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Chicago — The poet Carl Sandburg’s “City of the Broad Shoulders” lifted Kamala Harris up, making the vice president the frontrunner in the race for president. Harris hit all her notes, personal and political, in a near-perfect speech to introduce herself to the American public. She ...
If Donald Trump was going to get rid of the “weird” label that Democrats had effectively pasted on him in the days leading up to the Democratic National Convention, the endorsement from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that Trump procured by promising Kennedy a job if he won did not advance the ...
How is it possible that the Teamsters still haven’t made an official presidential endorsement? Really, are they going to choose Donald Trump, who conned them into believing he’d help save their pensions? Or Kamala Harris, whose boss, Joe Biden, actually did — and to the tune of $36 ...
I hate Jonathan Franzen. I know, I know, he’s a Great Author(TM). Super talented, apparently. But I don’t hate him on literary grounds. My hatred also has nothing to do with professional jealousy (I don’t think. Though if that’s an underlying reason, I’m fine with that, too). ...
I’m feeling optimistic about Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I want to put this extraordinary moment into context. Like many of you, I’ve worked my heart out during elections. (My first one was in 1968, when I went “clean for Gene” — Eugene McCarthy — shaved off my beard and ...
President Ronald Reagan once said, “If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, as Jefferson cautioned, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.” I fear that the young pro-Palestinian Arab, anti-Israel protesters erecting tents on college campuses, blocking ...