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Granderson: How will Harris pay for policies?

August 17, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign plans to shift its economic message from breadth to depth, articulating some of the policies we could expect from a Harris administration. Now it’s time to explain some details such as how the administration would get her plans through Congress and how her policies would… Read story

Estrich: Trump mentally unfit to lead

August 16, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Donald Trump is clearly flailing. He has reportedly taken to complaining about his campaign, which candidates tend to do when they are looking for someone to blame. He is, in the words of The Washington Post, “steaming” at what has happened to him. This is what he posted on Truth… Read story

Paz: ‘Trump is weird’ will only get Harris so far

August 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns

In recent weeks, national Democrats and surrogates for Vice President Kamala Harris have settled on a pretty simple strategy: calling former President Donald Trump, his running mate Sen. JD Vance, and MAGA-aligned Republicans “weird.” One of its original purveyors, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, used it again during his first appearance… Read story

Camden: More of the same for Spaceguy

August 14, 2024, 6:01am Columns

As is the case with most primaries, last week’s election created far more losers than winners. Read story

Schram: Pinballing through the presidency

August 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns

In the gilded, overwhelmingly ornate main room of his Mar-a-Lago resort and estate, former President Donald Trump stood in front of four huge American flags Thursday and pinballed through a press conference unlike anything ever seen in presidential campaigning. Read story

Granderson: Top Republicans know better than to back Trump

August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns

When it comes to disaster movies, my biggest pet peeve is the sex scene. As soon as a Diane Warren song starts playing in the background, the male and female leads will lock eyes and suddenly decide they have time to cuddle. “Saving the planet” loses all sense of urgency. Read story

Feldman: Rights dying by a thousand cuts

August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns

If you want to understand what’s happened to voting rights in the U.S. over the past decade, just take a look at a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Read story

Other Papers Say: Cooperate for children’s safety

August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns

The experience of foster care can be deeply damaging to children. But so is leaving them with neglectful parents navigating addiction or struggling to maintain stable housing. Striking the balance that best promotes child safety is a fraught and complicated undertaking. Current outcomes show Washington is a long way from… Read story

Peregrine: Biden, Nixon and 2 turbulent summers

August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns

So you think it’s been a turbulent political summer, with President Joe Biden’s surprise decision not to run for reelection? Try 50 summers ago, with President Richard Nixon’s equally surprising decision to resign from office. Read story

McNamara: U.S. teachers in spotlight

August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns

As the daughter of a gun-owning, gun-control-supporting veteran and progressive social studies teacher whose calm, exasperatingly informed, “bulls—”-calling rebuttal of political speeches predated the recent media trend of “live fact-checking” by several decades, I find myself personally thrilled by Kamala Harris’ decision to select Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her… Read story