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Kamala Harris, faux border hawk

Kamala Harris desperately needs to deflect responsibility for the ongoing debacle at the border, and she thinks she knows just how to do it. Whenever addressing the issue, she’s sure to accuse Donald Trump of killing the Senate border bill that, in her account, would have locked down the ...

The vice presidential debate may matter

Vice presidential debates don’t matter, we have been assured over and over. No one votes for vice president or a presidential nominee for her or his choice of running mate. You can go back and look at snap polls taken after past vice presidential debates and find basically zero correlation ...

Vance couldn’t even defend the democracy

He could summon all the oily debate tactics needed to evade questions and renovate lies. But one thing that J.D. Vance couldn’t find in his toolbox was the courage to say something that is totally obvious: Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Until that point in the vice presidential ...

Bottom line on the border: It’s already orderly

There were fewer arrests at the Southern border in July than in the last month of the Trump presidency. Shelters have seen a massive drop in migrants. And Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is having a hard time finding enough recent arrivals to fill buses headed north. The reason for this development ...

The cost of duty, and why we should pay it

It’s hardly even fall, but already I’m looking for airline tickets for Thanksgiving, my jaw agape in horror at the prices. It’s never been cheap to travel during the holidays, so I can’t tell if I’m just getting crotchetier about the cost or if flying is truly getting that much more ...