Daily Comment
Opinions, arguments, and reflections on the news.
Jimmy Carter, Green-Energy Visionary
As President, he told us that we needed to shift to solar power. We should have listened to him then.
Remembering a Visit to Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia
The late President’s priorities were remarkably prescient, and his personal qualities offered a dismaying contrast to so much of the present state of American politics.
Kamala Harris’s Youth-Vote Turnaround
For most of the year, young people seemed to be flocking to the Republican Party. Was Trump doing something right, or was Biden doing something very, very wrong?
Nancy Pelosi’s Art of Power
The former Speaker discusses how she hastened Joe Biden’s decision to drop out, her new memoir, and not getting “doggy doo-doo on your shoe.”
What Tim Walz Brings to Kamala Harris’s Campaign to Beat Donald Trump
The Minnesota governor with a progressive agenda becomes the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee after capturing the Zeitgeist with a single word.
J. D. Vance and the Right’s Call to Have More Babies
Pronatalism has much in common with some of Vance’s views: it typically combines concerns about falling birth rates with anti-immigration and anti-feminist ideas.
Venezuela’s Moment of Reckoning
Nicolás Maduro’s claim to have won the Presidential election has further inflamed the nation’s contest between democracy and authoritarianism.
Does Kamala Harris Need a Latino Campaign?
Republicans have offered a different approach—speaking to Latinos the same way they do to everyone else.
It’s Too Early to Give Up on Homelessness in America
The country’s most powerful deep-blue governor, Gavin Newsom, ordered encampments to be dismantled. But lasting solutions are still needed.
The Real Story of Kamala Harris’s Record on Immigration
Republicans have attacked the Vice-President as the Biden Administration’s “border czar,” but her remit was always to address the root causes farther south.