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It’s great that younger voters support Harris, but 2024 could be the year the gerontocracy votes itself out of office—and keeps a decrepit extremist away from the White House.

He caught hell at the time for mismanaging Covid. But now we indulge Trump’s fantasy that his presidency ended in February 2020.

If Walt Whitman helped take American poetry to new heights, the former president’s free-verse stylings have brought it back down to earth.

Kamala Harris’s worst campaign surrogate has worn out his welcome.

For Trump, it’s “America First”—unless it conflicts with the interests of his plutocrat allies.

A Times/Siena poll shows working-class voters are finally moving in the Democrat’s direction. She may need them to win in November.

Trump is favored by people who didn’t go to the polls in 2020. Democrats should court them.

Compared to Trump and his running mate, this should be a much easier lift for the vice president. But I fear she won't think so.

Obviously it’s good that the president passed the torch to Harris. I just wish she’d stop differentiating her economic policies from his.

Transaction fees on debit card purchases are out of control. The Biden administration’s antitrust cops are on the case.

The paper may not have a great history of covering the federal workforce, but their timely series on the dedicated professionals threatened by the former president is a boon to democracy.

Why has Sean O’Brien bailed on making a presidential endorsement? A review of his reasons to not support Kamala Harris suggests that he’s deeply confused.

If you want unscrupulous businesses to amass more power, he’s your guy.

The former president’s tax plan is a shell game that replaces real labor power with meager rewards.

The truth is, we already sort of have one: It’s called the national debt.

Harris dodged the question out of fear it would bind her too tightly to Biden. But there’s no debating what the answer is.

A modest effort to enforce capital requirements on financial institutions has fallen by the wayside. We will all pay for this surrender in the next too-big-to-fail bailout.

Republicans threatening yet another government shutdown are sending a message to America: We can govern, or you can vote. Take your pick.

If you do the math on the GOP ticket’s tax plans, it doesn’t add up to anything good.

The party finally has the upper hand on taxes: The rich will pay more—unless the GOP wins the White House and both houses of Congress.