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The Unnerving Changeability of JD Vance

Opinion by Michelle Goldberg on July 26, 2024. In “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2016 memoir that made JD Vance a celebrity, he described constantly remaking his childhood self to fit the rotating cast of father figures his unsound mother brought into their lives. “With Steve, a midlife-crisis sufferer with an earring...

The Kamala Harris Report Card

Opinion by David Brooks on July 25, 2024. At the beginning of 2019, I wrote a column enthusiastically arguing that Kamala Harris was the Democratic Party’s strongest candidate to take on Donald Trump. My core argument was pretty simple: If Democrats hoped to defeat him, they needed the toughest gladiator...

Kamala Harris: A Baptist With a Jewish Husband and a Faith That Traces Back to MLK and Gandhi

WASHINGTON — Black clergy who know Vice President Kamala Harris, now the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, marvel at the fusion of traditions and teachings that have molded her religious faith and social justice values. Harris' Faith Inspired by MLK, Gandhi, and the Black Church A Baptist married to...

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