Finally, mercifully, the country’s astronomical drug overdose rate appears to be flattening out — even declining. This spring, national data began to show that overdose death rates were, after more than three decades of very steady increases, no lon
As Donald Trump turns to obscenity, racial disparagement and sexual innuendo to blunt Kamala Harris’s surge in the polls, he faces a daunting obstacle: the intense hostility among Democrats to all things Republican. How so? Harris has consolidated s
When Kamala Harris sat down for just the second major television interview of her campaign last week with the Philadelphia ABC affiliate, the anchor asked her to outline “one or two specific things” she would do to fulfill her pledge of “bringing do
The battle to win over the remaining undecided voters in the 2024 presidential election looks as though it’s coming down to which campaign can successfully define Kamala Harris; look no further than the ads you see on TV in battleground states.20bet
The mystery of 2024: How is it possible that Donald Trump has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about him? Why hasn’t a decisive majority risen to deny a second term to a man in line to be judged the wors
Bret Stephens: Gail, why isn’t Kamala Harris running away with the election? The race in the battleground states is basically a tie, despite Harris spending three times as much money as Donald Trump and having a much bigger ground game — and despite
If the filibuster did not existwjpeso, it is hard to believe that anyone would invent it. As it stands, the Senate rule allowing unlimited debate is still in effect. But there are carve-outs — exceptions that allow the Senate to pass a bill or take
Not all the policy questions left unanswered by Kamala Harris’s studiously vague presidential campaign are created equal. It is not especially urgent, for instance, to know how Harris’s views of the ideal health care system have evolved since the gr
Nearly 90 years ago, in a case involving prosecutorial misconduct, the Supreme Court laid down its view of a prosecutor’s dutybk8, one that has been widely repeated in court decisions ever since. The prosecution’s interest in a criminal prosecution,
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