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Wednesday
A country for old men
How can we escape the American gerontocracy?
The stock market isn’t the success story Trump thinks it is
A surging Nasdaq and Dow doesn’t indicate a healthy economy
The Democrats have learned nothing in four years
Democrats assassinate JFK’s memory
Tuesday
Bill Clinton: from boomer to Zoomer
Tuesday’s DNC proceedings had the feel of a breakout from a retirement home bingo session
In many ways, Andrew Cuomo is just a metaphor
In his DNC address, the New York governor was more interested in what sounds right than what is right
Michelle Obama goes low on the first night of the virtual DNC
The former First Lady claimed she ‘hates’ politics but her speech proved she’s good at it
Monday
Will Biden get away with his bad record on race?
Perhaps voters just don’t buy that someone who served as vice president to the first black president could be racist
James Carville’s advice to Joe Biden
It’s the voters, stupid
What does Kamala Harris really believe?
Is being a Black Baptist more important than Black Lives Matter?
Saturday
Karlie Kloss, renaissance woman
Jared’s sister-in-law is leading a takeover of W magazine
Kamala Obama
Who really is the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee?
Friday
Rise and rise of the San Francisco Democrat
Don’t believe the hype. Kamala Harris is radical and rude
Kamala Harris’s troubling record as California’s attorney general
The new Democratic vice presidential nominee is accused of using justice as a political weapon
Thursday
Poll: half of Americans support Trump bypassing Congress for COVID relief
Trump’s executive order has 51 percent support
Will Trump win Minnesota?
An Emerson poll has him within the margin of error
Wednesday
Does Seattle deserve better than Carmen Best?
The city ’ s first black police chief wa s effectively hounded out of office by gangs of predominantly white protesters
Cuomo’s nursing home death blame game
Only the right is willing to hold him to account
Harris is good news/bad news for the Trump campaign
‘Sleepy Joe’ hasn’t worked as an attack line. ‘Phony Kamala’ might
Tuesday
Will it be Biden-Harris or Harris-Biden?
The rich will do well in Biden-Harris America, the middle class will be in life support and the violent will be unhampered
President Kamala, mistress of puppets?
Not so fast
Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate
Cop a load of this
Trump’s Art of the Executive Order
This President was supposed to be better, or at least different
Monday
The antifa aesthetic
No wonder the Washington Post gave antifa a makeover
Should Kamala Harris pay reparations?
A bad idea whose time has come
Joe Biden should debate
He’ll probably win
There is no ‘do no harm’ VP pick
Kamala Harris or Susan Rice would do little to energize Biden’s campaign
Sunday
The Greens turn red
Howie Hawkins ’s nomination has moved his party further towards the fringe
Saturday
Why are black Americans likelier to die of COVID than Latinos?
Latino poverty is no less than black poverty and Latino access to quality healthcare is no better than for black Americans
Friday
What’s on the agenda?
Trump unveils manufacturing promises for a second term
Thursday
Hidin’ Biden’s basement convention
The former VP oscillates between alarming porousness and inexplicable hostility
Wednesday
The thinning of the Spanish monarchy
A republican Spain would very likely be a Spain that falls apart, an example not irrelevant to the United Kingdom
Who does Trump want?
The President wants a Biden VP candidate who convinces diehard ideologues to stay home
Trump’s Burkean moment
American conservatives have endlessly lauded the beauty of capitalism to a generation who have no chance of buying their own home