28T10:36:07Z

Shortly after Obama was elected, he expanded the so-called “Secure Communities” program created under George W. Bush. Obama’s lethal deportation machine: Trump’s anti-immigration measures are intense, but nothing new 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Pierce was so disrespected he was the only elected president denied renomination by his own party. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Johnson and Pierce are no longer the worst presidents. Thanks, Trump. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Hong Kong authorities have over the past year arrested dozens of pro-democracy activists and pushed through electoral reforms that would reduce the number of directly elected legislators in the city. Top Hong Kong singer loses concert venue amid crackdown 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

There was so much more hope, I suggest to Chomsky, when Obama was first elected, and he spoke about the Middle East. Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone' 2013-03-22T19:08:27Z

A year and a half later, Ronald Reagan, a Cold Warrior who was elected partly on a backlash to post-Vietnam sentiment, won a second term in a landslide. ‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious) 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

It is the second Christmas season for the pope, who was elected last year as the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years. Pope, on Christmas Eve, urges world to be open to God 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Q: What will become of your unfinished book projects if you’re elected governor? How Stacey Abrams turned heartbreak into a career plan — and romance novels 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Asian-American elected officials in New York wrote a letter to Mr. Harvey, saying that his comments were “offensive” and “classless.” Steve Harvey Apologizes for Mocking Asian Men 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

He was the first independent elected to the South Carolina House since Reconstruction. SC filmmaker: Channels showed porn, not his comedy 2010-03-24T00:06:00Z

It was the year of the so-called Caracazo, when economic-austerity measures imposed by a newly elected President led to several days of rioting and bloodshed in the capital and surrounding towns. An Unflinching View of Venezuela in Crisis 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Colbert answered: “No, you inherited a fortune. We elected a mess.” Colbert Rides a Trump Wave, While Fallon Treads Water 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Among those elected to the National Academy of Sciences, only 7 per cent believed in a personal god. Richard Dawkins’ moralizing atheism: Science, self-righteousness and militant belief — and disbelief 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

Thursday's schedule, in addition to leading conservatives and elected officials, included a slew of former candidates, among them Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. Conservatives gather to hear GOP candidates 2012-02-10T02:17:00Z

You will also have the mad urge to press it into the hands of every elected official you meet. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Last week, the government placed the democratically elected leaders of Kashmir under house arrest, blocked all communications and repealed the state’s semiautonomous status enshrined in the Constitution since 1949. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Graham was more effective by gaining the attention of elected presidents, including Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. With God on Their Side: How Evangelicals Entered American Politics 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

“Funny Girl” begins with the spectacle of Barbara Parker, an aspiring comic actress who realizes that being elected Miss Blackpool is a terrible career move. Nick Hornby’s ‘Funny Girl,’ About a 1960s BBC Sitcom Star 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Later, in San Francisco, he was elected a city supervisor representing the Castro district and other neighborhoods. She was a crack addict. He was a rising political star. Then their worlds collided 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

"We elected to get a CAT scan and a CTA — or CT angiogram, a type of CAT scan of the carotid arteries," Alexander said. Kirk faces long recovery from stroke 2012-01-24T03:03:00Z

Once Trump was elected, I said, “We do the black church later and Great Migration. We have to do Reconstruction, because of its allegorical implications for race relations and politics today.” Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Walsh, a Democrat, is a former construction worker who led the city's Building and Construction Trades Council union before being elected mayor in 2013. Teamsters members accused of 'Top Chef' extortion plot face trial 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

He also said Putin's decision to scrap Russia's system of elected governors – they are now all appointed – was a mistake. WikiLeaks cables: Solzhenitsyn praise for Vladimir Putin 2010-12-02T07:30:00Z

A. He resigned immediately after being elected, explaining that he hadn’t realized the job would involve going to meetings. Style Invitational Week 1168: Asterisky business — give us nerdy humor 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

She became the first Black woman to be elected district attorney in California history, the first woman to be California's attorney general, first South Asian American senator. Kamala Harris names herself and seeks redemption, empowering so many of us to do the same 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

In those societies that relied on ploughs to prepare the ground, women are today less likely work outside the home, be elected to parliament or run businesses, the groups states. The root of inequality? It's down to whether you ploughed or hoed... 2011-07-30T23:06:21Z

Once we have elected the first female President whose husband is a former male President, we can elect the first female President whose husband has never held elective office. Hillary for President: No Joke 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Warren Harding, elected president in 1920, wanted the budget balanced, and vetoed a veterans’ bonus because it would add to the national debt and “undermine…confidence” in America’s credit. The searing Twenties 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Frank Watkins, an aide to the younger Mr. Jackson since he was first elected to Congress almost two decades ago and a colleague of his father long before that, said, “I see confusion.” Struggles for Jesse Jackson, Father and Son 2012-11-23T21:27:53Z

“The point of the painting is that here are all the people who got him elected,” McNaughton says. The most famous pro-Trump artist in the U.S. has moved into his ‘Mueller’ phase. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

He became a varsity wrestler there and, despite being rejected by fraternities because he was Jewish, was elected president of the student body in his junior year — a first for the St. Lawrence campus. Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

To put this time lag in perspective, whichever presidential candidate is elected in November will be in the final stage of a re-election campaign when Mr. Nézet-Séguin takes the podium as the Met’s music director. Is Yannick Nézet-Séguin Worth the Wait at the Met? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

He was a type of magical symbol for people who wanted Trump to get elected. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Cathey told the Guardian in 2016 that his career took off after Barack Obama was elected president because people could begin to accept the idea of a well-spoken black man. House of Cards actor Reg E Cathey dies aged 59 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

Jim DeFelice’s “West Like Lightning,” a history of the Pony Express, begins with an anxious young rider waiting to take the news to California that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Making Good Time With the Pony Express 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

Thanks to an anti-Le Pen front, Mr Ben Abbes is elected and thus begins Muslim rule. Irrepressible 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Ashley Luciano, an information technology specialist for a law firm who now lives in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, was 22 when Trump was elected. They rushed to get IUDs before Trump took office. Five years later, would they do it again? 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Italy’s Mario Monti was neither elected nor supported by traditional political parties when he became prime minister and Greece’s Tspiras government was forced by its European neighbors to enact policies rejected by its own citizens. A Grand Tour of the Crisis in Europe 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Cory Booker: “If I am elected as the nominee, I’m going to make sure there is gender diversity on the ticket.” Perspective | The hazards of asking male candidates whether they’d choose a female running mate 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

I remember how, before he was elected leader of the Conservative party, David Cameron promised to set aside the confrontational politics of the House of Commons. The war against clich? has failed 2011-01-07T12:51:33Z

Yet they can also see a feline parody of “America’s Got Talent,” fancifully animated dog and cat crime capers and a documentary about golden retrievers that served as the legitimately elected mayors of Idyllwild, Calif. Animal Lovers, Rejoice: The NY Cat and Dog Film Festivals Return 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Paris Barclay, whose extensive television directing credits include episodes of the “Sons of Anarchy” and “Glee” series, was elected president of the Directors Guild of America at the union’s biennial convention here on Saturday. ArtsBeat: Paris Barclay to Lead Directors Guild of America 2013-06-23T05:07:00Z

Romney has pledged that if elected president, he would “drop these lawsuits on day one.” High Court to take on Ariz. immigration law 2012-04-25T10:05:00Z

The bitter tone of the film — which Clooney said he tweaked to make angrier and darker after Donald Trump was elected president — mirrors his own present mood. Perspective | At the Toronto International Film Festival, you can feel anxiety in the air — and on the screen 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

I want an elected official who cares about taking action to curb the hunger crisis,’” said Evans. Global Citizen to host pandemic party with a purpose 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Senate either, although he speculated it would be hard for him to get elected now. Schwarzenegger child report spurs media frenzy 2011-05-18T22:15:23Z

On Tuesday, Durham’s elected police and crime commissioner, Ron Hogg, indicated that officers from his force would not seek to prosecute people using cannabis or growing it for their own use. Cannabis petition forces MPs to consider debating legalisation 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

While Luckey’s stated goal was to get Trump elected, the candidate’s appeal was less about ideas than his ethos of negativity. The Dank Memes That Are “Disrupting” Politics 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Otherwise its highest accomplishment has been to reveal how profoundly craven and gullible our elected officials are, especially when it comes to gun control legislation and immigration issues. Omarosa won’t save us from Trump: Stop hitching your hope to the stars 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

It was funny, I was actually doing an interview with Salon when Trump got elected. Paul Janeway on the new St. Paul & the Broken Bones LP and “open wounds we didn’t know were t... 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

But how do newly elected presidents decide on their look? Presidents come and go, but these curtains are forever 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

But they seemed to balk at the notion, canvassed in a debate after the film, that to get elected progressive politicians must learn at least some of the great communicator's tunes. Sundance 2011: fewer stars, more ideas 2011-01-30T00:06:59Z

A woman politician whose appearance and delivery matched those of Donald Trump would be unlikely to be elected to city council. Trump’s misogyny didn’t win him the election. But it will change women’s lives 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Interspersed with his apparent delusions are observations of the sharpest lucidity: about his isolated sister, how the world really works and the dangers that she has elected not to see. Review: Tim and Tyne Daly Are Dysfunctional Siblings in ‘Downstairs’ 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Plus, we see plenty of the leaders' wives – but where are all the elected women in this campaign? Guardian Election Daily: the three-horse race 2010-04-23T14:00:00Z

And Blake Bailey is not an elected official, a beloved cultural icon or even a household name. Perspective | Philip Roth and the sympathetic biographer: This is how misogyny gets cemented in our culture 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

He'd been elected by his fellow Democratic freshmen to be their representative in discussions with the party's leadership. On their third day at work, congressional freshmen went through disorientation 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

To maintain open spaces and public facilities, Rouse established the Columbia Association, a nonprofit whose board is elected by residents. Here’s a suburban experiment cities can learn from 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

When Reagan was elected, he was in a way our Thatcher, and when he was elected I cried. Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

By the turn of the century, the artist was garnering more attention: In 2005, Bowling became the first Black British artist elected to London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Arts. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

“She is a grown woman with an Ivy education who has elected to be silent and thereby complicit, like her sister.” If Tiffany Trump wants to be just another Georgetown Law student, her plan isn’t working 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Magistrates are appointed by the elected Juvenile Court judge. Judge Joe Brown challenging contempt charges 2014-03-26T13:23:29Z

PiS was elected four years ago promising a raft of socially conservative policies. Pride parades in Poland prove flashpoint ahead of general election 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Philadelphia’s district attorney, Larry Krasner, is part of a wave of progressive prosecutors who have been elected across the country in recent years. What’s on TV This Week: The Oscars and a Greta Thunberg Documentary 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

Business owners, elected officials, casino executives and local artists are counting on the Smith Center to bring new life to the city's struggling economy and arts scene. Arts community demanding spotlight in Las Vegas 2012-02-26T17:02:08Z

It is possible that although black elected officials may claim to represent the black public, their constituents, and not share their preferences on every issue. “Republicans are not in any way serious about criminal justice reform or ending police brutality”: Michael Fortner on race, the Clintons and the crime bill 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Clegg says MPs are elected to serve their constituents. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z

Lewis promised in the Times to "lead a rebellion against sour academics" if he were to be elected. Race hots up 2010-05-18T12:23:00Z

Generation Citizen was literally founded in the summer and fall right before Obama got elected. "Voting is important but insufficient": Scott Warren on youth power in politics 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

He also begins assembling a Cabinet that — reflecting the diversity of the nation he has been elected to lead — includes several non-billionaires. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Trump and the ‘hideous monstrosity’ that was 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

In 2009, she was the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council, beating most of a large field that at one point swelled to 15 candidates vying for four at-large seats. For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

He was also elected deputy national president of the People's Redemption party and published a political pamphlet, The Trouble With Nigeria, in 1983. Chinua Achebe obituary 2013-03-22T13:56:09Z

Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live last night to play Donald Trump for the first time since he was elected president. Watch Alec Baldwin Return to 'SNL' to Play a Panicked Donald Trump 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Nancy Mace, 43, is the newly elected Republican U.S. representative from South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. Republican Rep. Nancy Mace on the Capitol insurrection: ‘We need to rebuild our party’ 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

It’s unclear if the public pressure is making any impression on Abbott, who was a law and order state attorney general before he was elected governor. All eyes on Texas governor as calls grow to halt execution 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

It was no surprise whatsoever to me, though, at that point, that he had elected to hold the Carrington family hostage. ‘Dynasty’ or ‘Dallas’? Squaring Off in the Lily Pond 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The mayor, largely elected with mainland votes, is challenging its legality. Venice world heritage status under threat 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

We have elected our designated “cool black guy” as president twice, and Hillary Clinton is very close to becoming our first female president. Is America more racist, or more sexist? Admittedly, it’s a tough call 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Before he was elected police and crime commissioner in 2012, Wright was also a member of the South Yorkshire police authority. Rotherham child abuse scandal: police commissioner refuses to resign 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

Bill Clinton honored South Africa in 1994, just months after Nelson Mandela was elected the country’s first Black president and made his first state visit to the United States. What’s a state dinner, again? Macron is back for the first one post-covid. 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

“The day after Trump was elected, my wife and I were sitting in the living room watching TV in disbelief,” Roeder said. Unite, Unite Europe! A Protest in Favor of the European Union 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

But the Habsburg who defined Europe in the Renaissance was Charles V, who in the 16th century became ruler of Spain and its American possessions and was elected Holy Roman Emperor. The Habsburgs shaped the story of Europe ? and of its art 2011-07-25T14:10:19Z

Its stirring melody played as Mr. Macron entered for his victory rally when he was elected in May, a signal of his continued commitment to European integration in the age of “Brexit” and nationalist surges. At G-20, Beethoven Sends a Mixed Message to Trump 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

The limit is the elected official who ultimately is responsible for city government.” Attorney: City watchdog reports to mayor 2011-11-01T11:55:00Z

After the fall of the Soviet Union, he led the Mejlis and was elected to the Ukrainian parliament five times. Russia Declares War on Eurovision 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Because believe me – actual wealthy people who are reliant on facts about what’s going on in the world aren’t watching this network or its news…unless they hold elected office. How One America News sells an altered reality 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

A candidate in a starched dress shirt with his sleeves rolled up doesn’t look like he’s ready to get to work any more than those elected officials already in Washington. The casual-Friday look that GOP candidates can’t get enough of 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006. Sonny James, Country Singer Known for ‘Young Love,’ Dies at 87 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

If elected, Campbell promises a model of government transparency. Ex-2 Live Crew rapper runs for Miami-Dade mayor 2011-05-16T12:28:09Z

The current president walked off the set of The Apprentice via the campaign trail into the White House, with no experience of elected or public office along the way. You're hired! How TV carried Reagan and Trump to the White House 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Ditto for the idea that Trump was elected by appealing to racist and sexist voters. Schools, lies and Donald Trump: Teachers must resist emulating our fact-challenged president 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

In 1994, he was elected to the board of the Whitney, where he said he never felt like a token, despite being the board’s only African-American. The Disrupters: Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

A diplomat before being elected president in 1824 and a House member after losing reelection to that hotheaded populist Andrew Jackson, Adams is portrayed as neglecting his children, with some dire consequences. Review | John Quincy Adams is the anti-Trump in the new play ‘JQA’ 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

These visualizations, along with the underlying data, were sent to allied organizations like the citizen-led Commission on Interracial Cooperation, to newspapers nationwide and to elected officials of all parties and regions. How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

“We aren’t elected, we have to define this role for ourselves. And we are thrust into a national spotlight in a way that I know none of us could have anticipated,” she said. Jill Biden speaks candidly about challenges of her role 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

"So for Father’s Day, call your elected representatives and demand they do something," Colbert added. Stephen Colbert rips into Jeff Sessions for separating immigrant families 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

In 1997 Tony Blair was elected, his government considerably less hostile to Murdoch than Major's, and Murdoch lent it strong, if conditional, support. Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight – review 2013-02-20T07:01:01Z

Even some of the most conservative Senate candidates are trimming their sails to get elected, especially in purple states. Move over, Mitch! Paul Ryan lets slip secrets of how GOP will run the Senate 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Well, there were actually two single presidents, James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland, though he got married shortly after being elected. In defense of single people 2012-07-09T01:00:00Z

The chapel is one of the Roman Catholic Church’s holiest places, where popes are elected. A Woman Now Leads the Vatican Museums. And She’s Shaking Things Up. 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

Instead, a succession of elected Kashmiri governments were dismissed by New Delhi, and direct rule imposed. Curfewed Night 2010-06-19T23:10:00Z

On 26 and 27 February a group of Parkland students met elected officials in Washington DC to discuss gun reform. ‘We took our anger and channelled it’: Parkland students Jaclyn Corin and Delaney Tarr on becoming activists 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

Once again, Mr. Owens elected to fish mostly outside the usual model pool. On the Runway Blog: At Rick Owens, Not Your Usual Models 2014-03-01T22:31:29Z

It extracts every last last bit of comic mileage from the idea of our elected representatives being on the take. MPs duck out of The Duck House 2013-12-11T10:59:23Z

Ayres, 80, a retired architect, and Turnbull, 35, a brand strategist, are members of Republic, an organization that wants to abolish Britain’s monarchy in favor of an elected head of state. Watching ‘The Crown’ With Britain’s Anti-Monarchists: ‘I Feel Queasy’ 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

A Southern demagogue gets himself elected governor to battle the elites, but gradually surrenders his principles. Steve Inskeep Is Drawn to Books With Nuanced Female Characters 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

That, incidentally, was in the middle of the “Year of the Woman,” in which an unprecedented five women were elected to the U.S. We spent decades dreaming up the perfect female president. She doesn’t exist. 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The following year she was elected a member of the European parliament, but resigned in 1999. Wyclef Jean changes his tune over run for Haiti's toughest job 2010-07-27T19:23:00Z

That polarization has diminished the quality of the elected leadership while breeding a sense of alienation and suspicion among the populace. 'It's easy to make someone a monster' - behind a Roger Ailes documentary 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

“Democracy requires engagement and is its own sort of practice. It is more than just expecting elected officials to bring about all the change we wish to see,” said Shah, who lives in D.C. To honor Kamala Harris, these women are bringing a traditional Indian art form to D.C., made by thousands of hands 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

Plastic Jesus and Ginger were also responsible for producing naked statues of Donald Trump that appeared in various U.S. cities in 2016, before he was elected U.S. president. Harvey Weinstein 'Casting Couch' statue unveiled ahead of Oscars 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

They included Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman elected to the Senate. Still Thinking About Anita Hill 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

At the time of our conversation, West Bengal, the state of which Calcutta is the capital, had had 28 years of Left Front rule: already a world record for a democratically elected communist government. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z

Though it was filmed months before Donald Trump was elected, one of The Handmaid's Tale's early scenes eerily mirrored January's Women's March. Everything You Need to Know About the 2017 Emmy Awards 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Isn't it astonishing, for example, how, once elected, MPs continue the daft traditions of jeering, guffawing and addressing their colleagues by ridiculous circumlocutory terms such as "the right honourable member"? In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z

Two years later, the political novice was elected a United States senator from Massachusetts. Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Earlier this week, The Atlantic reported that a newly-released recording from Richard Nixon's presidency featured Ronald Reagan, then the next Republican to be elected commander-in-chief, referrring to people from Africa as "monkeys." That racist Reagan recording just confirmed what my community already knew 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Franken was a well-known American comedian before he was elected to the U.S. Woman accuses U.S. Senator Al Franken of unwanted groping, kiss 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

This year, she was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Perspective | Marilyn Chin to be the next guest for the Life of a Poet 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Harvard Law School, Columbia, elected into public office from a progressive multiracial city. “Maybe it is not that you couldn’t. It is that you wouldn’t”: Michael Eric Dyson reflects on Obama’s complicated legacy on race 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

He was elected to the Earshot Jazz Hall of Fame in 1991. Community remembers Seattle jazz lion Chuck Metcalf 2012-03-12T20:09:05Z

Myanmar is emerging from decades of isolation under a reformist elected government that took office last year after almost five decades of military rule. Jason Mraz tops Myanmar anti-trafficking concert 2012-12-16T17:55:08Z

“Some thought he is making a play to come into elected office,” Mr. Rubenstein said. Eliot Spitzer?s Long Road to Redemption 2010-04-07T22:51:00Z

Who will be nominated, elected or vaccinated by then? Yes, There Will Be an Oscar Season. But What Will It Look Like? 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Can Herman Cain ever get elected in the primary process? Campaign Video: Smoke ?Em If You Got ?Em for Herman Cain 2011-10-25T13:18:46Z

“The administration’s number one priority was to deny that Trump was elected with the help of Russia.” Perspective | Reality Winner was the FBI’s ‘head on a pike’ for Trump. It’s time to set her free. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

Five more at-large delegates, and 18 of the congressional district delegates, will be elected at the state party convention in June. Rick Santorum wins Louisiana primary 2012-03-25T01:04:00Z

The wrecked economy, non-responsive elected elites, a political economy gamed to the near exclusive advantage of the 1 percent, and the right-wing news disinformation entertainment complex has encouraged radicalism among American conservatives. The GOP’s gross Adam Sandler primary: Donald Trump, penis jokes and the pathetic state of conservatism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

I elected to do this without anaesthetic, I forget why. How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Righttocomplain’s purpose has just ended, though, hence the funeral: It is Nov. 4, 2008, and Barack Obama has been elected president, ushering in a promising new era for Black Americans. ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ Review: After Great Tribulation, an Exodus of Black Citizens 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Emhoff has been vague about his plans if his wife is elected. Doug Emhoff paused his career for his wife Kamala Harris’s aspirations — and became the campaign’s ‘secret weapon’ 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s probably impossible to get elected to any Louisiana office without courting petroleum dollars and making campaign promises to that industry. Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients 2012-05-23T11:45:00Z

Subsequent generations of elected officials, including the former governors Gary Locke and Bobby Jindal, similarly explained themselves as immigrant success stories. Andrew Yang and the Political Narratives of Asian-Americans 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

That’s politics, and it’s childish to demand to know elected officials’ inner lives and to really demand that they’re sincere in what they say. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z

What we are legally obliged to render unto HM Revenue and Customs belongs to our elected government. The war against clich? has failed 2011-01-07T12:51:33Z

“It’s one reason why we elected a reality-TV star as our president.” ‘Why do you look so familiar?’: In Detroit, presidential wannabes try to make themselves worth recognizing 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, and last year, he was given the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities. Smithsonian’s new secretary, Lonnie Bunch III, faces political and financial challenges 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

Members of Franklin’s family as well as postal and elected officials visited the former Fox Creek post office to celebrate the name change honoring the Queen of Soul. Detroit posthumously honors Franklin with post office naming 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

He recently reiterated those views to Fox News’ Chris Wallace, promising that, if elected, he would appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn the 2015 ruling on marriage equality. With friends like these: More reasons why LGBT people should fear a Donald Trump presidency 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

Even TV personality Montel Williams couldn’t resist using the trending topic for a history lesson: “Because the last time we elected 1st term Senator the result was just swell.” “Like Sarah Palin’s annoying younger brother”: Ted Cruz’s 2016 announcement gets brutally mocked on Twitter 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Public appetite for change on this is “evolving,” he said, pointing both to the surge in Black Lives Matter activism this summer and the platform that got Rachael Rollins elected as Suffolk county district attorney. Trial 4: how a 19-year-old spent 23 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has elected four new members to its board of trustees, the latest sign of growing confidence in the museum under new director Philippe Vergne. Museum of Contemporary Art elects 4 new members to board of trustees 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

A man who brags about assaulting women was elected president. The evidence is mounting – a man’s place is in the home 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

“I think it reflects that Vermont elected officials are more in touch with our constituents than a lot of elected officials in other states,” he told the Free Press. Vermont becomes first state to pass legislation legalizing all pot use 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

That’s why I think the populous is far ahead of their elected officials. Al Roker on climate change: ‘I think people want action, and they are taking it into their own hands’ 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

“If I get elected . . . ” he pauses to shape his thoughts. Neel Kashkari, the $700 billion man, makes a bid for governor in California

In 1998, a year before his death at 53, he was elected grand marshal of the city’s Chinese New Year Parade. Martin Wong, an Urban Visionary With a Hungry Eye 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

She practiced law and, after Bill was elected governor, eventually took his surname as a concession to the culture of the time and place. In ‘Hillary,’ a Political Warrior Weighed Down by Her Armor 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Even though Mr. Trump has picked fights with everyone from Meryl Streep to the cast of “Hamilton” since being elected, he has gone after no artist as hard as Ms. Griffin. Kathy Griffin’s Wild Show: Defiant, Shaken, Then Fainting 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Before he was elected to the highest office in the land, he denied the abundance of great eateries here. Perspective | Trump’s first D.C. dinner as president: An overcooked, $54 steak. With ketchup. 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

It’s this: There should be some distance between journalists and elected officials. Joe Scarborough defends schmoozing with Trump as ‘the Washington way’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

The better strategy, he adds, is far less emotionally satisfying: write or call your elected officials. Review: In Memoir, Barney Frank Presses for a Results-Oriented Philosophy 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

“No, you inherited a fortune – we elected a mess,” Colbert said. Late-night hosts on Trump's disastrous press conference: 'We elected a mess' 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

We don't know for sure that the Russians elected Trump. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

The organization is also calling on elected officials to help booksellers recover from the unexpected downturn. Independent bookstores survived the rise of online retail. Coronavirus poses bigger challenges. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Britain left the European Union, Donald Trump was elected president, and the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years. 10 questions, 1 prize: Presenting the annual KidsPost News Quiz 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Vassiliadis and his high-powered business friends are worried, he says, that Sanders not only can’t be elected, but will bust the U.S. economy with expensive government programs. In Las Vegas, nervous Democrats have no poker face 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

A nation beset by catastrophes — a pandemic, racial tension, ongoing police violence against people of color, massive unemployment, a collapsing economy, two hurricanes, raging wildfires — was threatened by: a catastrophe, if it elected Joe Biden. Perspective | The Republican convention messed with something more fundamental than logic. It screwed up our sense of time. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Those architectural dreams, as self-serving as many of them were, were quickly battered or swept aside by the plans and timetables of various elected and appointed officials. The newly opened $4-billion World Trade Center transit hub is overwrought and underwhelming 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dickens was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1983. Jimmy Dickens, an Outsize Country Singer, Dies at 94 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

When Matthew Godfrey was elected Ogden’s mayor 12 years ago at the age of 29, he immediately set to work cleaning up the putrid Ogden River for recreational use. Let’s swim to work! 2012-09-15T13:30:00Z

Self-aggrandizing, prone to making baseless accusations, and cynically motivated by the endless pursuit of power, McCarthy was elected to the U.S. 9 senseless social panics that did lasting damage to America 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

When meeting with elected officials, O’Rourke will lay off talk about the evils of PAC money, knowing his audience might not be so pure on the practice. Beto O’Rourke gets more attention than any other 2018 candidate. Will it translate to votes? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

In 2016, he was elected to the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. They Grew Closer Despite a Geographical Distance 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Three years later he was unanimously elected chair of the Democratic Caucus. Jim Clyburn changed everything for Joe Biden’s campaign. He’s been a political force for a long time. 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

The police department’s probe would be separate from any independent investigation ordered by County Judge Lina Hidalgo, Harris County’s top elected official, according to Rafael Lemaitre, a spokesman for the county judge’s office. Astroworld deaths spur calls for independent review 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Small wonder the Cannes organisers elected to shunt The Congress from the main competition to the more esoteric environs of the neighbouring Directors' Fortnight selection. Cannes 2013: The Congress – review 2013-05-16T13:42:34Z

He is one of two recently elected Getty trustees, along with James F. Rothenberg, a financial executive who will join the board in January. Michael Lynton of Sony Entertainment elected to Getty Trust board 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

“A Starting Point” is meant to offer a digital home for people to hear from elected officials without having the conversation framed by Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow. Captain America is trying to … captain America 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

In interviews in the summer of 2016, Ginsburg called him a “faker” and worried about the fate of the court and the country if he were elected. The new film ‘RBG’ reveals how Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a meme — and why that’s so surprising 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

It committed to showcasing more Black artists and, in May of that year, it elected its first Black board chairwoman, Darrianne Christian. 2 Years After Racism Outcry, Indianapolis Embraces Black Artists 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

And though Ms. Harris is not the first Washington insider to be on the cover of American Vogue, she is the first elected official. Why a Vogue Cover Created an Uproar Over Kamala Harris 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Even before he was elected, when the tapes came out and we heard him saying what he said, I think it triggered a lot of women in a very traumatic way. Jane Fonda Is Paying Close Attention 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Her father was first elected to the Senate in 1962, taking the seat that his brother had occupied before winning the White House. Funeral Mass under way for Ted Kennedy's daughter 2011-09-21T15:51:07Z

Musicians, football players, coaches, our elected officials, you in the audience, yes, we are all the same. Big names flock to Nashville for flood benefit 2010-06-23T06:31:00Z

But after Trump got elected, I wanted to broaden the subject of the book and also make it more personal. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Though Seward was physically unimpressive, people listened when he spoke, and he managed to get himself elected governor of New York, then senator. 'Seward': a new biography of Lincoln's right-hand man 2012-09-26T22:15:06Z

Even the best watchdog journalism won’t preserve democracy as the Founders intended without engaged citizens and responsible elected officials, all living in the same truth-based reality. As Trump era nears, is the media ready for the challenge? 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

You fought against David Duke during his first run at elected office, have written several books on white privilege and travel the country speaking about these issues. “There was a market for white resentment”: Tim Wise on Trump, David Duke and the bigotry that risen from the shadows 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Her mother, a high school librarian with a master’s degree, became the first African American woman elected to Selma’s City Council in 1993 and served 11 years. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Thailand's army seized power in a May 22 coup saying it needed to restore order after months of street protests that helped overthrow an elected government. Thai scholar faces royal insult charge over medieval king 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

There’s a derisive response from one of them: “Who elected you, Vanya?” Elliot Page, From Shame to Self-Acceptance, in Hollywood’s Glare 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

When I realised that I’d been elected I burst into tears – although I made sure the Tories didn’t see me crying. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

A telling anecdote has her conducting a discussion with a group of university graduates in 2018, in which she elected to talk not about the Rohingya, or the peace process, or democracy, but about novels. ‘The Hidden History of Burma’ Traces the Vanishing of Hope 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Atwood said she was already conceptualizing a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale” when Trump was elected. Atwood says 'Handmaid's Tale' got much closer to reality, prompting... 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Singer Wyclef Jean plans to govern Haiti in English and Creole if he is elected president, setting him apart from his political rivals in this former French colony. Wyclef Jean says would govern in English, Creole 2010-08-11T12:16:00Z

Several presidents were elected without winning the popular vote. A three-pronged plan to make peace with a Trump presidency 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

"One Life to Live," which debuted two years earlier — a few months before Richard Nixon was elected president — will be retired next January. ABC ending soaps 'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live' 2011-04-15T15:15:00Z

In August, protesters poured blood and dumped sheep carcasses in front of the office of one mayor who backed the plan to introduce the two female bears, as tensions flared between farmers and elected officials. France airlifts two bears into Pyrenees, evading roadblocks 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

The change was pushed by three new school board members, elected in May with support from Patriot Mobile, a self-described Christian cellphone carrier. A Fast-Growing Network of Conservative Groups Is Fueling a Surge in Book Bans 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Members continued to meet in some form nearly every day, growing to about 200 active participants who engage with members of Congress and other elected officials. How Small Restaurants Leveraged Their Pain to Win Stimulus Money 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Progressive-leaning festivalgoers, for instance, will undoubtedly rally behind “Knock Down the House,” a documentary from Rachel Lears that follows insurgent political candidates, including Ocasio-Cortez, the newly elected Democratic congresswoman from Queens. ‘Layered, Intense and Authentic’: Sundance Lineup Is Announced 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Likening the election of Trump to Brexit, he then cautions the audience to seriously consider what would happen after: “Good night America you’ve just elected the last president of the United States.” “Michael Moore in TrumpLand”: A film whose surprising healing power is needed now more than ever 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

To prevent all those ruffled feathers, there’s an established formula for seating every elected official, foreign dignitary, diplomat and more called the “order of precedence.” Drama. Ego. Protocol: Washington dinners have it all — and that’s just the seating chart

As in every other movie of this kind, the elected officials who supposedly oversee intelligence in the new “Mission: Impossible” installment are posturing, bloviating morons who exist to be duped. From James Bond to Edward Snowden: How the dangerous fantasies of spy fiction shaped our “Mission: Impossible” world 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994, and in 1995 was awarded the Czech Republic’s highest civilian honor, the State Medal of Merit, First Class. Karel Husa, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Dies at 95 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Seven years of protesting and dealing with elected officials have left her a bit weary and leery of politicians, Republican and Democrat. Black voters played a crucial role in Joe Biden’s victory. Can he keep their trust? 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

In the US he received several doctorates and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar dies 2012-12-12T07:46:00Z

Only one of the women had held public office before: Janelle Guest-Bakker, 36, a State Department employee from Fairfax who had been elected as an unpaid neighborhood precinct delegate in her native Detroit at 21. This group trains women to run for office. Here’s how one outraged, post-Trump class fared. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Mic’s “Identities” section includes such stories as “You can probably guess how white the U.S.’s elected prosecutors are.” Digital news for the young: LGBT, weed and the latest from ‘Game of Thrones’ 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

She diversified to other genres, and in 1999 was elected “singer of the millennium” by BBC London, consolidating her international reputation. Brazil bids farewell to its samba queen, Elza Soares 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

You were the first Republican woman elected to the U.S. Republican Rep. Nancy Mace on the Capitol insurrection: ‘We need to rebuild our party’ 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

“The Poison Squad” chronicles years of bureaucratic battles, the cowardice of elected officials, the triumph of food safety bills in 1906 and the legislative compromises that greatly disappointed Wiley. The Man Who Pioneered Food Safety 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Americans are no strangers to the admixture of Hollywood stars and politics; after all, we’ve elected said stars to roles of senator, governor and president. Film and TV stars shake up the British election (sort of) 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Saying you will criminally prosecute your political opponent when you win is a scary and dangerous threat,” she tweeted in October of 2016 after Trump repeatedly threatened to imprison Hillary Clinton if he was elected. CNN hires a prominent conservative to help direct its political coverage 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Franken was a well-known American comedian before he was elected to the U.S. Woman accuses U.S. Senator Al Franken of unwanted groping, kiss 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

In high school the longhaired Moore ran for the conservative local school board and won, becoming the youngest elected official in the United States. Filmmaker Michael Moore's early life 2011-09-16T20:20:05Z

At its best, in a democracy the Fourth Estate provides a check on power by holding elected officials and others accountable to the people. Philosopher Susan Neiman: "The president of our country is evil" 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

The boastful appeal of Joe Kennedy’s comment after one victory—“For all the money I spent I could have elected my chauffeur”—never loses its punch. ‘American Dynasties: The Kennedys’ Review: A Striving in the Blood 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Oh, and he’s also the newly elected vendor-representative to the board of the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance. Lunching with Loki Fish Co.’s Dylan Knutson 2013-04-04T22:41:23Z

We're not talking about special interest trying to get elected officials to move one way or another. Who’s buying our elections? Inside the shadowy world of “Dark Money” 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

Some other elected leaders called the results mixed mainly because of the cost to the city. Federal Way sand sculptures come down Sunday 2010-10-07T14:52:00Z

Let me put it this way: a country that has legitimately elected Trump has to consider its political system. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Congress in South Carolina — in a year that Republican women elected to Congress doubled their number. Republican Rep. Nancy Mace on the Capitol insurrection: ‘We need to rebuild our party’ 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

The residents elected their own officials and had compulsory education and their own system of laws — rights that had previously been denied to them. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

In the past year, that attitude appears to have shifted: “It’s striking to me that people campaigning to be elected officials are mentioning the word at all,” Mr. Darity said. How Reparations for Slavery Became a 2020 Campaign Issue 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

“Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders,” the authors say. How Endangered Is American Democracy? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Beyond the money, book club members held speaking engagements, wrote to elected officials, placed opinion pieces in the local paper, and generally caused a stir that in turn inspired others to get involved. Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide 2010-08-18T23:05:00Z

“To be fair, your father wasn’t elected by the American people either, just the electoral college,” he said. Late-night hosts on Fox News: 'The closest we have to state TV' 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Chapter NY, the other New York City gallery participating in Frame, elected to showcase the work of Los Angeles-based Milano Chow. Frieze New York Presents Global, Cutting-Edge Art 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Small wonder that in 1944, in her first term in Congress, the 41-year-old Luce was elected “Woman of the Year” by a poll of American newspaper editors, pushing Eleanor Roosevelt into a distant second place. A woman of substance 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Trump, on Saturday, as deaths passed 34,000: “Look, if I wasn’t elected, you would, right now, be at war with North Korea.” It’s 5 o’clock. Do you know where your president is? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

He will become the Guggenheim’s chairman as of Nov. 1, succeeding William L. Mack, who served for 16 years and has been elected chairman emeritus. Guggenheim Gets New Chairman, and Second Ever Black Female Trustee 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

In 1994, Keillor addressed the National Press Club and defended Bill Clinton against a battery of accusations, calling him a “soulful man” who “got himself elected without scaring people.” Garrison Keillor, founder of ‘A Prairie Home Companion,’ fired after allegations of improper behavior 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

It is going to be a very expensive proposition and there will have to be a serious commitment by America's elected officials and other leaders, and the public, to make it happen. Author of Neil Armstrong biography "First Man": He understood "the place of humankind in the cosmos" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

He was elected to the Ukulele Hall of Fame. Bill Tapia, Ukulele Virtuoso, Dies at 103 2011-12-12T05:57:16Z

Lee’s interviews — with hundreds of people, from high elected officials to heavy-equipment operators at ground zero — are warm, emotional, sometimes sparring. Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

During the ceremony, elected officials and arts and media personalities will present the prizes, and students will entertain with numbers from Broadway shows. 5th Avenue ceremony honors high-school theater excellence 2010-05-27T20:19:00Z

Would a man really stop working as a lawyer and begin the life of a hostess and advocate if his wife were elected president? Michelle Obama and Laura Bush promote the power of first ladies

At 43, he was the youngest man ever elected president of the United States. John F. Kennedy, an always youthful president, would be 100 this month 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

He is teaching our youth you don't need character to be elected. Kimmel, Covfefe, ‘Wonder Woman’: Washington’s Views on Pop Culture in 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

The decision on Wednesday bars Cosby from being tried again over Constand’s complaint, finding it to be the “only remedy that comports with society’s reasonable expectations of its elected prosecutors and our criminal justice system.” EXPLAINER: Why Bill Cosby’s conviction was overturned 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

They made some rules by consensus, elected leaders and listened to speeches. ‘Blood in the Water,’ a Gripping Account of the Attica Prison Uprising 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Royal Navy sailors protested over proposed pay cuts and Germans elected communists and Nazis. Root causes 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

But, one of the points of this book is that no matter who gets elected president in 2020, that same person is not going to be in charge 10 years from now. Our political future is in millennial hands — even if it feels like boomers will never retire 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

We elected the first African American woman as mayor of our city. Khizr Khan has more to say about Trump, the Constitution and our democracy 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

Trump was elected in part because of his appeal to racism — yes, and sexism — in America. Perspective | The fight over Jemele Hill’s tweets won’t go away. It’s about truth and race in the Trump era. 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Hoodies don't vote, they've realised it's pointless, that whoever gets elected will just be a different shade of the "we don't give a toss about you" party. UK riots: Big Brother isn't watching you 2011-08-11T17:18:00Z

“Whether she is doing this unconsciously or consciously, it’s a definite political tool,” said Siobhan Bennett, the president of the Women’s Campaign Fund, a bipartisan group that seeks to have women elected. Ann Romney Is Writing Her Own Dress Code 2012-06-13T21:02:43Z

In the first volume, the authors imagine that on May 7, 2017, Marine Le Pen is elected president of the French Republic. What if Marine Le Pen won? These graphic novels decode a possible far-right future 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Whether democratically elected politicians who need your vote or pop stars who need you to open your wallet, most everyone at her rarefied level lives, to some degree, by consent of the governed. Netflix’s 'The Crown' Makes the Most of an Unknowable Queen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

London excepted, British councils generally aren't run from "city hall" nor is there an elected office of "councilman" on this side of the Atlantic. TV review: Blackout; Jamie's Summer Food Rave Up 2012-07-02T21:00:01Z

Despite hoping for a safe home-counties seat with haystacks and hillocks, his character has just been elected MP for the Worcestershire town of Redditch. The surprise success of NT Live 2013-06-09T19:30:01Z

But following parliament acts passed by MPs in 1911 and 1949, this power was curtailed when the elected House of Commons enshrined in law its own dominance over the aristocrats' House of Lords. The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

The first hijab-wearing woman, she noted, and “the first refugee ever elected to Congress.” Perspective | A lot of women just won their elections, and hopefully someday this will stop being remarkable 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Obasanjo was duly released, and within a year was democratically elected Nigeria's leader for the second time. Tunde Baiyewu 2013-02-02T08:00:55Z

When Donald J. Trump was elected president, a lot of people talked about fleeing to Canada or elsewhere. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

In places like Dallas and Austin, voters have elected district attorneys in the “progressive prosecutor” mold. 03 Greedo has spent the last two years in a Texas prison but is still the beating heart of L.A.’s rap scene 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Lots of elected officials have, of course, received professional help. Every candidate an author: The ceaseless boom in books by politicians 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Four years after the first gay rodeo, America elected Ronald Reagan, a stalwart conservative who played cowboys on the silver screen, as its 40th president. How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

Taking place June 27 and 28, the city’s festivities will include a 13-hour suite of live and prerecorded musical performances, greetings from elected officials and reflections on 50 years of Pride. Your 2020 Virtual Pride Guide 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

“Even if Hillary Clinton had been elected, there would have been plenty to investigate, and we should have been in a position to investigate,” he said. Marty Baron, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the eight years that reshaped The Washington Post — and journalism 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

“Your people elected him and nominated him. That’s not a fluke. He beat like 16 people.” WATCH: “Morning Joe” hosts explode after Bill Kristol accuses them of “rewriting history” on their boosting of Donald Trump 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The teacher gets elected to office, only to encounter a series of challenges to leading the country as an honest, sincere man who simply wants to serve the people. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

He had been elected the previous year; the two married in 2000. How Paul Ryan is related to Ketanji Brown Jackson 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Pence is not going to be able to do that. There are going to be 20 credible, elected Republicans running against him.” So, while we’re waiting . . . will Mike Pence ever be president? 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Voters elected Santos anyway, flipping a crucial seat for the Republican Party, which barely eked out a majority in the U.S. George Santos had an awkward first day at the office 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

But Mrs. Adams, known be a talented hostess who played an important role in getting her husband elected in 1824, grew depressed once they reached the White House. Reluctant First Lady? Melania Trump Wouldn’t Be the First to Claim That Title 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

What matters are the 54 presidential nominating delegates that will be directly elected by Republican voters from each of the state’s new 18 congressional districts. Illinois primary's fate rests on Super Tuesday 2012-02-29T22:59:00Z

In its relentless drive to replace oil and gas reserves, ExxonMobil has elected to do business with dictators and, at times, partner with soldiers and sailors accused of human-rights atrocities and acts of piracy. 'Private Empire': the secretive world of ExxonMobil 2012-05-03T20:13:04Z

At home, he wrote, the United States had been handicapped by elected officials who feared they would be defeated if they broadened the military draft or asked the public to make more sacrifices. William L. O’Neill, a Historian Who Wrote About Radicals, Dies at 80 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

The 56-year-old California senator, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, celebrated an evening of history-making firsts, including being elected as the first Black vice president and first South Asian vice president. Chef reveals menu of Kamala Harris victory dinner at Delaware restaurant: 'It was very last-minute' 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Older people have a bad reputation right now—their votes elected Trump, and their choices assured an environmental future that looks increasingly debased. David Brooks’s Conversion Story 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Created in 1796, during Washington’s second term, the work is recognized for its symbolic portrait of the office of the president as well as the first man elected to serve. National Museum of African Art brings us the sounds of a Nigerian market 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

In February 1990, soon after he was elected president, Mr. Havel was honored on stage at Lincoln Center. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z

We want leaders democratically elected, Not compelled to dance like puppets on a string. Style Invitational Week 1361: 2020 vision: The year in preview 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Instead of insight into the crisis, you get the political frame: How will it play with elected officials and their constituents? Perspective | Biden’s first news conference is a test for him. But it’s a bigger test for White House reporters. 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

But first, a speaker had to be elected. Meet the antsy kids who were also stuck at the Capitol this week 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

He points out that, in all of its history, America has elected only three black senators and two black governors. Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race 2011-08-11T22:00:15Z

“I’m assuming no women” will get a cabinet post, the queen says to the newly elected Thatcher. Gillian Anderson brings uncanny ‘Iron Lady’ to ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Would a woman who behaved exactly like Trump be elected? Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Is it a matter of powerful elected leaders, or average people who put their bodies on the line?” Depiction of Lyndon B. Johnson in 'Selma’ Raises Hackles 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

But when I first heard that I thought there was no way someone who said those words could get elected president of the United States. ‘They never saw this coming’: A Q&A with Kellyanne Conway 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The track was inspired by the group's visit to South Africa shortly after Nelson Mandela was elected president. Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn combine much more than dueling banjos 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

All the elected Republican officials who reached out to him privately to say “thank you for doing that,” he told The Post. Republicans have ‘concerns’ about Trump — but won’t let reporters quote them by name about it 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Shashi Tharoor is an elected member of India's Parliament, the author of "The Great Indian Novel" and "The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone." 'River of Smoke': adrift on a sea of opium 2011-10-12T21:59:11Z

And as expected, 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the breakout progressive star from New York, became the youngest woman ever elected to the House. TV news learned nothing from 2016: Sports-style election coverage remains terrible and short-sighted 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Whether the papacy is left vacant by death or resignation, the camerlengo runs the ordinary affairs of the Vatican city-state until a new pope is elected in a secret conclave. Pope names new prelate who runs Vatican during papal transitions 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z

The court wrote in its decision that overturning Cosby's conviction and barring any further prosecution "is the only remedy that comports with society's reasonable expectations of its elected prosecutors and our criminal justice system." Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction overturned in surprise court ruling 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

They are built on three turning points in recent Iranian history: the U.S.-backed coup that ousted Iran’s first democratically elected government, in 1953; the 1979 revolution; and the 2009 Green Movement uprising. Two Iranian Artists and the Revolution 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Two weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Springer tweeted: “Trump’s 1st cabinet picks: a white supremacist, a man with a history of bigotry & another who calls Islam a fake religion. Is this America?” Farewell to The Jerry Springer Show: 27 years of fights, bleeps and outrage 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

It is better to regard Emin as a cultural phenomenon as much as an artist, both a regular presence in glossy mags and an elected Royal Academician. The best visual arts for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:01Z

In 1994 she became the first openly gay candidate to be elected to the California legislature. The Many Rebellions of ‘Dobie Gillis’ 2013-06-28T19:45:34Z

Or was he always like this but elected to hide it? Steve Coogan: ‘Maybe I've just got flabby and middle-aged' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

"Trade unions should not need approval for a strike from half their members when MPs do not need to reach such a high threshold to get elected." Biggest strike in three years sparks furore over Tory plan for ballot law 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Citing the rise of hate crimes in the U.S. since Trump was elected president, Ansari pointed out that casual racism has become normal in the country, and called for Trump to condemn it. Aziz Ansari Takes on President Trump and Racism in 'SNL' Monologue 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Conditions of Bremer’s release — which he must follow until 2025, when the full 53 years are up — include staying away from elected officials. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Those choices could set the stage for a potentially riveting day of testimony in Greensboro, North Carolina, the state where Edwards won millions as a trial lawyer before being elected to the Senate in 1998. Ex-Senator Edwards, mistress could testify Wednesday 2012-05-16T11:29:00Z

As someone who felt the weight of the Trump era bearing down on him, how do you think he was able to get elected president of the United States? Professor targeted by right for teaching course on “white racism”: “These folks are delusio... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

When President Trump was elected, in 2016, Horn went into a kind of intellectual retreat: “I immediately sat down. I’d always wanted to read ‘War and Peace.’ Roni Horn Shares a Timely Record of Solitude 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

She sees all of these events — both Ressa’s conviction and the domestic purge of news agencies — as part of the same global movement: populist elected leaders pushing inexorably in the direction of authoritarianism. Perspective | Trump should denounce this assault on press freedom in the Philippines. Instead, he’s imitating it. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

He entered the monastery three days after Pearl Harbor; he died a month after Richard Nixon was elected to his first term as President. The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Which novel begins soon after Tory MP Gerald Fedden has been elected and ends soon after he has been engulfed by sexual and financial scandal? Elections in literature 2010-04-07T08:33:00Z

But shortly after he was elected to the Senate, he did a fundraiser for somebody in the Bay Area, around the end of 2004. Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store” 2012-09-20T15:25:00Z

Nearly one-third of current members of Congress were first elected after the 2018 farm bill was enacted, so this is their first farm bill cycle. These four challenges will shape the next farm bill — and how the US eats 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Cordova was elected in September and assumes the post Monday. Purdue University president to chair Smithsonian 2012-01-23T10:16:04Z

I didn't want to move to Los Angeles and elected not to get involved in production," he said to Province, "but NBC would not make the deal unless I was involved. Unsung Creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Alex Anderson Dies 2010-10-23T14:35:00Z

Claim to Fame: Mr. Greene was elected as Yale’s first Black student body president in 2019, when he was a sophomore majoring in history. A Yale Student Who Makes and Teaches Black History 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Sarah Vaughan, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Richard Pryor and plenty of other actors, musicians and comedians developed broad and substantial followings decades before we elected a black president. The unbearable whiteness of the Letterman farewells: Let this truly be the end of a show-business era 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

In 2001, at 27, Anderson was elected mayor of the tiny municipality, which made her one of the youngest mayors in the United States. The Last Mermaid Show 2013-07-05T13:25:59Z

And so it concludes, urging people to contact their elected representatives and get them to vote against Hagel's nomination. DC's 'reservoir dogs' attack Chuck Hagel with oxymoronic ads 2013-01-24T21:32:43Z

Politicians, in a democracy, must understand that holding elected office means not only maintaining that direct connection to the people, but also incurring some inevitable measure of risk. In potential new security measures around White House, an unnecessary intrusion

True enough, but Axelrod himself later concedes that Obama has not delivered that fundamental change; Washington today is at least as divided, intransigent and unproductive as on the day Obama was elected. Political consultant David Axelrod delivers in revealing 'Believer' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

No one seems satisfied that their elected officials fought the fight for them. The Gulf Coast may never recover 2013-04-23T20:02:00Z

He got elected, and suddenly our criteria for all these things that used to hold everything in place became very loose and shaky. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sanford left the governor’s job in 2011 and was elected to the House of Representative two years later, proving that voters are just as irrational as politicians. Review: In ‘The Speechwriter,’ Barton Swaim Shares Tales of Working for Mark Sanford 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

I've met some other elected leaders over the years, and almost uniformly there's a stiffness about them, a certain distance — even if they're known for their charm. Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' – interview 2013-01-26T21:00:01Z

When she began editing the film shortly after Trump was elected, Reed recalls, the shock and sense of division informed the process. Perspective | At this year’s AFI Docs, torches and pitchforks give way to consensus and reconciliation 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Pakistan's first democratically elected president, he was executed during a military coup in the late 1970s. 'Bhutto': A fascinating documentary about the late Pakistani leader 2011-03-03T21:01:04Z

Six years before, she had been the first Black British woman to get elected to the country’s prestigious Royal Academy of Arts. Fighting Forgetting, With a Venice Biennale Win 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Yes, hold the media accountable, demand transparency and accountability from business and elected leaders, and yes, safely assume Trump is surrounded by people more devious and clever than he is. Stop your Trumpsplaining, the president-elect’s tweets are not simply a “distraction” 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Mr. Whitney stops short of implicating The Paris Review in the overthrow of the democratically elected President Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran, the ouster of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala and other American actions. ArtsBeat: Salon Article Rekindles Debate about Paris Review and C.I.A. 2012-05-29T18:13:10Z

Far fewer, however, worked specifically to put women into elected office. The Women Who Met Hillary, and Spotted a Future Political Star 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

Several elected Florida officials were present, and each took a turn addressing the crowd before Sharpton was scheduled to speak. Calls for 'justice' at Trayvon Martin rally 2012-03-23T11:47:00Z

That’s because the president of the United States is not directly elected by the popular vote. Who selects the president? After millions vote, the choice is up to 538 ‘electors’ 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Colbert also found time to discuss Ivanka Trump’s recent interview where she claimed she wasn’t attempting to change any of her father’s policies, stating that she hasn’t been elected by the American people. Late-night hosts on Fox News: 'The closest we have to state TV' 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The final three delegates are the elected state party leaders.  Close battle for delegates in South 2012-03-13T23:49:00Z

“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” Alito wrote. Perspective | The abortions we didn’t have 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z

Threatened with arrest for his political activities, he fled to France, where he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences and awarded the Légion d'Honneur. Descartes letter found by web surfer heads home to France 2010-06-22T15:04:00Z

If elected, he said, he would strive to replicate Texas’s economic successes in the rest of the nation by cutting spending, lowering taxes and creating a fair regulatory structure. Texas Gov. Rick Perry joins 2012 GOP race 2011-08-13T17:52:00Z

"Every woman here needs to be involved with getting a woman elected," she said. Streep as Clinton? Tribute gets people talking 2012-03-13T00:29:08Z

There was something wonderful about being with James Carville and George Stephanopoulos in The War Room when they elected the President of the United States – undoubtedly we're bonded for life because we shared that moment. DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus: 'A film-maker needs to watch like a cat' 2013-03-06T00:39:54Z

He was the one elected by the French, all that depends on him. Bruni says Sarkozy often thinks about second term 2010-12-15T20:58:34Z

A closer look at the mural also revealed that a photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was taken at Wrigley before he was actually elected, despite what the caption reads. Chicago Cubs make off-the-field error with Wrigley Field mural

So what exactly is a candidate running on the strength of his ability to get elected supposed to do when the polls turn against him? After a ‘gut punch’ in Iowa, a surreal feeling surrounds Biden’s campaign 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

You can hear it when pundits such as Jonathan Walczak argue that even if Clinton is elected, she should voluntarily resign after one term “for her own good”. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Simpson begs to differ: There is, he says, no shortage of self-regard among the 535 elected officials on Capitol Hill — no matter which chamber they serve in. Sucking up has always been part of Washington culture. In the Trump era, it’s a sport. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. James was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006. Sonny James, country hitmaker of ‘Young Love,’ dies at 87 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Aaron Peskin, an elected official in the district where the institute resides, also opposes the sale. San Francisco’s Top Art School Says Future Hinges on a Diego Rivera Mural 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Mexico was never going to pay for that wall, but millions elected the fraudster making that false promise largely due to the confidence in his delivery. Elizabeth Holmes' all-American scam: HBO's "The Inventor" reveals the science of the con 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

The “Daily Show” host then dug into a popularly held belief of that time: Would the recall election send “shockwaves to the political system” and cause elected officials to fear making unpopular decisions? “Daily Show” classics: Hillary Clinton tries to keep a straight face after learning that Arnold Schwarzenegger is California’s new governor 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

When Obama was elected, Oliver was personally and professionally delighted. An Englishman in New York 2011-07-23T23:04:11Z

I don’t mind a far-fetched Homeland: as I said earlier this year, are we really arguing that a show about a POW brainwashed into becoming a terrorist and elected to Congress has gotten implausible? TV Weekend: Ask What Your Homeland Can Do for You 2012-12-14T15:45:36Z

Maybe it's easier just to wait for a text message that a new pope has been elected. Media watching for results of papal conclave 2013-03-12T11:16:05Z

He said that decisions about these matters should be taken by elected governments and not companies. Google defends listing extremist websites in its search results 2013-05-25T15:29:06Z

Cooper also moderated the first debate of the Democratic primary last year, wherein he noted Clinton’s changing positions on several issues and pointedly asked her, “Will you say anything to get elected?” In debate, Trump takes on moderators almost as much as Clinton 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

In 2000, Mr. Moore was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of the “Sideman” category. Scotty Moore, guitarist on Elvis Presley’s groundbreaking Sun Sessions, dies at 84 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Walsh, a Democrat, is a former construction worker who led the city's Building and Construction Trades Council union before being elected mayor in 2013. Teamsters members accused of 'Top Chef' extortion plot face trial 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

He knows that the only way he's going to be elected. "The Comey Rule" will likely trigger Trump, and series star Michael Kelly couldn't be happier 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

Published earlier this year, Davies' book recounts how News Corp. and its subsidiary News International regularly tapped into the voice mail of elected officials, celebrities and ordinary British citizens. George Clooney's 'Hack Attack' calls on 'Theory of Everything' writer 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Left unsaid: Jordan had held elected office for 20 years, first in the state House starting in 1995, and in Congress starting in 2007. Jim Jordan used to torment GOP leaders. Now he’s leading them in defending Trump. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Should Trump be elected on Nov. 8, he shouts, it will be “the biggest f--- you ever recorded in human history.” ‘Michael Moore in TrumpLand’: Part anti-Trump stand-up routine, part pro-Hillary lecture 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

In 2016, Chapman was elected president of the Professional Bail Agents of the United States. Beth Chapman, wife of bounty hunter reality TV star, dies 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vallée elected to give up expensive lighting and locations instead of cutting days off the schedule. The Carpetbagger: ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ Puts McConaughey on Oscar Track 2014-02-05T22:57:52Z

He elected to talk process instead of results. Europe Issue: High-End Dining in Italy 2011-09-30T19:04:19Z

An ardent suffragist who chafed against the restrictions of her life in Kenosha, she was elected to the school board, becoming the first woman to hold an elected public office in the city. ‘Young Orson’ review: an audacious new biography of Orson Welles 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Warner Bros. elected to split “The Hobbit” into three films, the second of which opens in theaters Friday. Weinsteins Sue Warner Bros. Over ‘Hobbit’ Profits 2013-12-11T20:46:12Z

Season 1 premiered in April 2017 but production started long before Hillary Clinton lost her bid to become the first woman in the White House and Donald Trump was elected U.S. president. 'Handmaid's Tale' returns to television, darker and more chilling 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Now a 95-year-old private citizen, he continues to negotiate on behalf of wealthy clients and elected leaders who seek influence in foreign lands. Learning From Henry Kissinger 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Trump has never endorsed a book by an elected Democrat or a local official of any party while in office. ‘Great new book!’: President Trump and his many, many tweets about his favorite authors 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

“If he’s elected and he builds that wall, the first person we’re throwing over it is Mark Burnett,” Mr. Kimmel said. Emmy Awards 2016: Emmys Welcome Surprises Along With the Favorites 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

For example, people perceived to have low self-esteem are less likely to be asked out on dates or elected to political office. Why do women still get judged so harshly for having casual sex? 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

More recently, it was the opulent Four Seas, whose guests were Chinese dignitaries, elected officials and A-list celebrities like Vince Vaughn. Acclaimed chef Brandon Jew: How did San Francisco's Chinatown succeed? Through the food 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

The incumbent Democratic Governor, Gray Davis, who had been elected just the prior year, faced vigorous opposition for having mismanaged the events preceding and surrounding the state’s energy crisis. Early stage idiocracy: Trump won’t be the last celebrity-turned-politician 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

Love was first elected in 2014 and served two terms in a suburban Salt Lake City district before her narrow loss. Former Republican Rep. Mia Love joining CNN as commentator 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

The decision to pardon Nixon may have ensured that Ford would not be elected to his own full term as president in 1976. Gerald Ford, President Nice Guy 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

If these two parties don’t get their act together, the next generation may be elected outside of this two-party apparatus. How the Clinton-Gingrich years became ‘the good old days’: Republicans revisit 1994 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

He would accept honorary degrees and be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

According to every justification for Trump’s ascendancy to political leadership, Kardashian is vastly superior not only to every elected Republican official; she far surpasses Donald Trump himself. Kim Kardashian is the GOP’s only hope: If American democracy is now a reality show, let’s bring in a real star 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

“Rabin” shows a democratically elected leader not merely criticized and disrespected but demonized, depicted as a dictator and a monster, a traitor, an alien and an enemy of his people. Review: Amos Gitai’s ‘Rabin, the Last Day’ Looks Back in Anguish 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

As the play opens, Johnson has just been elected to a full presidential term, but there’s no time for a celebratory fishing trip, because he’s already facing a full slate of problems. In ‘The Great Society,’ Jack Willis Stars as Johnson 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

For the new take, Adler elected to retain the sax solo from the original that had been performed by Clayton’s husband. The Unstoppable Merry Clayton 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

Even when he was dying of cancer, even when all but one of his doctors said he might as well go back on the bottle, he elected to stay dry. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

In 1994, he was the first Latin American writer to be elected to the Spanish Academy, where he took his seat in 1996. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T12:44:00Z

Quite often, the guests weren’t even famous, and Mr. Colbert interviewed scores of elected officials, journalists and scientists. ‘Stephen Colbert’ Says Goodbye as Stephen Colbert Heads to CBS 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

We were elected to show our differences, not to go along with the status quo or to go along with tradition. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

And if we actually challenge people, if we condemn elected officials who engage in the politics of fear and anger, we’ll create a very different political environment. The author of ‘Just Mercy’ says we’ve made talking about race political — and that has to change 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

President Donald Trump is threatening to sue NBC and “Saturday Night Live” after the show's parody of the Christmas classic “It’s A Wonderful Life” last weekend imagined a world where Trump was never elected president. Donald Trump can't forgive "Saturday Night Live" for not loving him back 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the mayor, said on Tuesday that Mr. Adams was able to attend the Met Gala “under a rule reserved for elected officials promoting cultural institutions.” The ‘Swagger Mayor’ Attends His First Met Gala 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

In the presence of B-list celebrities — including over-the-hill athletes, pro wrestlers, comics and a lingerie model — the man we twice elected to the state’s highest post improbably exuded insubstantiality. Chicago News Cooperative: ?Celebrity Apprentice,? a Primer for Blagojevich and His Prosecutors 2010-04-09T03:30:00Z

There have been plenty of celebrities, from lists A through C, who have made their way into elected politics. ‘American Idol’ made Clay Aiken a star. But he knows it won’t make him a congressman.

“We’ve chosen to stay away from the pool,” says Rep. Ron Reynolds, the first African-American state elected official in Fort Bend County since Reconstruction. Texas Democrats are in their fifth week of exile, and grappling with the toll of an endless summer on the run 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Warner was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017. Perspective | Taylor Heinicke isn’t the only quarterback with an unlikely path to a starting position 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

There is a consistent vilification of the “other,” including American citizens, elected representatives and people of color who were born in this country. Perspective | Will our migrant detention cages be studied in tomorrow’s museums? 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

We are seeing literally elected officials talking about who is expendable. "Our ageism is linked to the economy": Author challenges discussion of who is expendable 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

“But they do some really low things to get elected.” Political Plotlines in Liberal Doses 2011-06-22T22:13:03Z

“With his election came a need to deeply study things that I didn’t understand enough, including why did he get elected,” Fonda said. Jane Fonda on joining the climate fight: 'It's back to the barricades' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

This November, in Denver, Leslie Herod became the first gay African-American to be elected to the state’s House of Representatives. Gay America’s Harrowing, Heartening Year 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

For this reason, I elected for my main course to stay with branzino — grilled whole and then filleted — and was not the least disappointed. An Adriatic Feast on the Italian Coast 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

He complains that the qualifications for holding public office are too lax one second, then rails against the elitism of our elected officials in the next. Saturday Night Live: Alec Baldwin and Jim Carrey face off in debate parody 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

He’s 115 years old, the last surviving veteran of World War I, and he’s dying in a Chicago nursing home bed in the hours after Donald Trump has been elected president. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

We wanted to believe in a country where decency and civility still mattered, and where someone so crude, spiteful and intemperate could never be elected — because America was better than that. The media didn’t want to believe Trump could win. So they looked the other way. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

“Our alliance was born out of not shared borders but need,” said Biden, in his 49th year in elected office, and on day two of his campaign to ask for four more. At the state dinner for South Korea, two nations toast an anniversary 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Political comedy is a dense field of tough decisions to navigate; the decision to bring elected officials on a TV show for a punchline is never an easy one. Tina Fey revisits Sarah Palin guest spot on "SNL": "That’s what they’ll show when I die" 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

“At school, we were told democracy is the most important value in our society, and then our head of state isn’t elected,” he noted. Watching ‘The Crown’ With Britain’s Anti-Monarchists: ‘I Feel Queasy’ 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

In fact, the "portrait of Detroit as the ultimate failed American city" was a self portrait painted by the citizens and the people they elected to lead them. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Once elected president, Putin set about quashing the political dominance of the oligarchs. The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of?the KGB by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

During their visit to Brown Chapel, the elected officials can look over at the George Washington Carver Homes and see families on welfare. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

After Warner was elected, she got sweet revenge when she took her purple Halston pantsuit out of mothballs and wore it proudly to a luncheon thrown for her by the Republican ladies. Elizabeth Taylor loved John Warner. Life in Washington nearly killed her. 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

Also, Chief Smith was elected to his second term in office. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

After President Trump was elected, Waller began to see Schlafly not just as an anti-feminist, but a “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution” — a key figure in the rise of the religious right. ‘Mrs. America’ Depicts a Different Kind of Feminist: The Anti- Kind 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

“I don’t need to be appointed or elected,” she said. An Emerging Hispanic Voice Defends Her ‘Maids’ 2013-06-24T22:13:04Z

During one in November, Moseley Braun was even the subject of a Biden gaffe, when he cited her support and referred to her as the “only African American woman ever elected to the Senate.” Former senator Carol Moseley Braun is back on the campaign trail, stumping for Joe Biden 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Due to this embarrassment, multiple elected officials and high level government employees made inflammatory comments about PFC Manning and her case. Manning’s laywer: She didn’t receive a fair trial 2014-03-27T16:33:00Z

Ms. Fleming and the company’s music director, Andrew Davis, were both elected vice presidents of the board of directors. Fleming Adds New Role, Helping Guide Opera Troupe 2010-12-09T22:13:00Z

John F. Kennedy had just been elected president; the Russkies were about to send the first man into space. Party Like It’s 1959 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

But according to Dhillon, that quickly morphed into a demand from the bureau chief that the story must only spotlight the majority of women elected, who were all white. Sam Bee's "Full Frontal" moral compass: Why her brand of comedy is more important than ever 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The larger issue, suggests BuzzFeed’s Miller, is what Trump’s inexplicable pattern of banning media outlets says about how he will act if he’s elected. No, there’s no rhyme or reason to Trump’s ban on news organizations 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

It was Friday and McCain’s body lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda, draped in a U.S. flag and surrounded by elected officials and members of the public who had come to pay their respects. Visitors to the Vietnam Wall reflect on McCain’s legacy 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

October included another Twitter stunt, this time meant to allow those ID-makers to campaign online to be elected mayor of various districts of Panem. How 'Hunger Games' movie built up must-see fever 2012-03-19T22:40:23Z

The rumour that, when he was emperor, Caligula made his beloved horse Incitatus a consul – the highest elected office of the time – was dispelled with some of Beard's cool new cant. Caligula with Mary Beard – TV review 2013-07-30T06:01:00Z

As for Trump: “In my lifetime, he’s the oddest person to be elected president … he’s an egomaniac, a wildcard, a casino-owner: how much tax does he pay?” The 100-year-old couple – still married, still going strong 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

In 2001 he was the first of that generation to be to be elected to the Royal Academy of Arts. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z

"Every year there are personally men and women who I'm surprised they didn't get a nomination," said Boone Isaacs, who was elected the academy's first African-American president in 2013. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invites 322 to join in diversity effort 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

As the story begins, the South Carolina lawmaker expects to be named secretary of state by the newly elected president. "Diabolical" Spacey plots revenge in Netflix show "House of Cards" 2013-01-30T15:07:28Z

Or wait, is there also a political intrigue plot surrounding an elected official? "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

He was elected to the small-business hall of fame in South Dakota. A Conversation Between Philip Caputo and William Least Heat-Moon 2013-07-11T18:37:57Z

He appears, for a rare instant, to be absorbing the gravity and daunting nature of the office he had been elected to hold. Donald Trump, Hiding in Plain Sight 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

He added, “My decision process was that, like many others, I never believed that Trump would be elected.” Protesting Trump, Christo Halts River Project in Colorado 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Roosevelt wrote this children’s primer on democracy in 1932, the same year her husband was elected president. New & Noteworthy 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

But arts administrators around the nation said in interviews that culture had enjoyed bipartisan support in recent years, and that they were hopeful their elected officials could be persuaded to keep the programs. Arts Groups Draft Battle Plans as Trump Funding Cuts Loom 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

When we filled out our forms, we elected to be notified by text for negative results, not letter or phone call. The new healthy me is still Black in COVID's America 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

The show does start well with the RA's Central Hall exhibiting work by newly elected Academicians. RA's 'sprawling' Summer Exhibition 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

And it’s a custom that Melania Trump seemed to embrace when she announced that she would focus on fighting cyber bullying if her husband was elected. Will Melania Trump actually speak up about online bullying? Or was the whole thing just more first-family PR? 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

The Texan was elected to the state Legislature more than a quarter-century ago and has never lost an election, winning statewide six times, including three times for governor. GOP race could become Perry vs. Romney 2011-08-13T00:09:00Z

No small part of the fascination is that he is openly gay, twice elected in what he has sardonically described as “flyover country.” A Memoir From the Young, Gay Mayor of South Bend Running for President 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Many media analysts observed that this is the type of probative interview professional journalists should be conducting with elected officials. The problem with "The Problem with Jon Stewart" is that it's not more widely available 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

Members of the other chamber of Congress, the Senate, are elected for six years. On Election Day, cast your vote for the best book about elections

Another interpretation is that they were simply reminding us that they remain in power no matter who wins, and no matter what that person may have said to get elected. Charles Koch goes full Tyrion Lannister: His threat to back Hillary hints at the brothers’ devious game of thrones 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

The Onion's Joe Biden fancies cheap beer and nights of debauchery, actual Biden reportedly does not drink alcohol and was one of the youngest people elected to the senate at age 29. Diamond Joe Biden: the beer-guzzling vice-presidential caricature 2013-01-25T16:48:10Z

Mr. Quijada instead elected to write and perform a solo hip-hop show, the engaging and obliging “Where Did We Sit on the Bus?,” directed by Chay Yew at the Ensemble Studio Theater. When Life’s a Crazy Mess, Try Going Onstage 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

After Obama’s election, Steele was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Sad Attempt to Make Trumpism Cool 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Kimmel, known for his genial but deadpan delivery, got high marks as last year’s Academy Awards host when then-newly elected Trump and his policies became a running gag. Jimmy Kimmel's mission impossible - Oscar host in midst of #MeToo 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

In Quade's case, that someone came in the form of male elected officials from both sides of the aisle. Don’t talk about race, guns or being gay, they said. She refused, and flipped a Tea Party seat... 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

After the traumatic experience of sitting through Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention in Cleveland last July, I sat up all night and began to entertain the notion that he might actually be elected. Leonard Cohen, Hillary Clinton and the future: Where does the Democratic Party go after this crushing defeat? 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

We can always demand disclosure from our elected officials and make sure that we know where the money is coming from and they know that we're going to be voting on that issue. Who’s buying our elections? Inside the shadowy world of “Dark Money” 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

They are clearly in different positions: Ms. Harris an elected official steering the country; Dr. Biden a political spouse. 100 Days of Vice-Presidential Style 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

He hit candidates early at their vulnerabilities, asking Mrs. Clinton, “Will you say anything to get elected?” and asking Mr. Sanders if he could hope to get elected as a self-described democratic socialist. In First Debate, Democrats Keep the Drama to a Minimum 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Principal Chief Chad Smith, who was first elected to the tribe’s highest office in 1999, had just clinched his second term. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

Richard Nixon was elected to office in 1968 on a pledge to end the Vietnam war. Mad Men recap: season six, episode 12 – The Quality of Mercy 2013-06-19T22:00:00Z

The film is sympathetic to their cause, which is essentially a cry for freedom, the interviews with the seven elected presidents forming its spinal cord. Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms 2010-07-26T20:31:00Z

So it goes for many of America’s late-night TV hosts, who for more than a year aimed their comedic barbs at Donald J. Trump, only to see him elected president on Tuesday night. On Late Night, Comedians Grapple With Trump’s Victory 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Ben tells her it’s good news since once Jonah gets elected, he’ll support her presidency. ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 6: The Affront 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

He visited the United States shortly after Richard M. Nixon was elected president in 1968, seeking to determine whether the nation was on the verge of a dangerous swing to the right. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Polymathic Cultural Historian, Dies at 81 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Damon added: “Although if he does get elected we might have to worry Mexico will build a wall to keep him out.” Matt Damon aims barb at Donald Trump at New York Comic Con 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

I was elected vice president of the town council while I was pregnant with Bobby. “I didn’t feel fit to be a mother:” I was holding it together, pushing through, getting by, and then one night, I wasn’t 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

The League is a theocratic, secessionist organization whose leader, Michael Hill, had called for the formation of death squads targeting journalists, elected officials and other members of “the elite.” Exclusive: Inside accused Annapolis shooter’s alt-right theology of mass murder 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

His goal is to be elected president — a position from which, he announces this season, he would not hesitate to launch a nuclear first strike should he judge it necessary. As ‘Billions’ Ends, Its Creators Discuss the Changing Face of the Ultrarich 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

After he was elected, she traveled frequently to Washington, staying in a third-floor residence quarters bedroom with butterflies on the wallpaper. From press paranoia to affairs: A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

It was still a place where no girl had been elected student council president — but it was becoming one where a girl knew that she could run. Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

He reminds us that Agricola’s Latin treatise “De Re Metallica” was translated by Herbert Hoover, the only mining engineer to be elected president of the United States. ‘Steel’ review: Honoring the industry that once symbolized our strength 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

And then for the big bravura move, she said, “They can wait if they like until next November for the actual balloting, but Donald Trump was elected president tonight.” Ann Coulter’s odious anti-Muslim rants: Of course she’s exploiting the Paris terror attacks to entertain racist, xenophobic fans 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

It’s an inherently political statement, though according to the festival’s organizers, it “isn’t about getting elected, or being protected; it’s about staking a claim.” Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Clinton, the last federally elected Democrat to win the state, remains a Kentucky favorite. On the trail in Kentucky, Bill Clinton gets practice playing second fiddle

Many of the speakers on Monday were not politicians, maybe partly because so many elected Republicans took a pass. G.O.P. Convention Begins With Trump Written All Over It 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

At some point over the summer, it struck me that the greater part of the media wanted Trump to be elected, consciously or unconsciously. The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

"Further discussions may include a body made up of elected indigenous peoples who would advise parliament on laws or a treaty between the state and indigenous people." Aboriginal Australians meet at sacred Uluru to discuss first chance of recognition 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Despite a successful sojourn into fictional politics, Streep said she harbored no desire to pursue elected office in real life. Meryl Streep for President 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

That secrecy speaks to our well-established cultural norms of what is and is not acceptable in an elected figure. What’s wrong with Jesse Jackson Jr.? 2012-07-12T16:35:00Z

I belong to a private club of 200 high-powered women, among them business executives, lawyers, elected officials, doctors, academics and artists — nearly all of them French. | Leg Work 2011-09-07T21:58:28Z

As someone who was unceremoniously dumped after 22 years in elected office, Cantor has a few thoughts. Two years ago, Eric Cantor lost his House seat. Was it just in the nick of time? 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sittenfeld said she would not be interested in writing a novel that imagined that Mrs. Clinton was elected the 45th president of the United States. 20 Years After Diana’s Death, a Happier Ending Imagined 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

After Grant was elected president, Sherman replaced him as America’s leading general. Marching through Georgia 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

A masterly account of how a generation of black elected officials wrestled with crises of violence and drug use by unleashing the brutal power of the criminal justice system on their constituents. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

“It was not a fluke,” she said at the time, and the women of color who have since been elected to the city council credit her with paving the way. For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

But the Philippines didn’t feel stable, especially when Marcos, who was elected president in 1965, decided he wanted to stay in power and declared martial law. A Powerful Story of Coming to America, Finding Promise and Paradox 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

“This was 2007, before Barack Obama had been elected, and he and Hillary Clinton were fighting over their nomination and neither of them supported gay marriage,” said Mr. Malamut. For Two Fraternity Brothers, an Even Stronger Bond 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

The Philharmonic’s players elected him to the chief conductor post in 2015 after he’d led the orchestra only three times, and he’s appeared here only a few times so far this season. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Newell: A man at a book fair told us that we were the reason that Trump was getting elected. The founders of Reductress bring their wit — and new book — to L.A. 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

And Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States and reelected four years later. Racism is “America’s original sin”: Unless we tell the truth about our history, we’ll never find the way to reconciliation 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

After he was first elected in 2006, Sadovyi banned cars from the historic city center’s cobblestone squares and streets, turning them into pedestrian walkways lined with sidewalk restaurants and cafes. To House Refugees, Lviv Wants to Make Beautiful Buildings That Last 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

Not one of the judges on the US supreme court of justice has ever worked as a defence counsel, and district attorneys are elected – so they have a vested interest in appearing draconian. Clive Stafford Smith: 'The jury system in this country is utter insanity' 2012-07-08T19:00:02Z

The hush-money payment occurred just days before Trump was elected president. Jury notes deadlock on 1st charge in Avenatti fraud trial 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

What’s jaw-dropping about the tales in “Tail! Spin!” is the conviction you come away with that our elected leaders appear to believe that their anointment somehow comes with a magic shield of invisibility. Rachel Dratch in ‘Tail! Spin!,’ a Political Comedy of Errors 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

For the idea that Trump might be elected is as crazy as the man is. Why Trump Is Different—and Must Be Repelled 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

For most presidents, Washington is a hackneyed metaphor for bad governance, for the dysfunction they have been elected to fix. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Weaver began his career with Gramm, who became a Democratic congressman, switched parties, was elected to the Senate and eventually ran for president. The fall of John Weaver, a Lincoln Project co-founder whose political career was shrouded in mystery 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

In 1992, he was appointed MBE – which his mother only discovered when casually reading the published newspaper lists – and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Terry Ball obituary 2011-03-22T18:24:10Z

Most importantly, they don’t exist, so they won’t plunge the world into a nightmare of war and corruption if they get elected. Vote your cast: who is the greatest fictional US president? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Walker was not elected associate of the RA until 1940; she never attained full membership. Paula Rego is the fourth woman artist to be made a dame. I wish she'd refused 2010-06-20T20:45:00Z

Now, in all but the most remote places, elected bodies have taken over many of the responsibilities. On Slavery’s Doorstep in Ghana 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

While he stopped short of calling for the flyover project to be halted, Durbin said it is common for elected officials to try to persuade winning contractors to include minorities and local companies. $86M in Red Line improvements to 7 stations 2012-04-27T19:55:00Z

Lots of material, then, for Yes, Minister's guiding principle, the gentle satire on a governing system in which elected politicians are outmanoeuvred by their more worldly, unelected officials. TV review: Yes, Prime Minister 2012-11-27T00:46:12Z

The band performed a "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral shortly before Putin was elected to a third term, entreating the Virgin Mary to save Russia from Putin. Judges reject Pussy Riot appeal against conviction 2013-03-20T11:33:10Z

In early 1993, word came back to O’Dowd from the IRA that they needed a current elected official as part of the group to give it more gravitas and attract more attention. How an undocumented Irish immigrant became an unofficial U.S. diplomat 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

In a historic first, the Democrats approved a platform at the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia that explicitly called for elected officials to overturn the Hyde amendment. Women’s rights groups brace for Trump: ‘We are used to fighting impossible odds’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Barrett even ran for office in New Jersey and became an elected official. Democracy, not consumption is "how we will amass power to challenge the corporate behemoth" 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Franco, of course, was receiving massive military assistance from Germany and Italy, while the United States and Britain refused to help Spain’s elected government. Book World: ‘Midnight in Europe,’ by Alan Furst

After Trump was elected, it looked like the Bidens might finally retire from public life. Jill Biden has never wanted to be first lady, but Joe can’t win the White House without her 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

The video ends with an announcer asking viewers to call their elected officials. Fake Former Presidents Use Comedy for a Cause 2010-03-05T23:12:00Z

To be surprised on the morning that Donald Trump was elected? Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

But I elected to go with the linguine and canocchie, which I love for its chewy richness but tend to avoid when it’s not already extracted from its tenacious shell. An Adriatic Feast on the Italian Coast 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Unlike Wisconsin, Ohio's Constitution makes no provision for recalling elected officials. Wis. victory may give GOP a national boost 2011-08-10T11:47:00Z

As he was starting the novel in 1851, elected President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was staging the coup d'état that would transform him from president to emperor. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sanders worked on Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign and joined the administration when he was elected. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Praised by Trump as ‘a Warrior,’ Is Writing a Book 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

In Chicago, at her brother's kitchen table while helping to get him elected president. President's sister puts their mom in picture book 2011-04-12T11:13:09Z

And you certainly don’t do what Chris Cuomo did: involve himself with a crisis-management effort that could influence the outcome of a criminal investigation of the highest elected official in New York. Perspective | Why Chris Cuomo’s ‘family first’ defense just doesn’t fly 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

He will be the first to be recorded using such language, have it widely reported, and still be elected. A president unlike any other 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Throughout the evening, Mr. Seale stressed the importance of getting more African-Americans elected to office. D’Angelo and Bobby Seale on the Past and Future of Political Protest 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pillsbury — prudently, in the view of many American art critics — elected to remain in Texas. Edmund P. Pillsbury, Curator at Kimbell, Dies at 66 2010-03-31T04:10:00Z

And it taps into a crisis significant enough to be a viable pillar of political platforms held by elected officials such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Game show “Paid Off” targets the student loan crisis: A subversive warning about a looming em... 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

He’ll join a freshman class with two dozen other newly elected House members who are under 40 and, at least, 15 who are veterans. Dan Crenshaw started the week as a punchline and ended it as a star. The real story came before that. 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

There's no winning those people back or the congressmen they elected to represent them. After Chris Licht, people are wondering where CNN goes from here. Here's a wild suggestion 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

Your local representatives, your state senators, your United States senators, your congress representatives, your county supervisors, these are all elected positions. Kathy Griffin still gets death threats: "They got me, but they never got me down" 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

And in a democracy power comes from being elected, from our votes at a ballot box. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

It deals with teaching young people to get involved with issues in the community by volunteering, writing letters to elected officials, and peaceful protest. H.E.R. among artists educating kids on civics in new series 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

None of the elected officials are in double digits.” Chris Matthews eviscerates dysfunctional GOP: “There is something wrong with a party when they can’t pick a leader” 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

More women were elected to parliament; by 1999, more than a third of MPs were women. Why Iceland is the best place in the world to be a woman 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

“You know, Lee, you aren’t too young to run for Congress,” his boss tells him, suggesting that Lee could have a bright future in elected office. Books of The Times: A Devil Who Takes the Side of Angels 2010-02-25T00:18:00Z

As a national museum, Brazil’s elected officials were responsible for directing the appropriate funds to the museum. Lesson from Brazil: Museums are not forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

The specialist did nothing for months, according to Doré Mead, a retired elected official from Minneapolis. Perspective | Watch out for these pandemic travel scams 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

She remembers driving to Oregon with her white mother right before Trump was elected in 2016. Amid rising racial tensions, parts of the Pacific Northwest don’t feel safe, BIPOC travelers say. Do we need a new Green Book? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

That was the high point of his career — getting his boss elected as president. Rebirth of Book by Aide to Carter 2013-07-26T21:47:53Z

He was handily elected to Congress as a Republican and served for six years. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z

His parents said the bullying got worse when the president was elected in 2016. Special guest steals the spotlight at State of the Union 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

If elected, Abrams wouldn't be the first romance novelist to win statewide office. Will a romance novelist be the next governor of Georgia? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

“This whole thing started not that long ago, right after Trump was elected, the Saturday after the election,” Fiore said. Women strike back: Two New York exhibits showcase female artists resisting Donald Trump’s misogynist backlash 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

It turns out they support it in Wisconsin, where, earlier this month, liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the state’s Supreme Court by a hefty 11 percentage points. Perspective | Republicans are digging themselves into a hole on abortion 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

By the time the campaign had faltered, I had changed my mind, writing, “For the first time . . . I believed a gay man could be elected president.” Review | Chasten Buttigieg’s ‘I Have Something to Tell You’ is refreshingly candid, but a missed opportunity 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

This was because she was able to measure in advance, due to the access George and Barbara Bush gave to the Clintons after Bill Clinton was elected. Presidents come and go, but these curtains are forever 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

It’s hard to tell what the current government, elected on a promise to repudiate the corruption of the old regime, may mean for Passikudah. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

If his wife and her running mate, Joe Biden, are elected, Harris would accumulate several firsts: first female vice president, first Black veep, first No. 2 born to Indian American and Jamaican American parents. Doug Emhoff paused his career for his wife Kamala Harris’s aspirations — and became the campaign’s ‘secret weapon’ 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s the elected officials in Washington who are out of step. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Americans who are hitting one obstacle after another: ‘That is why I persist’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

On the state level, newly elected legislators push their own agendas more vigorously whether they are on the right or the left, Storey said, because they don’t know how long they’ll be around. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z

I was fortunate enough to be connected with the National Organization for Women and another organization identifying women for appointments and encouraging women to get elected. Maxine Waters: ‘If I want to fight, I want to fight with the lions’ 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

But it makes a visual point: Having a longtime pop-culture figure become president is surreal — a fictional drawing jumping off the screen and walking among us, as if America had elected Cap’n Crunch. Review: ‘Our Cartoon President’ Misses a Huuuge Target 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

The guidelines were not laws, however, and after Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, his distaste for regulation undid much of ACT’s progress. Peggy Charren, Children’s TV Crusader, Dies at 86 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Amin returned from a 30-year exile to be elected as a member of Libya’s post-revolutionary government, but within a year, he was forced back into exile when armed militias took control. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

"He was elected as a Senior Member of the Royal Academy on 9 March 2004 and will be much missed by the RA as well as his friends and admirers internationally." Sculptor Sir Anthony Caro dies 2013-10-24T12:24:23Z

Vali and her family crossed into California 12 years earlier, not long before the president was elected to his second term. Young Adult Dystopian Fiction That Feels Pretty Real 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

“Racism doesn’t really exist anymore, and I know this because we elected a black president!” Hate is alive in America — and it’s tearing us apart 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

A particular concern for him at the moment is Donald Trump getting elected. 'My granddaughter loses sleep over terrorism': how children respond to global events 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

When people buy a painting, they don’t also buy McNaughton to come to their house and explain how “You Are Not Forgotten” is merely an observational statement about the demographics who elected Trump. The most famous pro-Trump artist in the U.S. has moved into his ‘Mueller’ phase. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

“And it’s exciting, not only that he got elected and that Stephen Harper’s finally gone, but because the Liberals have a majority in parliament.” Ellen Page: ‘Being out became more important than any movie’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

But then Trump was elected, and a year later, the #MeToo movement took wing. Carefully Smash the Patriarchy 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

And let’s face it, her secretive behavior now offers a bleak look at what media access will be like if she’s elected. It’s time for Hillary Clinton to face the music — and the media 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

I was there when Obama got elected in Union Square. Lana Del Rey on Trump, Kanye and the Right Time for a Protest Song 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

And with more “political will”, which is really just willpower writ large, we could forestall the worst consequences of climate change, or stop quasi-fascist confidence tricksters from getting elected president. How to keep your resolutions (clue: it's not all about willpower) 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

Shortly before the pandemic struck, Greedo retained a prominent Houston attorney, Morris Overstreet, a former Potter County prosecutor and the first African American attorney ever elected to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. 03 Greedo has spent the last two years in a Texas prison but is still the beating heart of L.A.’s rap scene 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

She decided she was O.K. with publicly skirting the truth about Bishop’s funding of her political action committee if it contributed to the greater good of her being elected state’s attorney. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Alicia, Mind Wandering, Figures Out a Few Things 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

“Actually, it’s who y’all elected. Trump is bad PR for white men! Did he get a black vote other than Uncle Ben Carson?” Donald Trump is the perfect teaching tool for White Privilege 101 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Going home in the bus with the other bishops after he was elected. Karen Armstrong's thinking shifts on religion and violence

‘I ran for mayor, but I didn’t get elected which is fine because now I can be home with my kids which is really my calling.’ Where are the realistic TV moms? 2014-02-09T21:00:00Z

Napoleon III, of course, began as an elected President and ended up a self-appointed emperor, having decided that he might better serve the general interest by retaining power for life. Will Scandal Sink Emmanuel Macron? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Next up as curator is the recently elected mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. London Bookstores Go Rogue as No Wi-Fi Zones 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Truman’s theory was that “she was not the one that had been elected,” Ms. Graddy said. Reluctant First Lady? Melania Trump Wouldn’t Be the First to Claim That Title 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

His career began in 1962 when, at the age of 30, he was first elected to Congress. Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:24Z

But I think you were elected to be out here with judgment and you had to swear an oath to protect against foreign and domestic enemies. Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger: Impeaching Trump ‘was, frankly, an easy decision’ 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Those execrable three words are murmured by sorrowful elected officials in times of tragedy but rarely burdened with any actual plans or action. Perspective | The ‘commander in grief’ steps up to the microphone 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

And then, after that, we almost elected a woman, who happened to be Hillary Clinton? Perspective | Dear Brood X cicadas: Welcome back to our messed-up world. Here’s what you missed. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

But nobody elected me the boss of literary commerce. ‘The Art of Memoir’ review: Mary Karr’s advice for telling your life story 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

The Correspondents' Dinner, to me, is an opportunity for the constituents to say something back to the elected officials. "I need to host": Roy Wood Jr. talks "The Daily Show" and why late-night TV needs change 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

Do you remember the day after Obama was elected, suddenly, there was a discussion of a phrase called post-race? ‘Kindred’ Creator Wants Viewers to ‘Question Their Assumptions’ 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

Last year, after an unofficial campaign period and two rounds of voting, he was elected the “night-life mayor” of Paris, beating out 13 other nocturnally inclined candidates. | Party Monstre 2014-03-31T19:00:23Z

Nancy Pelosi, elected the first female speaker of the House 12 years ago, was poised to assume the role again. Perspective | Who cares whether you think these women are likable. They’re in power now. 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

A right-wing coup, led by Francisco Franco and backed by Hitler and Mussolini, toppled a democratically elected government. Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

In a world where someone like Trump can be elected President, it is clear to me that far too many Americans lack both. The Most Riveting Host in Late Night (and the Most Overlooked) 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

Will a City Council, newly elected by districts instead of citywide in 2015, support a huge new investment in a downtown project? The push to see Seattle waterfront transformed 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

Well, when we were incarcerated, all of the elected officials made sweeping ignorant statements, generalizations that we're potential spies, saboteurs, fifth columnists, with no evidence of that. Takei discusses new book, Trump's "evil" 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

He was elected president in 1980 as the preeminent opponent of detente. Donald Trump needs his “Day After” moment: We’ve heard reckless rhetoric from a Republican before — then Ronald Reagan negotiated nuclear disarmament 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Lincoln was the first chief executive not elected from the ranks of the agrarian aristocrats who founded the republic. How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Who in their right mind runs for elected office when their children are 1 and 3?” she laughed. Hugs, flags, tears, kids: Inside the heart-tugging world of today’s super-viral campaign ads 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

It was a hit, so popular that the curators elected to keep it on view a year longer than its planned run. Review: Robert Irwin Shows a Calming Installation at Dia:Beacon 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

With the new appointments, Benedict, who was elected in a secret conclave in 2005, has now named more than half the cardinal electors. Pope leaves stamp on Church future with new cardinals 2012-02-18T11:53:00Z

If I wanted to be an elected official, that’s not enough. Struggles for Jesse Jackson, Father and Son 2012-11-23T21:27:53Z

Mirik Milan, 36 and a former nightclub promoter, was elected in 2012 and tasked with sustaining Amsterdam’s night life while still appeasing local residents. What Europe’s ‘Night Mayors’ Can Teach New York 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

The first dinner was held in 1921, when a group of reporters who had covered Warren G. Harding’s presidential campaign got together to fete the newly elected president. For Obama’s final correspondents’ dinner, the obvious targets: Trump, Cruz and himself 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

Sean Hannity, he went on to explain, “is trying to get conservatives elected. And he wants you to listen to him and believe what he believes. And I’m disseminating facts.” The faith of the Fox Nation: belief in opinions trumps hope in news 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

If elected, you will become the oldest man ever to hold that office. The Ups and Downs of Fashion in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

On Election Day, a man was elected president who launched his campaign by calling Mexicans "rapists" and criminals. "My existence is my resistance": "Chicano Eats" author Esteban Castillo on the politics of food 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

On July 1, a new president will be elected for a six-year term. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z

It’s when she as head of state, and they as head of an elected government come together, there’s something very interesting happening there. See the Trailer for the New Netflix Series About Queen Elizabeth 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

It went negative only about the demands of the job, leaving Trump—just as his detractors imagine he will be on the major issues if elected—entirely absent. Convention's Obama Video Seeks to Define 'Presidential' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Being a determined woman she did soften it significantly to sound less hectoring, and it all helped get her elected – and stay elected. Does Meryl Streep shine as the Iron Lady? 2011-07-07T14:51:30Z

Then there's the normally sedate Nanni Moretti, whose curiously titled "We Have a Pope" looks at the relationship between a recently elected pontiff and his therapist. Cannes turns to big stars, edgy auteurs 2011-05-08T23:02:44Z

I happen to be working with the Chicago Tribune when he gets elected to the Senate. Pete Souza on throwing shade at Trump: ‘I couldn’t just sit by and not do anything’ 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

The next year, four more women were elected, tripling the total. Still Thinking About Anita Hill 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

“WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.” T Magazine: The Unlikely Activist 2013-05-29T15:00:48Z

Who lies constantly, including about the possibility of the election being rigged if he’s not elected? Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Vox” opens during the administration of a totalitarian leader elected after the term of America’s first black president. Review | Donald Trump has made feminist dystopias great again 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

In “Recessional,” he writes that Trump “speaks American, and those of us who also love the language are awed and delighted to hear it from an elected official.” As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

“When a president is in the process of being elected, there’s uncertainty about the future of the market so people cut down on discretionary expenses such as travel,” he said. For Summer, Five Hot Destinations 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

“No one elected Wendy Schmidt or ReMain Nantucket to solve our parking issues,” Mr. Sanders told the selectmen at the June meeting. Nantucket Benefits From a Google Long-Distance Marriage 2012-08-29T20:34:37Z

“He has been elected almost as long as I’ve been alive in some capacity in this state,” Chambers says of Kennedy. This marijuana-smoking, Confederate flag-burning Senate candidate is having a ball 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

Public employee unions are leading an effort to recall Walker, who was elected a year ago. Protest interrupts Wis. gov.'s Chicago visit 2011-11-03T13:45:00Z

So I put together a group of people, and they elected the name Bernadette Corporation. Bernadette Corporation: 'Don't have sex with each other' 2013-03-24T21:00:01Z

Before he was 20, he exhibited his work at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, which elected him a member in 1853. Art Review: William Trost Richards at National Academy Museum 2013-08-15T20:21:06Z

When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president of the United States in November 1932, his wife, Eleanor, made an extraordinary admission to the Associated Press reporter on the Roosevelt beat. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Close Relationship With the Journalist Lorena Hickok 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Basically all elected officials, they get satisfaction from being loved by their peers,” Amash said, leaning forward on the table, his voice as flat as a therapist’s. Justin Amash was part of the conservative in-crowd. Now he’s trying to figure out who his real friends are. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

He had been elected to the bench with labor support. Love’s Road Home 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

It’s not that we get elected because we’re different and special and interesting. Ilhan Omar meets Tan Dhesi: ‘We helped to break a glass ceiling' 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Sullenberger was initially hailed as a hero by aviation experts and elected officials, including President Bush. Remember the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’? 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

I assume he’ll continue to maintain his heavy workload even after he is eventually elected President. TCA Roundup: One Way or Another, You Are Stuck with Ryan Seacrest, America 2012-01-09T14:32:24Z

When we started working on the book, Trump was a joke and then about halfway through our work on the book, he was elected president of the United States. Why “Angels in America” endures: “Without gay people, you can’t tell the story of America” 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

They live in an enviable world in which the people have elected one of the smartest men in the country to lead it, instead of one of the dumbest. Review | The last thing America needs right now is more ‘West Wing’ 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Coffey is an elected official for the Comanche people and was, according to a Disney spokesperson, an unofficial but respected advisor on the film. Johnny Depp as Tonto: Is The Lone Ranger Racist? 2013-07-03T16:31:50Z

Mr. Brown and the other members of the Browns — his sisters Maxine and Bonnie — were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in March. Jim Ed Brown, Smooth Voice on ‘The Three Bells’ and Other Hits, Dies at 81 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

I kept telling people he will absolutely not get elected. Letterman Has No Love for ‘Damaged’ Trump 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

They have established a Republican Party in which donors, not elected officials, are in charge. ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

It’s 2008, Barack Obama has just been elected president, the economy is in the toilet, and Zoey’s college friends have been banished to a far-flung table in a drab ballroom at the Downtown Brooklyn Marriott. ‘Zoey’s Perfect Wedding’ Review: The Bride’s Big Disaster 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z

But critics say the resurrection and repackaging of Mussolini for the 21st century presents dangers in a time when right-wing governments are being elected around Europe, including in Italy. A New Book About Mussolini Is Provoking a Debate Over His Legacy 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

He left and, after a professional life in real estate and insurance, returned in 2005, elected by shareholders eager for a new chief executive who could connect the restaurant to a new generation. For 175 years, this is the restaurant that has epitomized New Orleans 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Hillary Clinton and elected leaders pledged to work with Donald Trump on Wednesday, the day after he won the presidency in what many political observers called an upset. Clinton and Obama urge support for President-elect Trump 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Forster among others, titled his speech "Rock `n' Roll," a title and concept he swears he thought of before learning that Dylan had been elected. Dylan inducted as honorary member of arts academy 2013-05-16T06:36:08Z

But since Donald Trump was elected president, the door has provided a number of former Fox personnel with entree into a government now infused with the cable channel’s fiery sensibility. ‘Working for one guy’: Bill Shine’s journey from Ailes enforcer to Trump producer 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

But the most intimate portrait came from Diane Blair, a woman Clinton befriended in Arkansas who was not a Nobel laureate or legal scholar and never held elected office. From press paranoia to affairs: A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Ron Paul filed full slates of delegates, totaling 54, that will be elected by Illinois voters on Tuesday. Romney, Santorum battle for primary votes 2012-03-18T19:08:00Z

At the end of 1989, six weeks after the Berlin Wall fell, my parents elected to abandon their lives, friends and possessions, and put our family at the mercy of the West. Relax, America, Syrian refugees won’t be hijacking your way of life 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

"I was very happy when he was elected, because this is a country with a fresh tradition of racism." Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia' 2013-07-23T16:41:00Z

MacLean goes on to point out that elected officials, such as Ted Cruz, are seemingly "smart" people with many degrees among them, and yet they continue to engage in such "absurdity." Bill Maher on why republicans are obsessed with pedophilia 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

At 44, Mr. Tan became the youngest and only Southeast Asian artist to be elected as a member-correspondent to the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institute of France. A Multifaceted Singaporean Painter Breaks Barriers 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

That's followed by Trump saying he was a gentlemen and his threatening to jail Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton if he's elected president. Twitter: 17M-plus tweets sent about the debate, most ever 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

When Sam is unexpectedly elected to lead the traditionally black residence hall on campus, it sets a match to an already volatile situation. With 'Dear White People,' Justin Simien wants to start conversations 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

And he launched a program to groom their best and brightest in his Youth Leadership Institute, which each year elected a Youth Mayor of the District. The tale of Marion Barry, king of D.C.

Bringing her back to speak for what she believes in, in a year when a real-live woman may be elected to the Oval Office, seems more relevant than ever. Is It Time for Wonder Woman to Hang Up Her Bathing Suit? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

He's only the third Black person in American history to receive the honor of being elected into the position of executive of state. Wes Moore will be Maryland's first Black governor. Here's what scares me about his election 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Keane is elected on a progressive platform to establish federal stewardship of the nation’s natural resources. Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Former President Bill Clinton — who was first elected 25 years ago this month — sat down with Conan O’Brien on Wednesday. Trevor Noah Is Amazed at How Fast Trump Cut Ed Gillespie Loose 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Executives for the  project said "Show Me a Hero" explores notions of home, race and community through the lives of elected officials, bureaucrats, activists and ordinary citizens in Yonkers, N.Y. HBO to launch miniseries from David Simon and Paul Haggis 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Donald Trump is elected president; the swing states turn from blue to red. Kristen Stewart: ‘It's not confusing if you’re bisexual. For me, it’s the opposite’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The Republican Party was the dog, abortion was the tail, and for decades the party’s elected officials had spun the party base into dizzying circles using the promise that overturning Roe was nearly within reach. Perspective | Republicans are digging themselves into a hole on abortion 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

In Canada, where senators are appointed instead of elected, a mandatory retirement age of 75 was implemented in 1965. This Senate is the oldest in American history. Should we do anything about it? 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

Oliver added that Trump might be the first ever troll to be elected president, and that he retweeted someone calling him the greatest troll on Twitter, saying it was a “great compliment”. John Oliver on Trump: 'An iPhone would be a more coherent president' 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only president to be elected four times. A president unlike any other 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

In 1992, he turned to politics, first getting elected to the state House of Representatives, and then joining the U.S. Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Its finalists in six categories — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, criticism and autobiography — are selected by an elected 24-member board, which also selects the winners. National Book Critics Circle announces finalists, but misses one of the biggest novels of 2016 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Left with a great whopping chunk of space after calling time on those endless Friends repeats, E4 has elected to fill it with lots of US comedy. Catch-up TV guide: from Nashville to The Jewel In The Crown 2013-03-02T06:00:05Z

First elected to Congress in 2000, Cantor had always breezed to victory in Virginia’s 7th District, a conservative stronghold that runs from Richmond to the Shenandoah Valley. Two years ago, Eric Cantor lost his House seat. Was it just in the nick of time? 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

And, in Britain and the US, we have elected macho, misogynistic, authoritarian leaders that set a tone. Rachel Louise Snyder: ‘Domestic abuse is as common as rain' 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

So what do kids really need to understand about how people get elected to public office in the United States? How to Get Your Kids Interested in the U.S. Election 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Not the clergy or the activists; not the police chiefs or the elected officials; not the newspaper columnists or the grieving parents. ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Moved by these efforts, the membership elected a very diverse board in 2019, with nearly half made up by authors of color. If the Romance Writers of America can implode over racism, no group is safe 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

“I believe raising hell and demanding accountability from our elected employees if Job One for every American. I am simply doing my job.” Ted Nugent loses second casino gig for ‘racist remarks’ 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

He writes that he is following the example of his father, who he says was successful despite never winning elected office. Mark Shriver explores what made 'Sarge' a good man 2012-06-16T19:46:04Z

Senate, where elected officials will decide the country's future by probing what happened in their distant past — at an alcohol-fueled suburban house party, the descriptions of which has awakened memories for a generation. ‘I remember thinking, ugh, this is bad’: Scenes from teenage party life in the ’80s 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Her father started as a welder and trade unionist, then was elected to Germany’s Parliament and was a founder of the Green Party. A ‘Homeland’ Spy Opens Up Onstage in ‘Returning to Reims’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

But political supporters like Harvey Milk, newly elected to the board of supervisors, stuck by the increasingly fanatical leader, out of fear, expedience, or stubborn loyalty. David Talbot on “Tavis Smiley” 2012-05-21T19:31:00Z

She received the Pioneer award by the Academy of Country Music in 1980 and also was elected to CMA's board of directors. Patti Page – singer of Tennessee Waltz – dies at 85 2013-01-02T22:58:10Z

Erdogan is running to become the first directly elected president of predominantly Muslim Turkey. Turkish women protest against deputy PM's no laughing comments 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Plastic Jesus and Ginger were also responsible for producing naked statues of Donald Trump that appeared in various U.S. cities in 2016, before he was elected U.S. president. Harvey Weinstein 'Casting Couch' statue unveiled ahead of Oscars 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Both were designed by Mr. Cuomo himself back in 2011 just after he was elected and feature the state seal and the message “I work for the people.” Cuomo, Fauci, Birx: The New Influencers 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

“I knew he was going to get elected.” Casting a Critical Eye, From the Slaughterhouse to the White House 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

"That is when the elected officials usually step into the process, sit down with these contractors and try to get some agreement as to people that they'll be hiring." $86M in Red Line improvements to 7 stations 2012-04-27T19:55:00Z

But the only way a woman is ever going to be elected to the top of anything is if we stop making insinuations about how she got there. Perspective | The unique harm we cause when we dissect a powerful woman’s love life 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

“We invested so much effort into street protest, we put everything into it. And what happens? Nothing. And Trump gets elected.” Pink hats, pins, petitions: What’s the point of these anti-Trump protests? 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

Warren, a former law professor, was elected to the Senate in 2012. Elizabeth Warren has a book coming in April. Its title? 'This Fight Is Our Fight' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

If everyone cared a lot about just one thing, it would alleviate the burden from others Caitlin Stasey She has also considered politics, but isn’t convinced she’d stand a chance at being elected. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

They look after the corporations who get them elected. UK riots: Big Brother isn't watching you 2011-08-11T17:18:00Z

She was elected to the Poetry Society of America, and befriended Louis Untermeyer and Teasdale. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Boehner, whom the House elected as speaker in 2011, is just the kind of blue-collar white male the party aspires to attract. The Divided Mind and Politics of John Boehner 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

But it’s a glimmer of hope, simply because it shows at least one statewide elected official tapping into the growing public realization that state and national government is fully corporate owned. First-world hunger: A one-year wait for that big lobby feast? 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

The family is asking U.S. elected officials to call on the Ukraine ministry to expedite these adoptions for the safety of the Ukrainian kids. American couple desperate to finish adopting Ukraine kids as war rages 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

Unlike many states, district attorneys in New York are elected positions, a potential conflict of interest. Harvey Weinstein: could #MeToo's highest profile case be crumbling? 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

I was eating cereal and I was just enjoying my life and it was a beautiful day and it was nice and sweet and then I found out Donald Trump was elected. Chelsea Handler opens up about long-buried grief: "I'm not fully fixed or complete" 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

It’s usually what you get from activists, intellectuals, lawyers, people who are not popularly elected. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z

I no longer wake up thinking about Donald Trump, or seething with anger at the people who elected him, including, apparently, Vladimir Putin. What happened when he took off his blinders about Trump 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

An ingeniously structured tutorial on the American-British led removal of Iran’s democratically elected leader in 1953, and the action’s disastrous ripple effects. Perspective | Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

The number of women elected officials is currently at an all-time high in the United States. "The View" jokes about testicle tanning and debates "likeability" when it comes to gender bias 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

“The pandemic has, if anything, made our effort to preserve the building that much more relevant,” said Tara Tamaribuchi, part of Friends of Inscape’s leadership team, elected by tenants. Seattle artists fundraise to buy former INS building, now home to many artist studios 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Lisa Miller, Drew Bradylyons 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Diamond has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. Jared Diamond: Here are the four ways America is ruining itself right now 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

Arts advocates and elected officials in California called on Thursday for additional government spending to avert what one organization leader called a “pending cultural depression” brought on by the pandemic. California Lost 175,000 ‘Creative Economy’ Jobs, Study Finds 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

The former two-term governor was elected Tuesday to replace Sen. Olympia Snowe, who didn't run because of what she calls political gridlock in Washington. DC journalist Woodward: independent tag helps King 2012-11-08T17:31:08Z

Later, Gosar sang “Liar Liar Pants on Fire” to Cohen, reminding us yet again that our elected officials often behave like overgrown kindergarteners. Michael Cohen and the pathological liars among us 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Even among other Black women mayors elected in Chicago, Atlanta and D.C., Who’s afraid of India Walton? 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

And two years later, he recalls, “you could be a total moron and get elected just by having an R next to your name.” The Divided Mind and Politics of John Boehner 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

If elected, Oz would become the first Muslim to serve in the U.S. Dr. Oz’s Trump-infused Senate run is coming down to the wire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Albanese government was elected on a platform of enhanced climate action and has since entrenched temperature targets in national legislation. A new trade deal ostensibly delivers cheaper foods — but does little to avert climate change 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Described as "the first modern dictator" and "one of the first modern leaders to rule by propaganda," Bonaparte went from being France's first elected president to its last emperor. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

He’s also a white man elected by a populace that is 79 percent black. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

When the album was complete, he faced yet another setback: Decca elected not to release it. After Four Decades, the Swamp-Pop Singer Tommy McLain Rises Again 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

When I was elected to the Boston City Council, everyone was wanting to give me awards. Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the isolating experience of being ‘the first,’ plus recently confronting an alopecia diagnosis 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s proposal to bar elected officials and top aides from lobbying state government for a measly year after leaving their jobs isn’t a panacea. First-world hunger: A one-year wait for that big lobby feast? 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

She added, “A lot of people in America right now are pretty much in shock, that we elected such a sexist future president.” Women strike back: Two New York exhibits showcase female artists resisting Donald Trump’s misogynist backlash 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

When USA elected last May to bring the series back for one final short season, the channel’s executives set about signing Mr. D’Onofrio and Ms. Erbe for farewells. Readying (or Not) for the End of ?Intent? 2011-04-29T23:37:24Z

From that day until a democratically elected government came into power in 1990, an estimated 3,000 Chilean citizens were disappeared and another 40,000 were imprisoned or tortured or both, according to Amnesty International. What the 9/11 museum could learn from two Latin American memorials 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

As for the meetings with Trump, scoring a major interview requires “a comfort level” on the part of the elected official, and that’s what he and Brzezinski were striving for. Joe Scarborough defends schmoozing with Trump as ‘the Washington way’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

The recruiting of Mr. Zadan and Mr. Meron was the first major step by Hawk Koch, who was elected president of the Academy earlier this month. ArtsBeat: Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to Produce Academy Awards Show 2012-08-23T18:07:51Z

My adversary and owner of the company, let’s call him Mr. Potter, elected not to respond to my incredulous e-mails. I went to D.C.’s small claims court and learned a big lesson — in something

Like Reitman, I suspect that he would have been a good president had he been elected. From Gary Hart to Donald Trump: “We have a system that favors the shameless” 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

About the same time, Parker was elected president of the city’s Gay Political Caucus. Houston’s Annise Parker, a gay mayor in a red state, ponders political future 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

In August, Prayuth was elected prime minister by a national assembly packed with serving or retired military officers. More Bangladeshis found in Thailand on human trafficking route 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Carter was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1969. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z

A newly elected Democratic president takes office with a plan to eliminate partisan gridlock in Congress, bolster the nation’s infrastructure and combat climate change. New Political Thrillers Head to the Brink of Disaster (and Dive In) 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Kennedys were considered “shanty Irish” and blackballed from the most prestigious clubs, even after Kennedy was elected president. Having a ball, in lavish fashion, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

In that spirit a leader of the Haitian struggle, Jean-Baptiste Belley, a former slave born in Senegal, was elected to the National Convention in Paris. Art Review: ‘Caribbean: Crossroads of the World’ Spans 3 Museums 2012-06-14T20:33:20Z

It put her back on the art-world radar, and she was elected to the Royal Academy the following year. Fighting Forgetting, With a Venice Biennale Win 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Lieu was elected president of his Democratic freshman class, but his first two years in Congress were comparatively quiet on social media. Ted Lieu is out-tweeting Trump, and it’s making him a political star 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Ms Hughes draws parallels between the protests of 2013, ruthlessly suppressed by the security forces of an elected Islamist government, and the uprising of 532AD, known as the Nika riots, from the Greek for “victory”. New histories of Istanbul 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Ethiopia is consumed in a civil war as its Tigray ethnic minority, formerly in control, moves against a democratically elected government that has been taking its own brutal measures. Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers’s ‘Red’ Duet, and 14 More New Songs 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Previously, new members could only be elected after the death of existing members. The American Academy of Arts and Letters Unveils Expanded Roster 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

The Dells were elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. Marvin Junior, Dells Singer, Dies at 77 2013-05-31T15:52:31Z

Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters After Obama was elected, Stewart had to change, not only with the political times, but also with what was happening in the world at large. Jon Stewart's Daily Show skewered the powerful and pushed US satire forward 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Marilyn Bergman became the first woman elected to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and later served as the chair and president. Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning composer, dies at age 93 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

Warner Bros. elected to split "The Hobbit" into three films, the second of which, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," opens in theaters Friday. Weinsteins sue Warner Bros. over 'Hobbit' profits 2013-12-11T23:54:35Z

Most of the Republicans elected in 1994 have since left Congress. How the Clinton-Gingrich years became ‘the good old days’: Republicans revisit 1994 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

But most have focused on the importance of calling one’s elected reps — a tactic that has left aspiring activists in the vote-deprived but heavily Democratic nation’s capital feeling a little useless. D.C. activists don’t have senators to call. So they found their own way to fight Trump. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

It was Doris who said – I thought of this, but it just seemed so wild – Wallace might really have gotten elected in 1968. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z

Under Cuba’s single-party system, the president is elected by the National Assembly, which is made up of candidates drawn from existing provincial assemblies or nominated by members of organizations allied to the Communist Party. Artist Asks Cubans to Imagine They Are Running for President 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

“We are at our best when we are together, even if it doesn’t seem like a perfect fit,” he says, ostensibly speaking to the voters who elected him but staring right at Marnie. 'Girls' Recap: Hannah Tries to Enter the Land of Grown-Ups 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

“The president is the elected official, and yet most of us look at her as a de facto member of the administration,” Gutin said. For first ladies, health issues can be a teachable moment — or a time to seek privacy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Yet we’ve just elected a president who regards illegal immigration as a national threat. Review: ‘Bellevue’ Celebrates a Hospital Not Crazy, but Compassionate 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

So here was a man, Robert Moses, who had never been elected to anything, but he had more power than a mayor and governor put together. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Haley, a Republican and tea party favorite, was elected last year. SC Gov. Nikki Haley has book coming out in January 2011-06-29T21:02:08Z

“If a bad actor can be elected president,” she declaims, “why not a good drag queen?” Review: In ‘Ms. Blakk for President,’ a Winning Losing Campaign 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

House went to right-wing Republicans and ideologues such as Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and Florida’s Rick Scott were elected governor. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z

But first we’ve got to “stop doing end zone dances. That’s going to get Trump elected. She is still the second most hated candidate in history, only behind Trump.” Michael Moore gets behind Hillary Clinton at surprise TrumpLand film screening 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

He was once elected to the state legislature in Vermont. William Jay Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 97 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

He rose through the ranks of Italy’s Democratic Party, a center-left coalition, and was elected secretary three years ago. Meet Matteo Renzi — the Justin Trudeau of Italy and the Obamas’ final state dinner honoree 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Senate, as well as serving as the Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce before being elected president of the Confederacy in 1861. Review | 20 years after ‘Cold Mountain,’ Charles Frazier is hot again 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The directors still had a fair amount of work to do after the eariler screening, but they were still struck by how much more positive the feedback was after Trump was elected. ‘Battle of the Sexes’ is about a tennis match — but it feels a lot like the 2016 election 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The department is stressing stricter curfew enforcement and creating alliances with elected officials, not-for-profits, neighborhood watches, businesses, clergy and schools, McCarthy said. City close to ending 2011 with fewer murders 2011-12-30T03:08:00Z

SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard, who was the union's first elected president and a strong proponent of the merger, led the talks. SAG-AFTRA and studios reach deal on new film and TV contract 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

We get elected because we speak to the heart of the challenges many of our constituents face. Ilhan Omar meets Tan Dhesi: ‘We helped to break a glass ceiling' 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. Malone wryly describes it as “self-medicating with money,” and for her it started the day after Donald Trump was elected to the presidency. Time to Make the Donates! 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Their elected officials need to begin talking the hard truths. Letters: Readers respond to magazine stories 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Another villain, in his view, was Earl Warren, the future chief justice of the United States, who, as California’s attorney general, was elected governor of the state in 1942 on a wave of anti-Japanese prejudice. Richard Reeves, Columnist and Author on Presidents, Dies at 83 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Rebecca Robertson, the Armory’s founding president and executive producer, said on Monday that it was working through elected officials and “continuing to apply pressure on all fronts,” yet the obstacle to approval remained unclear. A Theater Visionary ‘Nourished by the World’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Célia Sacramento, Salvador’s vice mayor, told me that Bahia’s nearly all-white power structure — from elected officials to the courts — is unresponsive to concerns about police violence in Salvador’s poor black communities. A passion for soccer helps unite one of the world’s most diverse countries 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Not merely that, but perpetuating conspiracy theories, questioning the patriotism of decorated veterans, and maligning elected officials who refuse to cater to Donald Trump’s whims. How Fox's dismayed "news" staff can learn from the Deadspin exodus 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

How he got the job: Renzi wasn’t elected to his current role. Meet Matteo Renzi — the Justin Trudeau of Italy and the Obamas’ final state dinner honoree 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

The biggest news was what the 54-person board elected not to alter: the one-week theatrical release required for an Oscar nomination. Oscars amend a few rules but not for Netflix 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

The victorious Allied commander in Europe in the second world war, Eisenhower represented a new era—the first Republican elected president since Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

It might not have surprised him, then, had he been alive in 1963, that George C. Wallace, the newly elected governor of Alabama, invoked freedom in nearly every passage of his inaugural address. When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

I visited in the fall of his third year, a few weeks before President Obama was first elected, when Anthony was renting an attic room from an older woman. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z

As his film career faded, he shifted to politics and was elected to Parliament in 1992 and served there until 1996. Bollywood superstar Rajesh Khanna dies 2012-07-18T11:24:10Z

Style has always plays a complicated part in the public imagination when it comes to our female elected officials, given the history of using dress as a way to undermine women. Why a Vogue Cover Created an Uproar Over Kamala Harris 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

After Bill de Blasio was elected as mayor, he supported settling the case, and the city did just that. "When They See Us" plaintiffs awarded additional $3.9M compensation from New York state 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

All of them swilling champagne in the college pub the night Obama got elected. My bumper sticker declaration 2012-07-14T00:00:00Z

I mean, Donald Trump is a former reality TV star, with no political experience, who was elected president, and his most high profile summit recently was with Kanye West. David Cross can guess “95%” what kind of David Cross fan you are just by looking at you 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

The wedding coordinator asked the distraught bride how she wanted to proceed – and she elected to start on schedule. Bride's 'late' parents 'furious' after she started wedding without them, Redditor claims 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

The problem with an elected judiciary, according to Oliver, is that when it comes to judging people, the right decision is sometimes unpopular and unpopular decisions and elections are uneasy bedfellows. Watch John Oliver Take Elected Judges To Court 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Meryl Streep has been elected as an honorary member of the elite American Academy of Arts and Letters. Streep elected to elite academy 2010-04-13T08:20:00Z

He began with his promise that, if elected, “I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.” Trump’s military nostalgia is influenced by the war movies of his youth 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

He introduced three special agents that he had dispatched to the residences of elected officials, starting with Kenan Thompson playing an agent who said he had conducted a search of Pence’s home. ‘S.N.L.’ Spoofs Merrick Garland’s Hunt for Classified Documents 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

Once Trump was elected, Moore didn’t let up. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

“It’s a little weird that celebrations happened on the same night Trump was elected. It’s like celebrating your baseball team winning on the deck of the sinking Titanic.” John Oliver on marijuana legalization: 'This is genuinely worth worrying about' 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Republican operative and strategic racist Lee Atwater planted the seeds from which our modern version of partisanship blossomed by the time Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, long before Fox came into existence. Fox News: 25 years of making everyone's lives progressively crappier 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The husband, Kevin, is a successful businessman who was elected mayor after the previous guy went unhinged. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Johnson was sworn in as president after JFK's assassination and was elected to a full term in 1964. Book: Kennedy scorned idea of Johnson as president 2011-09-09T11:11:09Z

“Comedians tell a joke and they get in trouble; Donald Trump says a terrible thing … and he gets elected” said Gervais. How Ricky Gervais Paved the Way For Donald Trump to be President 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

With Black support, a Republican was elected governor, and the local white militias took up arms to resist his rule. ‘Life of a Klansman’ Tells Ugly Truths About America, Past and Present 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

And the state’s elected officials do not seem overeager to address the problem, advocates say. 5 of the worst states to grow up poor 2014-02-21T12:50:00Z

In the late 1960s, a precocious student named Danny Scher was the elected social commissioner at Palo Alto High School in Northern California. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

But if he gets elected, I’m going to have to be a political guy all of a sudden.” Maxwell Is on His Own Timetable 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

"The Gates" in New York's Central Park was rejected by three city administrations before Christo's friend Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor. Christo: Arkansas River artwork won't hurt sheep 2011-05-18T16:50:13Z

Alice Oswald was elected Oxford professor of poetry in June this year, succeeding Simon Armitage and becoming the first woman in the role. 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

“Almost anyone I know is like, ‘Eminent-domain that sucker and move on,’ ” says one local elected official who was granted anonymity to speak bluntly. What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

In fact the number of established artists who elected to be involved can be surprising. Divine Excess on Avenue C 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

It's unusual in the extreme for an outsider like Edwards to be elected to the elite French club - but not without precedent. New guardian of French tongue is (gasp!) British 2013-04-04T13:50:15Z

Another leadership shake-up followed later that year, when the billionaire collector J. Tomilson Hill was appointed as board chairman, and the writer Claudia Rankine was elected its second ever Black female trustee. Director of the Guggenheim to Step Down 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

The new textbooks are in line with statewide standards adopted in 2010 by the Texas State Board of Education, a 15-member elected panel dominated by Republicans. Do new Texas textbooks whitewash slavery and segregation? 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Julius, a staunch conservative, objects in horror, insisting that a legally elected president can only be removed by legal means. Forget civility: On “The Good Fight,” “Luke Cage” and “Dietland,” resistance means go... 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

There was a time, Festa says, when newly elected politicians “packed up the family and the station wagon and moved into town. Whether you were Republican or Democrat, you lived in the same neighborhood.” In the hot D.C. dining scene, the allure of the power restaurant is waning 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Last month, Trump came within three minutes of his longest stretch without tweeting since he was elected. Analysis | Your A-to-Z guide to the media mayhem during President Trump’s first six months in office 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

In 2018, he got help from his former platoon lieutenant, Max Rose, who that fall was elected to represent New York’s 11th Congressional District. A veteran wanted to see his canine partner again. A congressman stepped in to help. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Garfield was the last U.S. president elected from there, though he did not campaign for it. 'Destiny of the Republic': The death of James A. Garfield 2011-11-17T00:26:04Z

The State Department demoted Thailand to its "Tier 3" category less than a month after the military seized power in a May coup, toppling the elected government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. More Bangladeshis found in Thailand on human trafficking route 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

She worked as a city official on behalf of two mayors; for one — Edward I. Koch — she was instrumental in helping get elected. Remembering Bess Myerson’s Turbulent Public Life 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Their volumes are often produced while they work full-time jobs as elected officials — and second full-time jobs running for reelection — which can make the reader wonder how much time they actually devoted to writing. Every candidate an author: The ceaseless boom in books by politicians 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

In her opinion, the same words aren’t used to describe males who are seeking elected office. Lena Dunham Says Don't Use These Words to Describe Hillary Clinton 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Producers elected to open "Hairspray" in the summer mainly to accommodate the schedule of its director, Jack O'Brien. Summer promises to be hot on Broadway with three big openings 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

The revision, which sought to do away with that provision, would affect between 160 and 200 elected officials around the state. 70 year-old introduces a bill to restrict 70 year-olds’ careers 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

But such commentary by elected members of parliament has made some Hungarians believe it is acceptable to express anti-Semitic thoughts, said Andras Kovacs, a sociology professor at the Central European University. Anti-Semitism taboo under threat in Hungary 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Trump is bad, not mad, but we the people are mad for having elected such a terribly flawed person to the most powerful position in the world. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Did he find that he did his best work when his medical wisdom was circumscribed by a bunch of elected strangers, the great majority of whom have no relevant expertise at all? Perspective | What Dr. Oz really said about abortion 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Just over four months later, Mr. Trump was elected president, and the stretch of Fifth Avenue near his Trump Tower residence became a heavily guarded and barricaded security zone. The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Q. What will the presidential limousine look like if AOC gets elected to the White House? Style Invitational Week 1461: It’s the eponymy, stupid 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Daniel Brodsky, a real estate developer, was elected chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday in a vote by the museum’s board. Met Museum Elects New Chairman 2011-05-10T20:27:27Z

Ms. Lee, who promotes women in contemporary art, is also a political activist who helps women run for elected office. Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston Gets Gift of Works by Women 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

She went on to be elected five times as a deputy to the National People's Congress. The Mount Everest mystery deepens: Was there an international cover-up of a dead climber's ascent? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

In the end, few C.R.C. representatives were elected among the more than 2,000 racially diverse delegates who headed to the Houston Convention Center. ‘Four Days That Changed the World’: Unintended Consequences of a Women’s Rights Conference 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

In 1994 he was the first Latin American writer to be elected to the Spanish Academy, where he took his seat in 1996. Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2010-10-07T11:48:00Z

Ford shot back his head and laughed before saying he "wasn't elected to be perfect." Toronto mayor laughs off Kimmel's idea to get help 2014-03-04T13:36:28Z

The season will focus on the lame duck period when the new female president is elected but not yet inaugurated. Good news for Clinton: new season of Homeland features a female president 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Rupert Murdoch himself claimed credit for getting the 45th president elected and was happy for his network to serve as the administration's propaganda arm. Fox News: 25 years of making everyone's lives progressively crappier 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Once he was elected, the media’s fascination turned to utter obsession. Perspective | Journalists, it’s time for a cold-turkey breakup with Trump 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

We built trust in what we wanted to do as filmmakers and why, and they recognized in the aftermath of Trump being elected that it was an undeniably historical moment that needed to be documented. "The everyday guy can fight and sometimes win": ACLU doc goes inside four David & Goliath cases 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

The moment produced one of the most famous exchanges of the presidential campaign and plunged Kelly into a long-running, if one-sided, feud with the man who was elected president Tuesday. Did Trump get a debate question in advance? Megyn Kelly says no, but questions linger. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Furthermore, assuming this clown – who, funnily enough, is a real and elected official – is serious with his fear mongering let me try to quell some of the crazy. Gays hate apple pie! 2013-04-01T19:13:00Z

Now, the married Ms. Peacock has stepped down from her post, and McAllister has found himself deploying the very same Christian vernacular that got him elected to atone for his transgression. Vance McAllister’s Christian failure 2014-04-09T18:48:00Z

When Trump was elected, she read her old manuscript again. Do we need another ‘Handmaid’s Tale’? 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

But only one candidate was treated like she might be elected, set policy and make appointments. Can the Media Recover From This Election? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Happy to see the sun, he elected to ride in an open-top car for his motorcade in Dallas that fateful afternoon. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

In the 2010 mid-term elections, the group succeeded in getting dozens of virulently conservative Republicans elected to congressional and state office, and analysts say it will likely be a force in the 2012 presidential election. US public radio chief steps down 2011-03-09T15:44:19Z

Maybe as someone more, I don’t know, elected. ‘Fyre’ and ‘Fyre Fraud’ Reviews: Behind the Scenes of a Music Festival Fiasco 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

How do you explain how Donald Trump was able to get elected? Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

“The Undefeated” is a staggering work of bombast and overstatement, the closest thing in the United States to the campaign biographies of the newly elected Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. | ?Game Change?: In ?Game Change? on HBO, Julianne Moore Plays Sarah Palin 2012-03-08T13:00:00Z

“As an elected official, who is also a woman and foreign-born, I personally find a comment about sending anyone back over their political opinions unacceptable.” Deli owner slammed for 'hateful' free food offer for 'send her back' special 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

It’s not just elected officials who are pilloried; female government servants of all kinds are suspect. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Prime Time’s Other Women in Power 2014-05-02T12:00:01Z

“Word got out really quick,” said Joshua Daniels, the clerk and auditor of Utah County, who was elected to the post in the spring. Utah Is a Destination Wedding Hot Spot, No Travel Required 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

This sketch gives insight into how people like Trump get elected president. The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

She often elected not to wear gloves, going against tradition to ensure she made direct contact with the people. The fashion legacy of Princess Diana is the subject of an exhibit in London 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Her next project might be her biggest part to date, playing Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, and the first woman to run for president, against Nixon, McGovern and George Wallace. Viola Davis: 'I stifled who I was to be seen as pretty. I lost years' 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

If you’re holding your breath for your elected representatives to stand up for airline passengers in the wake of the David Dao dragging incident, it’s time to exhale. This bill makes it unlawful to remove passengers from planes. But that’s not enough. 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

She was just elected to the state house in Washington. Why this Virginia man spent days making an Alzheimer’s ‘busy box’ for a stranger 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

When she was elected prom queen, the school principal accused her of stuffing the ballot box and suggested she and the white runner-up flip a coin to see who got to be queen. | Halle Berry 2012-10-18T20:21:12Z

The book might well be considered an interpretive miracle, one performed in fealty and hope for a future show of presidential grace, either from this president or, should she get elected, the next one. ‘The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America,’ by Michael Eric Dyson 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

At 28, he was elected to the New York State Senate; at 31, appointed assistant secretary of the Navy; at 38, nominated by the Democratic Party for the vice presidency. Franklin Roosevelt’s Story Is Worth Telling Again and Again 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Quite an achievement for a 24-year-old playwright who was in middle school when Mr. Obama was elected and is making his professional debut. Review: African-American Flight 1619 Now Boarding in ‘Ain’t No Mo’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Vidal ran for elected office twice: once for Congress in 1960, in upstate New York; once for the Senate in California in 1982. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z

But the ex-president who milked the office the most, according to Kaufman, wasn’t even elected: Gerald Ford. 30 ex-presidents and their post-presidential lives 2013-05-01T18:28:10Z

His teams won 1,274 games, and he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Perspective | With Harden, Durant and Irving, could Brooklyn net an NBA title? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

“I remember when Trump got elected, I thought ‘Oh, I’m going to have a lot more time on my hands,’ and it’s exactly the opposite,” he says. Ted Lieu is out-tweeting Trump, and it’s making him a political star 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

It was nothing short of a miracle — that was what South African schoolchildren were taught when Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994, in the country’s first fully democratic elections. An Empathetic Account of the Complexity After Apartheid 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

We were in such a place when Obama was elected. As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Zelenskyy nixed the usual motorcar parade to walk among the throng that elected him, taking selfies with people along the way. Politics & performance: Why Zelenskyy succeeds where others fail 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

In 2011, she was elected president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Marilyn Young, Historian Who Challenged U.S. Foreign Policy, Dies at 79 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

You have one protest movement embraced by mainstream American politics; people associated with it will get elected. Book Talk: Thomas Frank on the Great Recession 2012-01-03T16:29:46Z

Neil L. Rudenstine, the former president of Harvard University, was elected chairman of the board of the New York Public Library on Wednesday. ArtsBeat Blog: Former Harvard President to Head New York Public Library Board 2011-09-14T21:50:30Z

I teased in a column at the time that the most powerful place on earth was so swathed in earth tones, you would have thought Al Gore got elected. Mr. Smith Went to Washington … With Dimmers 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

But now, 46 years after first being elected to the state assembly, Nadler is playing the mensch card. Do Jewish New Yorkers care about identity politics? Jerry Nadler hopes so. 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

She wants the elected leadership of both countries to hear the voices of all. Ukrainian-born American woman says 'innocent people are dying' in Ukraine 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

“And,” Jones said, “I think that really struck a nerve with a Democratic electorate that understands that the status quo was unacceptable even before Donald Trump was elected.” How a middle school principal used the Ocasio-Cortez playbook against a 16-term incumbent 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

“Starting Points” offers two-minute answers by elected officials in eight topic areas, including education, the environment and the economy. Captain America is trying to … captain America 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Dean went on high alert when Trump was elected president and said his fears were confirmed. John Dean, Watergate’s golden boy, is back in the spotlight 50 years later 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Flake is the first elected official to cross this particular rhetorical Rubicon, and he seems to be imploring his colleagues to follow. Senator Flake, a Republican, Explains Why He Didn’t Vote for Trump 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

As if the whole point of freedom of the press, speech and expression weren't to keep murderous crazy, people, including freely elected murderous, crazy people like Adolf Hitler, from controlling the socio-political discourse. Killings at French journal Charlie Hebdo are assault on freedom 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

I felt elected politicians were these brief summers of electoral democracy, and I wanted to deal with the permafrost of power, the people who are always there. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

He did, first by getting elected to the House of Representatives, then the Senate and then the presidency in 1960. John F. Kennedy, an always youthful president, would be 100 this month 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

But I keep going back to the state of Russian politics in the late nineties, when Putin was elected. Masha and Keith Gessen on Writing About Russia 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

Some of these “actions” — volunteering, for example, or writing to an elected official — involve more actual action than others, like watching an educational video, signing a petition or sharing a link on a Facebook page. Enlisting millennials in the fight against global poverty, one electronic music festival at a time

Long, who died in 1974, noted that Phelps was subsequently elected a King County commissioner, and, as such, built a sawmill for the county. We celebrate the outdoors right here in town at Camp Long 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Hannity offers a fervent defense of the president, and he outlines all the reasons he believes that the country would suffer if Americans elected a Democratic president in 2020. The most 2020 books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

When he’s elected president, he leads the charge into the Civil War as a means of averting a systematic takeover of America by power-hungry vampire hordes. Exclusive First Look ? Official Trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012-02-13T15:35:39Z

"Normally, I don't go for political jokes - too many of them are getting elected," he once said. US library pokes fun at politics with Bob Hope 2010-06-11T23:31:00Z

“I think the people of the 9th circuit elected me to be accountable to them, and that’s what we intend to do,” said Charleston County Solicitor Scarlett Wilson in a press conference on Monday. South Carolina police officer Michael Slager indicted for murder of Walter Scott 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

And then elected him again in 2012, which you also missed? Perspective | Dear Brood X cicadas: Welcome back to our messed-up world. Here’s what you missed. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Six years later, Ronald Reagan was elected to the presidency. David L. Ulin's best books of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

For Charles, the people want their elected leaders “standing up/And making choices they themselves cannot.” Charles is king, Harry's in trouble and Kate's taking charge in Pasadena Playhouse's royal winner 'King Charles III' 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

They reconciled a decade later, and Mr. Davis obliged his friend by publishing his all-too-candid autobiography only after Senator Franken was elected. Tom Davis, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Comedy Writer, Dies at 59 2012-07-19T21:41:39Z

It makes you think she might be too good for whatever a candidate would have to do or say in this political climate to be elected president of anything. Oprah Earned This Museum Show. And It’s a Potent Spectacle. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

As people think about the presidency and how to approach their choice this fall, what qualities do you think whoever is elected must possess, the most important qualities for people to look for? Journalist John Dickerson: ‘The major problem is that we look to the president for too much’ 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

While teaching at Williams College in Massachusetts in the 1950s and early 1960s, Mr. Smith lived in Vermont, where he was elected to a two-year term in the state legislature. William Jay Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 97 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

There was a point where I was like, O.K., this guy’s been elected. Jon Stewart and Robert Smigel Craft a Comedy Benefit at a Polarized Moment 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

The easing or tightening of restrictions on women’s dress, Alinejad notes, is a barometer of Iranian politics; when a new, less reformist Majlis is elected, for instance, women reporters receive admonitions to improve their appearances. The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Tens of thousands of women and girls — and some men, too — were there to cheer on Hillary, believing she would be elected our first woman president the next day. We (still) can do it: Energized feminists are well positioned for future gains — if we do the work 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Yeah, presidents get elected every four years, but Hurricane Sandy was a once a never before kind of thing. Let the post-Sandy election gloating continue! 2012-11-09T20:35:00Z

Almost 20 years later, the defiant poet was elected to a seat on the union’s board. Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Celebrated Russian Poet, Dies 2010-06-01T20:19:00Z

We have heard before about two of the reasons behind Obama’s actions — the likelihood that Hillary Clinton would be elected and the likelihood that a defeated Donald Trump would claim he had been cheated. How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

When Oona King was first elected, a woman MP getting up to speak in the house was greeted with cries of "Melons". Women, Power and Politics; Through a Glass Darkly 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z

Stephen Colbert wasn’t sure he’d be able to do a comedy show just one day after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. Stephen Colbert Is Struggling to Accept Trump as President: 'This Sucks' 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

When Representative Elijah E. Cummings died in October 2019 at age 68, he became the first African American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Painter of Elijah Cummings Portrait Finds It’s a Career-Changer 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Earlier this month, Rankin was elected to become a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Rebus returns after sabbatical 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

When they — as multiple newly elected female representatives did this week — pose gratefully in front of a portrait of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress. Perspective | The revolutionary strategy hidden in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram feed 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

But things are better lately: This fall, Juliet was elected to homecoming court. Juliet and Jackie Evancho, Bonding as Targets in a Trump Media Frenzy 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Two of the most salient: Forge unity out of diversity and hold elected officials accountable. ‘Four Days That Changed the World’: Unintended Consequences of a Women’s Rights Conference 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Throughout the pandemic, elected officials have run afoul of many of these guidelines. The Weddings Boom Is Coming 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

It should be noted the song was released in April 1979, before the titular heroine was elected, though it became an indie hit a year later. Five songs about Margaret Thatcher 2013-04-08T13:36:00Z

Even Mr. Fetterman, recently elected to a third term, knew that the film, a harrowing revenge story, would not be an easy sell this season. The Carpetbagger: The Mayor Has a Request 2013-12-17T21:25:16Z

It is this reality of entrenched, powerful and moneyed interests that Democrats faced in 2008, when a newly elected Barack Obama resolved to make good on his party's half-century dream of providing universal coverage. Steven Brill's 'America's Bitter Pill' tackles healthcare mess 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Would we have elected these ailing men if their doctors had been honest? The secret history of America’s ailing presidents and the doctors who covered up for them 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

Where, when, why: Before beginning a full-time job, my nephew elected to teach English in Colombia for a year and I decided to visit him while he was there. Seeking out Colombia’s natural wonders 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

The groom, 28, is the parliamentarian for the newly elected New York State Senate. Ilyssa Meyer, Kenan Kurt 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Jefferson was elected president in 1800, in a hotly contested election that yielded a tied Electoral College vote between Jefferson and Aaron Burr, throwing the election to the House of Representatives. 'The Art of Power': Thomas Jefferson shapes the republic 2012-11-20T21:35:18Z

He pledged that if he were elected, his City Hall would use its authority to block new “communitarian” businesses from opening. Kebabs as a Political Statement in France 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

He was the self-styled Prince of Humbug who offered gullible patrons fake mermaids and 160-year-old women; at the same time, he was a temperance tub-thumper and, as an elected politician, an anti-slavery campaigner. Barnum – review 2013-07-25T17:08:57Z

Vance returned to his home state to live after Trump was elected in 2016, which was the first of two times the former president carried Ohio by 8 percentage points. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author JD Vance signals US Senate campaign 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

We can look at all of this and hope that our sanest elected officials will use their power to make life better for the whole realm. On the Iron Anniversary of "Game of Thrones," here's hoping Joe Biden doesn't go Ned Stark on us 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

"Auto-Tune the News: Bed Intruder Song" was elected by fans as Best Viral Original. Comedy Awards hail Letterman, Fey and 'South Park' 2011-03-27T03:20:08Z

The CIDs don't just appear out of thin air, though, but are approved by elected local officials, but it doesn't seem like many people care enough to organize any significant opposition to subsidizing gentrification. Coffee and community improvement districts: Unpacking the mystery of the $7 Starbucks macchiato 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Last week, Billboard ran an illuminating article about the process by which a band or individual musician gets elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Cheap Trick is one of the best rock bands ever — why aren’t they in the Hall of Fame? 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

“We planned this before Trump got elected, but it’s taken on a different resonance since,” said Margaret K. Hofer, the museum director. Norman Rockwell’s Vision of F.D.R.’s Four Freedoms 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The previous rules meant that each branch’s members elected only one-half of a nominating committee which, in turn, prepared a slate of candidates for the board. #OscarsBoardSoWhite? Academy overhauls 'confusing' election process 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Some movie moguls did threaten to move their studios to Florida if Sinclair was elected. ‘Mank’ and Politics: What Really Happened in 1934 California 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

The angry sheriff, for example, had been a unionized shingle maker himself before getting elected — but reportedly beat labor activists and stood by while his deputies did the same. In the key of blood: Concert marks centennial of Everett Massacre 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The film empathetically captures their experiences, from their chronic frustrations with the press and elected officials to the admirable ways they extend grace to each other. ‘Us Kids’ Review: They’re Not All Right 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Female elected officials in Washington joke that they need a wife, but what they really need is a Kasper. The TV Watch: ‘Borgen,’ a Danish Political Drama Series, on Link TV 2012-10-11T22:07:07Z

Many New York City elected officials are invited as well, as “guests of the museum” who do not pay to attend. A.O.C.’s Met Gala Dress Triggered Strong Reactions 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

He was elected to the House of Burgesses. An excerpt from William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake” excerpt 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Then a minority of voters elected as president a salesman who built his empire on fraud, spectacle and bankruptcy. American exceptionalism was our preexisting condition 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Voters don’t trust elected officials, but Hollywood doesn’t trust itself to do politicians justice; screenwriters keep piling operatic misdeeds onto characters whose strength lies in their huge capacity for pettiness. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z

I can’t even imagine what would happen if he were elected. Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she’s cool 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Three of the Republican candidates have never been elected to a state or national office. Campaign 2016: Understanding the presidential election 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Rod made his own millions brokering sales for collectors of commemorative plates, plates in honor of a pope’s being elected or the like. Jumbo: The MacArthur “Genius” Grants 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

Anger is high over the perceived corruption and aloofness of elected leaders in the country of 3.8 million people, which will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Oct. Vanessa Redgrave premiers documentary on Bosnia labor rights 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

He gives you a ringside seat for some of Kameny’s fiercest confrontations with security officers and elected officials at the Pentagon, the Civil Service Commission and the halls of Congress. The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

In 2012, “Obama barely won this district. This is not a slam-dunk Democratic district,” says Israel, first elected to the House in 2000. Rep. Steve Israel, finding the funny in Washington’s corridors of power 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Before she was named by Trump to her U.N. post, Haley was elected the first female governor of South Carolina and the second Indian American to hold that position. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley resigns 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

The problem is that among our elected officials no one is really talking about the future in America. Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

At New York University he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and while in his sophomore year there he took second place in the Witter Bynner intercollegiate poetry contest. Review: ‘Color,’ by Countee Cullen 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Press advocates see an increasing climate of anger, disrespect and hostility aimed at the media from the public and elected officials. Press advocates see Trump’s words behind physical attacks on journalists 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

It’s enough to say that, 152 years after its legal abolition, slavery still remains controversial in the United States with various persons — some of them holding elected office — defending the practice. The next HBO show from the “Game of Thrones” team will start a civil war 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

He was elected after embracing torture, which was once thought to be across the line, in the dark zone. Perspective | The president didn’t threaten just Iran’s culture sites. He threatened culture. 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

When she wasn’t trying to get out the vote, she was busy holding elected officials accountable — as in early August, when she helped plan a morning sit-in at Andrew Cuomo’s New York City office. Youth groups are thinking outside the box when voting 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

I elected to linger beside the small, overcrowded bar while other expectant patrons sat with their drinks on the patio. Choice Tables: Beyond Brisket and Burritos in Austin, Tex. 2013-12-03T21:04:26Z

The following decade, this man — Grover Cleveland — would be elected president. Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

If Mencken is elected president and Connor goes over as ambassador, he will delegate all responsibility. Alan Ruck Is Happy That Connor Roy Survived 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

When Ronald Reagan was elected, he was the first president, kind of came in on the fumes of Boomer energy. New "OK Boomer" book tries to heal generational rift between Millennials and Boomers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Casas held public readings of the play in Ann Arbor and Flint, inviting community leaders, activists, elected officials and others to help workshop the piece. Flint water crisis takes center stage in new play 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Ford threw his head back and laughed out loud before saying, "I wasn't elected to be perfect, Jimmy." Toronto Mayor Ford drops in on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show 2014-03-04T06:28:22Z

And for many trans adults and the parents of young trans students, the fear for their safety and wellbeing began to percolate just hours after Trump was elected. Parents of transgender students fear for children's safety under Trump 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Naji-Allah, who had been a photojournalist for the Washington Informer and Washington Times, joined her staff as her chief photographer months after she was elected, placing him among the longest-serving members of her administration. He was a D.C. graffiti artist and spent time in prison. Now, a photo he took hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

She received the Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music in 1980 and also was elected to CMA's board of directors. 'Tennessee Waltz' singer Patti Page dies at 85 2013-01-02T19:54:03Z

Clinton shouldn’t have to prove to us that she is cool enough to get elected. It’s hip to be square: Hillary Clinton isn’t cool — and she shouldn’t have to be 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

She and Mary Somerville were the first women elected as honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society. What have Ada Lovelace, Caroline Herschel, Rosalind Franklin and Mary Somerville got in common? 2013-03-07T11:00:00Z

Media President: I know senior national elected government officials who I can force my political bias and influence on fellow politicians, to vote my way. What Distinguishes a Neil Breen Film? Neil Breen. 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Before Trump got elected I wrote an article for the Guardian where I said that Donald Trump's election would be our reckoning. Eve Ensler on Donald Trump, rape culture and the "unreckoned history" of America 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

“They got elected acting as if Hillary Clinton ought to be in jail for using the wrong email.” Melania Trump used private email accounts while in the White House, says former colleague and friend 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z