Katherine Miller

Oct 30, 2024 | nytimes.com | Katherine Miller |Damon Winter

Kamala Harris stood before the warmly lit White House on Tuesday night, American flags behind her and in the hands of the estimated 75,000 people in the crowd before her. She talked about America as the greatest idea humanity ever created. "Here's what I promise you," she said. "I will always listen to you even if you don't vote for me. I will always tell you the truth even if it is difficult to hear. I will work every day to build consensus and reach compromise to get things done.

Oct 30, 2024 | nytimes.com | Katherine Miller

Polling suggests that as we go into Election Day, the Republicans' advantage on the economy is substantially smaller than it was a few months ago. But if you look at the numbers, what's astonishing is that the advantage doesn't go the other way. Wednesday's data release on gross domestic product for the third quarter, the last one before the election, paints a portrait of remarkable economic success.

Oct 25, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Hiruni S. Jayasekera |Farhana Afrin Mohona |Katherine Miller |Michael Marty

AbstractLipids surrounding membrane proteins interact with different sites on the protein at varying specificities, ranging from highly specific to weak interactions. These interactions can modulate the structure, function, and stability of membrane proteins. Thus, to better understand membrane protein structure and function, it is important to identify the locations of lipid binding and the relative specificities of lipid binding at these sites.

Oct 22, 2024 | english.aawsat.com | Katherine Miller |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel |Ross Douthat

If Donald Trump wins, the people who voted for him would have a range of reasons for putting him in office. There are a lot of potential Trump voters who don’t like him that much or who really like only parts of his personality or platform and tolerate the rest. There are probably also those who have their own understanding of what they’re getting, possibly rooted in the way they felt about the Trump administration or feel about the Biden one.

Oct 22, 2024 | english.aawsat.com | Jamelle Bouie |Katherine Miller |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel

According to Tim Sheehy, the Republican nominee for the US Senate in Montana, “Young people, listen up, they’ve been indoctrinated for too long. We don’t even try to talk to them anymore,” Sheehy said at an event last year. This idea that young voters have been indoctrinated — or even brainwashed — to reject Republicans and conservative ideas has significant purchase on the political right.