Haley Sweetland Edwards

Haley Sweetland Edwards is the Nation Editor at TIME.

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Why We Don't Know Who's Funding the Republican Convention

When the Republican National Convention begins in Cleveland on Monday, it will be the first time in four decades that a major political party’s nominating convention is underwritten nearly exclusively with private cash—funneled in from...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards / Cleveland and Chris Wilson

When Can Police Use a 'Bomb Robot' to Kill a Suspect?

Late Thursday night, Dallas police attached an explosive device to what’s known as a “bomb-disposal robot,” rolled it into an area where one of the suspected shooters was holed up, and detonated the bomb, killing...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Hillary Clinton's New College Tuition Plan

When Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders first rolled out his plan offering free college tuition to all American students, his political adversary, Hillary Clinton, threw some wonky shade. It would cost way too much, she told...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

This Might Be Another Reason Voters Are Angry

A source of anger in an election year

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Trump Declines to Clarify Immigration Positions

"You figure it out!"

By Haley Sweetland Edwards and Zeke J Miller

Why Trump Might Be Wrong About the Economy

Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump doubled down on a larger theme of his presidential campaign in a speech Wednesday, arguing that the American economy, once an engine of prosperity, is in precipitous decline.“The real wages...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Here's How Much It Costs To Be A Stay-At-Home Parent

Or a caretaker of any sort

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Why It Matters Who Hacked the Democratic National Committee

A cyber security firm hired by the Democratic National Committee announced on Monday that two groups affiliated with Russian intelligence were responsible for infiltrating the Democrats’ network and stealing a ream of confidential election-related information.Two...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Foreign Policy Experts Condemn Donald Trump's Remarks on ISIS Support

In the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting, Donald Trump seemed to suggest that President Obama was somehow sympathetic to the suspected gunman, telling Fox News that there’s “something else going on” since his actions...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Orlando Shooting May Revive Effort to Keep Guns From Suspected Terrorists

A bill that would prevent terrorist suspects, as identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from legally purchasing firearms has languished in the House for more than three years but is now receiving renewed media...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Trump Attack on Judge's Ethnicity Brings Back Sordid History

Similar attempts to disqualify minority judges have long been dismissed

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

A New Generation of Bank Robbers Infiltrates Global Finance

It feels like magic: A few strokes on a smartphone and your life savings appears on a glass screen, a collection of pixels in your palm. A few more clicks and the balance ticks up...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Why Can't Drug Costs be Reined In?

When the price of the blood-pressure drug Nitropress leaped from $215 to $881 last year, an increase of 300%, it triggered public outrage

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Hacks for Ransom Go Mainstream

Ransomware attacks on businesses and individuals have risen dramatically in recent years

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

How Tax Day Might Boost the Economy

The answer depends on what we do with the checks

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

How You Could Get Hit With a Surprise Medical Bill

One in three American adults has faced them

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

Trump Agrees With Democrats on High-Speed Trains

In a freewheeling speech Thursday afternoon, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump stumbled into a riff about how great trains are. It’s sad, he said, that the American rail system is so dilapidated while China’s is now...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

The Hidden Cost of ‘Surprise’ Medical Bills

You only think you’re covered

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

How the 2 Apple Encryption Cases Are Different

A New York district judge’s ruling Monday that the government can’t force Apple to unlock a drug dealer’s iPhone won’t necessarily affect the outcome of another, highly-publicized California case over whether the government can force...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

How Cheap Gas Might Hurt Ted Cruz on Super Tuesday

Ted Cruz has proved popular with the people running his home state’s oil and gas companies. But if he runs into trouble on Tuesday, it’ll be because of the people they employ.No 2016 presidential candidate...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards and Philip Elliott
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