A Scientist Is Arrested, and Academics Push Back
Gang Chen, an M.I.T. professor, faces federal charges of hiding affiliations with China. His colleagues, and M.I.T., are publicly challenging the allegations.
Gang Chen, a professor of mechanical engineering at M.I.T., was arrested on suspicion of hiding affiliations with Chinese government institutions in order to secure U.S. federal grants.Credit.M.I.T.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. It was Donald J. Trump’s last full week in office, so Andrew E. Lelling, the federal prosecutor in Boston, knew he had limited time left in his job. But there was one more important arrest to announce, one that had been in the works for more than a year and would burnish his record on a key initiative of his tenure.
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Trump’s right-wing rainbow coalition
Dec 16,2020 - Last updated at Dec 16,2020
BOSTON Although Donald Trump will pack his bags and leave the White House on January 20, he has presided over an authoritarian awakening among a large swath of the American population, one that will persist long after he is gone. As president, Trump not only deployed racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric, but actually baked it into his policies. Nonetheless, more than 74 million Americans voted for him in 2020.
Even more strikingly, exit polls suggest that Trump actually gained support from all of the demographic groups that he had maligned, insulted, and harmed, garnering more black, Hispanic, and Muslim votes than he did in 2016. Asian-Americans also pivoted to Trump, voting for him by a larger margin than they did for him in 2016. And Trump won around 55 per cent of white women in 2020. In two consecutive elections, the majority of white women chose a blatant misogynist