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We’re living in a second Gilded Age of extreme inequality. Kamala Harris’s campaign should strike a more populist note

The longtime senator tells Capital & Main that backing Medicare expansion, higher taxes on the wealthy and a hike in the minimum wage is a winning agenda.

I appreciate the replies from Orin, Will, and Sam. We have very different conceptions on what role a scholar should play and what role a judge should play. My writings in this area are both retrospective and prospective. I look backwards to see what qualifications a judge had at the…

In normal times, Harris would be a dud. But these aren’t normal times.

Can the candidate turn crowd-pleasing nostrums into a program that will do more good than harm?

Donald Trump’s working hours were shortest for any president since FDR. Joe Biden’s presidential office hours are third-shortest since 1933.

…A Hazy Shade of Winter… You know the drill. Headline first. Then a march through the methodology. If you want single-serving factoids, go to, well, pretty much anywhere else on the Internet. Donald Trump arrives in the office almost an hour later than any President since 1933. His average arrival…

David Beito discusses his new book The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.

Even President Joe Biden’s admirers are worrying about polls showing a close 2024 election, with one party insider fearing a “five-alarm fire.”