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Elections III (From 1-13-24)

  1. Elections.  “Both Sides Threaten Democracy.”  By Tom McClintock.  [The Jan. 6 riot was a national disgrace, but Biden should push his own party to respect norms.]   1-13-24
  2. Elections.  “The Voters Finally Get Their Say.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [Each party seems set to make a big mistake, but a Trump-Biden rematch isn’t yet inevitable.]   1-13-24
  3. Elections. “In Iowa, It’s a Trump Ball.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [As the campaign begins, the big story is the 45th president’s commanding lead.]   1-16-24
  4. Elections.  “New York’s voter Suppression.”  By Howard Husock. [Closed primaries and early registration deadlines make it hard to cast a ballot that counts.]   1-16-24
  5. Elections.  “The Future is Unpredictable Even When It’s Certain.”  By Gerard Baker.  [You don’t know in advance what your parent’s death will be like.  The same is true of this year’s election.]   1-16-24
  6. Elections.  “Biden Took New Hampshire for ‘Granite.’”  By John Fund.  [Like LBJ in 1968, he didn’t bother to get on the ballot.  Will next week’s primary be an unpleasant surprise?]   1-16-24
  7. Elections.  “Biden Wins the GOP Iowa Caucus.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [Now he has to beat the rival he helped pick.  Invoking Hitler isn’t helping.]   1-17-24
  8. Elections.  “Trump Takes Iowa, and the GOP Is His.”  By Wm. A. Galston.  [Those who thought it was still Reagan’s party were proved wrong Monday night.]   1-17-24
  9. Elections.  “Iowa Gives Trump II a Boost.”  [New Hampshire is the best chance to make it a real GOP race.]   1-17-24
  10. Elections.  “A Disqualified Trump Could Still Appear on the Ballot.”  By Jason L. Riley.  [The Supreme Court could split the difference, leaving it up to Congress to decide his fate if he wins election.]  1-17-24
  11. Elections.  “Trump Ekes Out a Commanding Win in Iowa.”  By Karl Rove.  [He won a majority against a divided opposition – but came close to falling short.]   1-18-24
  12. Elections.  “The them-vs.-Us Election.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Not all rich people are ‘elite’ – and that helps explain America’s cultural divide.]  1-19-24
  13. Elections.  “Adam Schiff’ Telltale 2024 Agenda.”  [His radical plans should focus Republicans on electable candidates.]   1-19-24
  14. Elections.  “Haley Could Win New Hampshire.  Then What?”  By Barton Swaim.  [Trump attacks her viciously every day, but she’s been strangely tepid in going back at him.]   1-19-24
  15. Elections.  “Cheer Up, Republicans – at Least you’re Not the Tories.”  By Joseph C. Sternberg.  [Labour was so bad that the Conservatives didn’t have to govern well.  But now the opposition is revived.]   1-19-24
  16. Elections. “Trump Isn’t Serio9us About the Debt.”  [He joins Democrats in saying that any reform to Social Security would toss granny off a cliff.]   1-20-24
  17. Elections.  “This Isn’t Only a Trump Election.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [The non-elite feel more alienated than ever, even invaded, and they’ll be looking for better options.]  1-20-24
  18. Elections.  “The 2024 Republican Choice.”  [a second, chaotic Trump term, or a new conservative beginning?]   1-22-24
  19. Elections.   “Ron DeSantis Concedes Defeat.”  [The Florida Governor’s strategy failed to peel off Trump voters.’   1-22-24
  20. Elections.  “Dean Phillips Says the Quiet Part.”  By Barton Swaim.  [Can he do well enough in New Hampshire to cause Democrats to rethink another Biden candidacy?]   1-22-24
  21. Elections.  “If Brian Kemp Beat Trump, Maybe Nikki Haley Can.”   By Henry Olsen.  [Encourage more moderates and independents to vote by taking him on directly.]   1-23-24
  22. Elections.  ‘It’s All Over but the General Election.”  By Wm A. Galston.   [Trump and Biden both face difficulties in the match-up that is virtually certain.]   1-24-24
  23. Elections.  “Marc Elias Targets Wisconsin.”  [The election law hit man tries to change the state’s Congressional map.]   1-24-24
  24. Elections.  “Trump Should Debate Haley.”  By Daniel Henninger.  [Too many important voters on’t know what the former president stands for.]   1-25-24
  25. Elections.  “Trump Throws a New Hampshire Tantrum.”  By Karl Rove.  [After his victory he should be trying to unify the GOP.  But he’s spreading ill will.]   1-25-24
  26. Elections.  “Haley Revealed Trump’s Weaknesses. “  [In New Hampshire, she earned the chance to fight in South Carolina.]   1-25-24
  27. Elections.  “Nikki Haley Needs a Rationale.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Republican voters are open to voting for someone other than Trump – but why her?]   1-26-24
  28. Elections.  “From ‘Never Trump’ to ‘Encore.’”  By J.W. Verret.   [in 2019 I wanted him impeached.  Now I’ve become convinced that Biden is worse.]   1-26-24
  29. Elections.  “A GOP Border Reckoning.”  [We’ll soon know if the party really wants to solve the problem.]  1-26-24
  30. Elections.  “The Trump-MAGA Purge.”  [Anyone who donates to Haley is banned from his party, he says.]    1-26-24
  31. Elections. “Nikki Haley Should Go for Broke.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [Of course it’s too early to drop out.  A veteran GOP speechwriter has advice on challenging Trump.]    1-27-24Elections.  “The Border Threatens Biden’s Re-Election.”  By WM. A. Galston.  [A deal seemed on the way, but Republicans want to keep the issue alive for November.]   1-31-24
  32. Elections.  “Acknowledging the Border ‘Crisis,’ Biden Suddenly Sounds Like Trump.”   By Jason L. Riley.  [The former president is pushing the GOP to kill an immigration compromise so he can run on the issue.]   1-31-24
  33. Elections.  “Biden Is Worse Than Churchill’s Pudding.”  By Karl Rove.  [Trump is beatable, but the president’s campaign has no persuasive theme.]   2-1-24
  34. Elections.  “Why Do Black Pastors Oppose Israel?”  by Alan Dershowitz and Andrew Stein.  [Henry Louis Gates had an answer more than 30 years ago.]   2-1-24
  35. Elections.  “The GOP’s Spending Boost for Biden.”   [Booming federal outlays are providing a short-term lift to GDP.]   2-1-24
  36. Elections.  “The Taylor Swift ‘Psyop.’”  [Populist paranoia on the Trump right takes an even more bizarre turn.]   2-1-24
  37. Elections.  “Trump Is a Danger to U.S. Security.”  By John Bolton.  [His isolationist views and erratic thinking and style would pose even greater risks in a second term.]   2-1-24
  38. Elections.  “Jamaal Bowman’s 9/11 Truther Poem.”  [Are his New York constituents fed up with this guy yet?]   2-2-24
  39. Elections.  “Incompetent Elites Make Trump Look Appealing.”  By John H. Cochrane.  [His supporters don’t love everything about him but are sick of being disdained and misgoverned.]   2-3-24
  40. Elections.  “Iran, the 2024 Election Spoiler.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [In 1980 Tehran helped bring down Jimmy Carter.  Will it do the same to Joe Biden?]   2-6-24
  41. Elections.  “Trump Punts on the Border.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, jr.  [The leader who was supposed o ‘get things done’ fails on immigration.]    2-7-24
  42. Elections.  “ A State of the Union for the Middle Class.”  By Wm. A. Galston.  [Lower prices and opportunities for noncollege workers should be prominent.]   2-7-24
  43. Elections.  “Trump’s Immunity Is Bigger Than him.”  [Is the Presidency at risk of being harried by partisan prosecutors?]   2-7-24
  44. Elections.  “Colorado Can’t Disqualify Trump.”   By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey.  [Applying the Insurrection Clause to the presidency would have given rogue states too much power.]   2-8-24
  45. Elections.  “Can Republicans  Hold George Santos’s House Seat.”  By Faith Bottum.  [Political neophyte Mazi Pilip is running neck-and-neck with Democratic former Rep. Tom Suozzi.]   2-10-24
  46. Elections.  “Matt Rosendale’s Gift to Chuck Schumer.”  [He wants another shot after losing Montana to Tester by 3.5 points.]   2-10-24
  47. Elections.  “America Is Having the Wrong Election.”  by Holman w. Jenkins, jr.  [Candidates Trump and Biden share an interest in not owning up to the prospect of a global war.]   2-10-24
  48. Elections.  “Stefanik Disqualifies Herself for the Vice Presidency.”  By Gregory F. Jacob.  [As she courts Trump, the congresswoman says she would have tried to overturn the 2020 election.]   2-12-24
  49. Elections.  “A Vote for President Harris.”  [The Vice President wants you to know she’s ready to be President.]   2-13-24
  50. Elections.  “A Borderline Crazy Campaign Strategy.’  By Jason L. Riley.  [Biden thinks hie can win by blaming the immigration crisis on Trump.  Really.]  2-14-24
  51. Elections.  “Biden Can’t Win Without Help from Trump.”  By Karl Rove.  [Voters have decided the president isn’t up to a second term.  But he keeps on running.]  2-15-24
  52. Elections.  “Border Cynicism Costs the GOP.”  [Democrat Tom Suozzi backs a border deal and takes back a House seat.]   2-15-24
  53. Elections.  “GOP Primary Showdown in South Carolina.”  By Barton Swaim.  [Pressed to summarize Nikki Haley’s message, one supporter offered: ‘She’s not Donald Trump.]   2-17-24
  54. Elections.  “Democrats Are Too Resigned to Biden.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [If he steps aside, he’ll be a hero to his party.  If he stays, his legacy may well be a second Trump term.]   2-17-24
  55. Elections.  “Haley’s Case to Keep Running.”   2-21-24
  56. Elections.  “Wisconsin’s Progressive Coup.”  [New state legislative maps could turn Madison into St. Paul.]   2-21-24
  57. Elections.  “Trump vs. Biden:  Only One Can Lose.”  By Karl Rove.  [In a chaotic race, turnout, third parties and debates could all make the difference.]   2-22-24
  58. Elections.  “Trump Forfeits the Debate Stage.”  By refusing to take on Nikki Haley, he’s giving Biden an easy out.] 2-22-24
  59. Elections.  “Biden, Trump and American Vanity.”  By Lance Morrow.  [The old WASP elites often had terrible judgment, but we should miss their ideals of leadership and service.]   2-23-24
  60. Elections.  “Ol’ Cranky and the State of The Union.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [Biden needs to address the immigration crisis, the economy and America’s place in the world.]   2-24-24
  61. Elections.  “Will Haley’s Voters Save the Day for Biden?  Don’t Bet on It.”  by Gerard Baker.  [Most of them will end up backing Trump, especially after almost four years of the alternative.]   2-27-24
  62. Elections.  “Battle of the Weak Incumbents.”  By Karl Rove.  [Voters will have to decide which is worse, feeble old Biden or angry old Trump.]   2-29-24
  63. Elections.  “The Winner in Michigan Is…RFK Jr.?”  [Trump lags his polls, and a Biden protest gets 1,000 votes.]   2-29-24
  64. Elections.  “Panic Time for Democrats.”  [Biden is losing to Trump in every poll as Super Tuesday arrives.]   3-4-24
  65. Elections.  “Joe Biden’s Unhappy Nation.”  By Daniel Henninger.  [Too many negative feedback loops have developed on this president’s watch.]   3-7-24
  66. Elections.  “Tuesday’s Winners Aren’t So Super.”  By Karl Rove.  [By overwhelming margins, voters back the worst candidates we’ve seen in years.]   3-7-24
  67. Elections.  “What Nikki Haley Accomplished.”  [Trump needs her voters to win but unifying gestures aren’t his style.]   3-7-24
  68. Elections.  “School Choice Can Save Biden’s Presidency.”  By Tressa Pankovits.  3-7-24
  69. Elections.  “The Trump-Biden Codependency.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Both presumptive nominees are so weak that they’d lose to virtually anyone else.]  3-8-24
  70. Elections.  “Greg Abbott’s Super-Duper Tuesday.”  [The Texas Governor ousts GOP lawmakers who killed school choice.]   3-8-24
  71. Elections.  “Biden’s Partisan State of Disunion.”  [The Democratic pep rally had not a single bipartisan grace note.]   3-10-24
  72. Elections.  “Global Chaos or the Orange Peril?”  by Walter Russell Mead. [Biden hopes voters will fear Trump 2.0 more than a drift toward World War III.]  3-12-24
  73. Elections.  “Biden Can Shout, but He’s No Truman.”  By Karl Rove.  [More important, Trump is no Dewey.  There won’t be a 1948-style comeback.]  3-14-24
  74. Elections.  “The Chicago Teacher’s Union’s Student Army.”   [The union plans to organize students and march them to the polls.]   3-15-24
  75. Elections.  “Will Political Hatred Spill Into the Streets?”  by Lance Morrow.  [The atmosphere in Biden-Trump America carries the odor of Weimar Germany, or Chicago in 1968.]   3-16-24
  76. Elections.  “Schumer Votes for the Trump Guy in Ohio.”  [Democrats are spending to boost Republican Moreno for the Senate.]  3-16-24
  77. Elections.  “TikTok, the Clock Winds Down to Elections Day.”   By Peggy Noonan.  [A heartening House vote the same week as the disheartening candidates clinch their nominations.]   3-16-24
  78. Elections.  “The US. Senate Needs Pro-Israel Voices.”  By Larry Hogan.  [That’s on one of the reasons I’m running to succeed Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin.]   3-18-24
  79. Elections.  “Why Democrats Are Losing Their Grip on Latino voters.”  By Jason L. Riley.  [The party’s lurch to the cultural left has hurt its sanding with working-class Hispanics.]  3-20-24
  80. Elections.  “2024 Comes Down to Only Seven States.”   By Karl Rove.   [Why the presidential candidates will talk about cars (Michigan) and water (Arizona).  3-21-24
  81. Elections.  “Biden is Coming for Your Truck.”  By Kimberley a. Strassel.  [‘Historic  progress’ on electric cars may turn into a historic rout in swing states.]   3-22-24
  82. Elections.  “Biden Is Merely a Player on Trump’s Stage.”  By James Taranto.  [Americans voted to end the drama.  Instead they got four more years and a mediocre supporting actor who cast himself as a hero.]   3-23-24
  83. Elections.  “On EVs, There’s a Lot of Hunter in Joe Biden.”  by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [His combination of selfishness an self-harm is working to put Trump back in the White House.]   3-23-24
  84. Elections.  “Biden Demotes America to the ‘Land of Possibilities.’”  By Matthew Hennessey.  [Whereas ‘opportunity’ implies agency, he suggests we’re at the mercy of forces beyond our control.]  3-25-24
  85. Elections.  “Democrats Will Probably Lose the Senate.” By Karl Rove.  [Opportunities abound for Republicans, who are defending only 11 seats this November.]   3-28-24
  86. Elections.  “Biden vs. Trump:  A Choice, Not an Echo, on Economic Policy.”  By Alan S. Blinder.  [The presidential nominees have very different views on climate, taxes, trade, entitlements, and labor.]   3-28-24 (Blinder was an adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry during their respective presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004)
  87. Elections.  “Meddlers for RFK Jr.” by Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Democrats may get bitten by a tactic they use to great effect in GOP primaries.]   3-29-24
  88. Elections.  “Joe Lieberman’s last Words on Israel.”  By Alan M. Dershowitz.  [A warning to Biden that he risks losing the votes of Jewish Democrats like us.]   3-29-24
  89. Elections.  “Maybe one Day We’ll Get a President We Feel Good About.”  By Joseph Epstein.  [He’d be someone with honor, courage and genuine desire to unite the country.  It could be a long wait.]   3-29-24
  90. Elections.  “Is This the End for PA’s Undated Ballots.”  [A Third Circuit ruling could stabilize 2024 voting, right on time.]   3-30-24
  91. Elections.  “The Ohio Voters Sen. Sherrod Brown Can’t Afford to Lose.”  By Salena Zito.  [The Mahoning Valley was a Democratic stronghold for almost a century.  Then Donald Trump came along.]   3-30-24
  92. Elections.  “The Shifting Trump-Biden Battlegrounds.”  By Karl Rove.   [In these states, small changes in partisan balance could end up swinging the election.]   4-4-24
  93. Elections.  “Wisconsin Bans Zuckerbucks.”   4-4-24
  94. Elections.  “No Labels Should Pick a Team.”  By Mitt Romney.  4-6-24
  95. Elections.  “No Labels, No Alternatives, No Escape.”  [Voters don’t want Biden or Trump, but America has a two-party system.]   4-6-24
  96. Elections.  “An October Disinformation Surprise Is Coming.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [Will the press be ready if, for the third election in a row, our national-security state meddles?]  4-6-24Elections.  “GOP May Not Manage to Lose the House.”  By Karl Rove.  [They’ve done a lot to put voters off, but they also have some advantages this year.]   4-11-24
  97. Elections.  “Latino and Black Voters Could Elect Trump.”  By Patrick Ruffini.  [Even a modest racial realignment would provide the margin of victory for Republicans in November.]   4-12-24
  98. Elections.  “The Obnoxious ‘Genocide Joe’ Protesters.”  By Wm. McGurn.   [Biden may be in for a rerun of 1968, with a ruinous Democratic Chicago convention.]   4-16-24
  99. Elections.  “The ‘You’re Stuck With Joe’ Strategy.”  By Homan W Jenkins, Jr.  [Don’t call it collusion but Biden’s campaign owes the Iranians a big thank-you note.]   4-17-24
  100. Elections.  ‘Biden Has to Win Back his 2020 Voters.”  By Wm. A. Galston.  [He has lost support in key voting blocs that helped him secure the White house last time.]  4-17-24
  101. Elections.  “Be a Wary Reader in the 2024 Election.”  By Karl Rove.  [Disinformation from Russia and China is evolving and has even spread to Capitol Hill.]   4-18-24
  102. Elections.  “Could Fossil Fuels Re-Elect Biden?”  [Oil and gas are doing more for the economy than his climate dreams.]   4-19-24
  103. Elections.  “Put Growth Back on the political Agenda.”  By Glenn Hubbard.  [Spooked by disruption, candidates give in to the temptations of industrial policy and protectionism.]  4-19-24
  104. Elections.  “Biden Piles Sanctions on Alaska.  [As the election nears, he’s blocking oil drilling and mining in the state.]   4-20-24
  105. Elections.  “Democrats’ ‘Election Interference.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Alvin Bragg’s theory in New York state’s Trump case is crazier than you think.]   4-26-24
  106. Elections.  “Bragg Wants the 2016 Election on Trial.”  [Prosecutors are trying to spin a bookkeeping charge as a vast Trump election conspiracy.]   4-26-24
  107. Elections.  “Biden Says He’ll Debate Trump.  When?”   4-27-24
  108. Elections.  “All the Disinformation That’s fit to Print.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [Will heavy-handed U.S. intelligence spooks re-elect Trump?  Will the New York Times help?]  4-27-24
  109. Elections.  “The Middle East Is a Trap for Joe Biden.”  By Walter Russell Mead.  He is caught between the national interest and the demands oof his political base.]   4-30-24
  110. Elections.  “Josh Shapiro, a Competent Pragmatist in Divided Times.”  By Salena Zito.  [Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor has earned a reputation for being sure-footed in a crisis.]  4-30-24
  111. Elections.  “Putin’s New Burisma Meme.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [Regard a Moscow conspiracy theory as a palate cleanser for your 2024 spookfest.]   5-1-24
  112. Elections.  “Illegal Votes Are Stolen From Citizens.”  By Bra Raffensperger.  [Liberals are intent on preventing states from verifying eligibility.]   5-1-24
  113. Elections.  “Trump Taunts Biden Over Fall Debates.”  By Karl Rove.  [Will the two men face off?   Of so, why not do it the way Kennedy and Nixon did in 1960?]   5-2-24
  114. Elections.  “There’s No Business Like White House Business.”  By Alan S. Blinder.  [Donald Trump may be an entrepreneur, but that doesn’t mean he’s a good steward of the economy.]   5-2-24 (Blinder was an adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry during their respective presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004)
  115. Elections.  “Biden Fails the Campus Test.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [His fear of taking on the crazy left poses a real threat to his re-election chances.]   5-3-24
  116. Elections.  “How to Choose a Vice President.”  by Karl Rove.  [Running mates don’t matter much, but they should be prepared to fill the top office.]   5-9-24
  117. Elections.  “The Lawfare Implosion of 2024.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Will the presentation of Donald Trump end up putting him back in the White House?]   5-10-24
  118. Elections.  “Why Biden Is Losing on the Economy.”   [The average annual inflation rate during his Presidency is 5.5%.]   5-11-24
  119. Elections.  “2024: A Certain Fatalism Sets In.”  by Peggy Noonan.  [Political pros start to ask if there’s anything President Biden can do to pull out a victory in November.]   5-11-24
  120. Elections.  “Musk and Trump:  Eerie Parallels.”  By Andy Kessler.  [One was the most important person in the world.  The other was president.”  5-13-24
  121. Elections.  “Trump’s Vice-Presidential Opportunity.”  [He needs to attract Haley’s voters, and a MAGA echo won’t do it.]   5-13-24
  122. Elections.  “RFK Jr.’s Threat to Trump.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [Once warm to the independent, the former president calls him a ‘left lunatic.”]   5-14-24
  123. Elections.  “Foreign Policy and the 2024 Election:  Feckless or Reckless?”  by Gerard Baker.  [Biden is weak.  Trump is unpredictable.  Either way, we likely face four more years of instability.]    5-14-24
  124. Elections.  “Vice President Kristi Noem?  That Dog won’t Hunt.”  By Faith Bottum.  [Even in the age of Donald Trump, shooting a pooch turns out to fall foul of American political norms.]   5-14-24
  125. Elections.  “Marxism Is a Gulag of the Mind.”  By Gary Saul Morson.  [The left manipulates politics by inverting the meaning of terms like ‘democracy’ and ‘equity.’   5-15-24
  126. Elections.  “Trump’s Wildwood Days.”  By Daniel Henninger.  [The raucous New Jersey rally had the outlines of a broader election appeal.]   5-16-24
  127. Elections.  “Biden Goes From the Basement to Denial.”  By Karl Rove.   [Polls show him behind Trump, and he won’t come back unless he admits the problem.]   5-16-24
  128. Elections.  “Trump and Haley:  A Perfect Match.”  By Gordon Sondland.  [As running mates, they can unite voters, raise money, and dominate American public policy for years.]   5-16-24
  129. Elections.  “A Republican Primary Brawl in South Texas.”  By Sierra Dawn McClain.  [Rep. Tony Gonzales faces a runoff against Brandon Herrera in a solid but not quite safe GOP district.]   5-17-24
  130. Elections.  “Democrats Take Jewish voters for Granted.”  By Ammiel Hirsh.  [We are liberal and support Israel.  The party risks losing us by pandering to its antisemitic elements.]   5-17-24
  131. Elections.  “A New Jersey Friend Is Sticking With Trump.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [‘It was like he makes you fell everything’s gonna be OK,’ she says.  And ‘he’s very funny and sarcastic.’]   5-18-24
  132. Elections.  “Suddenly Democrats Care About the Border.”  By John Thune.  [Biden and Schumer begin to see their political vulnerability.]   5-21-24
  133. Elections.  “Russia Influence Racket Redux.”  By Holman W. Jankins, Jr.  [Expect the most polluted election ever as MSNBC redefines ‘Russia hoax.’]  5-22-24
  134. Elections.  “Joe Biden’s 2024 Election Bribes.”  By Daniel Henninger.  [The president is using the U.S. treasury like a 1920s party boss’s safe.]   5-23-24
  135. Elections.  “Will RFK Jr.  Swing the Election to Biden?  By Karl Rove.  [Third parties never win, but on occasion they’ve been known to determine the loser.]   5-23-24
  136. Elections.  “Election 2024:  Send In the Tropes.”  By Lance Morrow.  [It’s a three ring circus:  the Trump trials, the Biden fiasco and the culture war between woke and MAGA.]   5-24-24
  137. Elections.  “America’s Presidential Election Dilemma.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [The best of the voter’s bad choices may be to hope the next president doesn’t serve four years.]   5-25-24
  138. Elections.  “The Unsinkable Kamala Harris.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [A party that lives by identity politics is now trapped by identity politics.]   5-28-24
  139. Elections.  “Don’t Blame Me for Biden’s Ballot Problem.”  By Frank La Rose.  [It’s my duty as Ohio’s chief elections officer to uphold the law.]   5-28-24
  140. Elections.  “The High Court on Racial Gerrymandering.”  [A South Carolina case clarifies the high bar for judicial intervention.]   5-28-24
  141. Elections.  “Will Biden Drag Senate Democrats Down With Him?”  by Gerard Baker.  [So far at least, his party’s swing-state incumbents are polling ahead of the unpopular president.]   5-28-24
  142. Elections.  “Libertarians Should Vote For Trump.”  By Walter E. Block.  [He isn’t one of us, but he promised to pardon Ross Ulbricht — and he’s a lot better than Joe Biden.]   5-29-24
  143. Elections.  “Larry Hogan Runs for Senate Centrist.”  By Mene Ukueberuwa.  [Flipping a Maryland seat could win a GOP majority, but the former governor appeals to Democrats too.]  5-29-24
  144. Elections.  “Robert De Niro Tries to Out-Crazy MTG.”  by Karl Rove.  [Biden and Trump surrogates are trying their best to alienate crucial swing voters.]   5-30-24
  145. Elections.  “Elon Musk Should Be a Democrat.”  By Joe Cunningham.  {He flirts with Trump, but his businesses are in line with Biden’s priorities.]   5-31-24
  146. Elections.  “Trump’s Conviction and Biden’s Worst Decision.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [If he really were FDR, it might justify what he’s putting the country through for a second term.]   6-1-24
  147. Elections.  “Why Republicans Hate the Trump Verdict.”  6-3-24
  148. Elections.  “Biden’s Border Election Gambit.”  [With graph of “Encounters at the U.S. Southern Border by Fiscal Year, 2008 – 2024]   6-5-24
  149. Elections.  “Lara Trump Denounces Larry Hogan.”  6-5-24
  150. Elections.  “A Belated Apology for ‘2000 Mules.’”  [Salem Media settles a defamation lawsuit for a ‘significant’ amount.]   6-6-24
  151. Elections.  “Democratic Lawfare Arrives in Wisconsin.”  [The case against a GOP elector slate would make Alvin Bragg blush.]   6-8-24
  152. Elections.  “Who’s Next in Line After President Kamala Harris?”  by Kenneth L. Khachigian.  [The question isn’t as odd as it sounds  She could easily be sitting in the Oval Office this time next year.]   6-8-24
  153. Elections.  “No Summer Vacation From Election 2024.”  By Karl Rove.  [Six major inflection points are coming between now and the autumnal equinox.]   6-13-24
  154. Elections.  “How Black Voters Become Swing Voters.”  By Robert L. Woodson Dr.  [Democrats have left a leadership vacuum, but Republicans need to make the case for themselves.]   6-13-24
  155. Elections.  “Is Business Rally ‘Part of the Problem’?”  [“…That’s how Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester described his opponent, Tim Sheehy…”]   6-17-24
  156. Elections.  “Trump vs. Biden:  An Economic Gamble Either way.”  By Allysia Finley.  [The challenger’s tariff and immigration plans might be risky, but are they worse than the status quo?]   6-17-24
  157. Elections.  “Trump’s Tips-Tax Gambit.”  [He plays Biden-lite on tax policy with a carve-out for tipped income.]   6-18-24
  158. Elections.  “Trump vs. Biden:  Can We Overcome Our Disbelief?”  by Gerard Baker.  [We’re aske to accept that the incumbent is sharp as  tack and the challenger has the character to lead.]   6-18-24
  159. Elections.  “Joe Biden’s Celebrity Party.”  By Daniel Henninger.  [He’ll take Hollywood, but Trump is peeling away layers of the Democratic coalition.]   6-20-24
  160. Elections.  “Experts Handicap the Trump-Biden Debate.”  By Karl Rove.  [A make-or-break moment arrives unusually early in the presidential race.]   6-20-24
  161. Elections.  “Why Republicans Don’t Abandon ‘Felon’ Trump.”  By Michael W.  McConnell.  [They see the Democrats’ political use of the justice system as a more serious threat to democracy.]   6-20-24
  162. Elections.  “Elections in SopranoLand.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Democrats campaign against the ‘criminal’ GOP nominee.  Then there’s New Jersey.]   6-21-24
  163. Elections.  “CNN Blackballs Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “  by John Fund.  [It ignores Federal Election Commission rules in excluding him from the debate.]   6-21-24
  164. Elections.  “Wisconsin’s Republican Masochists.”  [Trump supporters may cost the state GOP its legislative majority.]   6-22-24
  165. Elections.  “Trump Green Lights More Green Cards.”  [He acknowledges the need for human talent to compete with China.]   6-24-24
  166. Elections.  “Young Voters No Longer Get A Charge out of the Biden Presidency.”  By Allysia Finley.  [Most can’t afford a home, and many are struggling to find work.  They can’t even sell their used EVs.]   6-24-24
  167. Elections.  “Trump Is Now the Candidate of Normalcy.”  By Bill Hagarty.  [Biden’s watch brought disasters overseas, inflation and abuses of he justice system.]   6-26-24
  168. Elections.  “Trump’s Presidential Watershed.”  [His VP choice and the debate are chances to expand his coalition.]   6-26-24
  169. Elections.  “Trump vs. Biden:  This Debate Could Change Everything.”  By Gerard Baker.  [The president takes a risk in proposing a face-off so early in the cycle.  He also has some advantages.]  6-25-24
  170. Elections.  “The Presidential Debate Is Donald Trump’s to Lose.”  By Jason L. Riley.  [Even with the moderators in Biden’s corner, the president will have a hard time with the questioning.]   6-26-24
  171. Elections.  “A Trump-Biden Cage Match?” by Daniel Henninger.  [A presidential debate on issues is what most voters want.  Don’t hold your breath.]   6-27-24
  172. Elections.  “Trump’s Debate Chance on Drug Prices.”  By Grace-Marie Turner.  [NATO and Operation Warp Speed show the path to supporting medical innovation.]   6-27-24
  173. Elections.  “A Political Base Is Only a Base.”  By Karl Rove.  [Neither party can win without expanding its appeal to swing voters and even defectors.]   6-27-24
  174. Elections.  “For Trump as for Clinton, It’s Still the Economy, Stupid.”  By David Malpass.  [Biden’s costly rules and spending made inflation worse.  The challenger would foster growth.]   6-27-24
  175. Elections.  “The 51 Intel Know-Nothings.”  By Kimberley A Strassel.  [New revelations on the 2020 attempt to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.]   6-28-24
  176. Elections.  “Republicans Win on Support for Ukraine.”  [The vote for military aid has made no difference in GOP primaries.]   6-28-24
  177. Elections.  “The Most Important Presidential Debate Ever.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [It was an unmitigated disaster for Biden and a rout for Trump.  Democrats will have to face reality.]  6-29-24
  178. Elections.   “Presidential Debate Stirs Memories of Leonid Brezhnev.”  By Sergey Radchenko. [The Soviet leader was only 75 when he died, but his infirmities led to the Soviet Union’s collapse.]   6-29-24
  179. Elections.  “Sorry, Democrats, Biden Is Your Man.”  By Taylor Budowich.  [They can’t convince him to withdraw – and if they do, then comes the hard part.]   7-1-24
  180. Elections.  “The Mess Democrats Have Made.”  [Imagine if Biden had chosen a VP for competence rather than identity politics.]   7-1-24
  181. Elections.  “Margaret Chase Smith for President.”  By Lance Morrow.  [True, she’d be 126 years old, but she was smarter, fairer and more principled than Trump or Biden.]   7-1-24
  182. Elections.  “Would Gavin Newsom Beat Trump?  Don’t Bet on It.”  By Allysia Finley.  [Winning is easy in a one-party state.  In a national race, he’d have t answer for his terrible record.]   7-1-24
  183. Elections.  “Biden Should Withdraw, And So Should Trump.”  By Ted Van Dyk.  7-1-24
  184. Elections.  “A Debate Heard ‘Round the World.”  By Walter Russell Mead. [Seeing foreign policy as a crucial weakness of Biden’s presidency, Trump hammers away.]  7-2-24
  185. Elections.  “The Constitution Protects ‘Fake Electors.’”  By Lawrence Lessig.  [Efforts to prosecute them constitute election interference.]   7-2-24
  186. Elections.  “Is Josh Shapiro Capable of Leadership?”  by Wm. McGurn.  [He says he supports a school-choice plan, but so far he’s done nothing to advance it.]   7-2-24
  187. Elections.  “Democracy’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated.”  By Matthew Hennessey.  [Voters preferred Biden in 2020.  Maybe they’ll pick Trump this time.  That’s how the system works.]   7-2-24
  188. Elections.  “Who’s Afraid of Kamala Harris?”  [Team Biden is trying to scare Democrats that she’s the only alternative.]   7-3-24
  189. Elections.  “About the Democratic Panic.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [With polls starting to come in after Biden’s miser able debate, it’s freak-out time.]   7-5-24
  190. Elections.  “President Biden, the Time to Leave Is Now.”  By James. S. Robbins.  [A majority of voters believe he is no longer fit to be president.]   7-5-24
  191. Elections.  “Donald Trump and the Clouseau Democrats.”  [An elite that can be so readily and repeatedly outsmarted is an elite that needs replacing.]   7-6-24
  192. Elections.  “Why Joe Probably Won’t Go.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [What the election looks like now that the press is not covering for Biden.]   7-9-24
  193. Elections.  “Team Biden’s Cynical Gamble.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [His mental aging and poor polls were the problem.  Trump was the solution.]   7-10-24
  194. Elections.  “Democrats’ Chance to Reshuffle the Deck.”  By Wm. A. Galston.  [If Biden steps aside, the party could still beat Trump with the right strategy.]   7-10-24
  195. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Would Be the Best Democratic Choice.”  by Jason L. Riley.   [She’d rally black voters who are souring on Democrats and she’d close to Trump in the polls.]   7-10-24
  196. Elections.  “The Biden Problem Is Policy.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [He’s indispensable at 81 because the rest of the party has moved too far left for voters.]   7-12-24
  197. Elections.  “Abortion and Trumps VP Choice.”  [The veep finalist who’s closest to Trump is N.D. Gov. Doug Burgum.]   7-12-24
  198. Elections.  “The Coming ‘Summer of Resistance.’  7-12-24
  199. Elections.  “Two Old Men Face Armageddon.”  By Lance Morrow.  [Trump and Biden are locked in a death struggle for leadership of a country of which each of them is a symptom of decline.]   7-13-24
  200. Elections.  “The Bitter Biden Reality Sinks In.”  [Democrats fear defeat, but the bigger threat is the next four years.]   7-13-24
  201. Elections.  “If Democrats Are Wise, They’ll Embrace Chaos.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [The romantic see things clearly.  Biden can’t go on, and anointing Harris would be a mistake.]   7-13-24
  202. Elections.  “George Clooney Wakes Up to the Biden Grift.”  By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr.  [A weak and deteriorating president suckered his own party with a high-risk bid for a second term.]   7-13-24
  203. Elections.  “America’s Jacksonian Turn.”   By Walter Russel Mead.  [The assassination attempt gives new power to an old political tendency.]   7-15-24
  204. Elections.  “About Biden’s Pledge to Unify the Nation.”  By Allysia Finley.  [He was elected to ‘be normal and stop the chaos.’  At that he has manifestly failed.]   7-15-24
  205. Elections.  “The Shooting of Donald Trump.”  [The near miss is miraculous, and it could be redemptive political moment.]   7-15-24
  206. Elections.  “Quarantining the Conspiracy Swamps.”  [the conspiracists on the right and left should be ostracized.]   7-15-24
  207. Elections.  “A Chance to Reject Political Valence.”  By Wm. A. Galston.  [The response to the assassination attempt against Trump could be redemptive.]   7-16-24
  208. Elections.  “Trump Bets on a MAGA Successor.”  [He chooses a 39-year old Senator who will reinforce his base.]   7-16-24
  209. Elections.  “J.D. Vance and the Indian-American Dream.”  By Tunku Varadarajan.  [This immigrant group has prospered without quotas or grievances.]   7-17-24
  210. Elections.  “The Trump Economy, Past and Future.”  [Deregulation and tax reform were pro-growth, but tariffs hurt the common man.]   7-17-24
  211. Elections.  “Biden Proposes Nationwide Rent Control.”  [He wants to cap rent increases at 5% a year, if you can believe it.]   7-17-24
  212. Elections.  “J.D. Vance and the Rise of ‘Postliberalism.”  By Graedon H. Zorzi.  [He brings philosophical heft to Trump’s attack on the progressive elites and the ‘deep state.’”  7-17-24
  213. Elections.    “Trump’s Presidential Moment.”  By Karl Rove.  [After the attempt on his life, he has a chance to unify the nation at the RNC.]   7-18-24
  214. Elections.  “Donald Trump’s Third Presidential Life.”  [The election is his to lose.  Can he govern better if he wins?”]   7-18-24
  215. Elections.  “Trump’s Biggest Volatility Risk?  Taiwan.”  [The GOP nominee signals that he might not defend the island.]   7-18-24
  216. Elections.  “The Trump-Vance Divide.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [They agree on trade, but the ticket’s No.2 marks a major shift on economic policy.]   7-19-24
  217. Elections.  “Democrats Prepare for the Biden Coup.”  [Biden won’t stay in power through 2028.  It’s more honest if Harris faces voters now.]   7-19-24
  218. Elections.  “Vance, Khan and the GOP’s Contradictions.”  [Trump’s running mate has embraced Biden’s most lawless regulator.]   7-19-24
  219. Elections.  “Political Violence Is Even Worse in Europe.”  By Joseph C. Sternberg.  [Attacks sometimes come from the right, more often from the left, and jihadism is a 21st-century wrinkle.]   7-19-24
  220. Elections.  “Team GOP’s Premature End-Zone Dance.”  By Matthew Hennessey.   7-19-24
  221. Elections.  “Why the “Insurrection’ Argument Falls Flat.”  By Barton Swaim.  [The Jan. 6 riot was one of many cases of Covid -era folly.  Most votes would [refer not to be reminded.]  7-20-24
  222. Elections.  “Trump Meets Half the Moment.”  [A moving account of this near-assassination, mixed with a rambling, indulgent stump speech.]   7-20-24
  223. Elections.  “A Trumpian Triumph in Milwaukee.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [A movement that was a joke nine years ago is a party now.  Its members are certain whey will win.]   7-20-24
  224. Elections.  “Trump:  Still Lucky in His Enemies.”   by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [If the Almighty is looking out for the Republican nominee, he would have interrupted the speech.]   7-20-24
  225. Elections.  “Democrats Will Pay for the Biden Big Lie.”   By Matthew Hennessey.  [Americans won’t appreciate being played for suckers.]   7-22-24
  226. Elections.  “Democrats Misled Their Own Voters.”   By Barton Swaim.  [Pretending Biden was fine was a far greater danger to the country than feigning admiration for Trump.]   7-22-24
  227. Elections.  “The Voters Prevail Against Biden.”  [His decision to end his campaign is in the nation’s interest, even if it was begrudging.]   7-22-24
  228. Elections.  “Trump Gives an Assist to Democrats.”  [His reaction to Biden’s decision was small-minded and divisive.]   7-22-24
  229. Elections.  “J.D. Vance, Kamala Harris and Cary Grant.”  By Allysia Finley.  [The Ohio senator has star power and flexibility.  There’s little indication the vice president does.]   7-22-24
  230. Elections.  “Barack Obama Strikes Again.”   By Wm. McGurn.  [For the second time, he’s helped keep Joe Biden off the presidential ticket.]   7-23-24
  231. Elections.  “Biden Gets the Chicago Treatment.”  By Rod R. Blagojevich.  [Barack Obama, an old-fashioned ward boss, orchestrates the president’s removal.]   7-23-24
  232. Elections.  “What Kamala Harris Believes.”  [Her political record reveals the views of a California progressive.]  7-23-24
  233. Elections.  “It’s Kamala Harris by Acclamation.]   7-23-24
  234. Elections.  “Another Coronation for Kamala.”  By Allysia Finley.  [She floated to the top in a one-party state.  Who thinks she has the skills to serve as president?]  7-23-24
  235. Elections.  “Harris Swap Leaves a Similar Race.”  By Mark Penn and Andrew Stein.  [Her poll numbers are close to Biden’s, though she does a bit better in the South and worse in the Midwest.]   7-23-24
  236. Elections.  “Kamala’s Biden Burden.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.   [How the outgoing president sabotaged his designated survivor.]   7-24-24
  237. Elections.  “Kamala Harris’s Rocky Road to Victory.”  By Wm.  A. Galston.  [The vice president is trailing Trump.  To beat him, she’ll need a clear plan of action.]   7-24-24
  238. Elections.  “America Is Both an Idea an a Home”  by Larry Arnn  [Vanc is right.  We can honor the nation and revere its founding principles at once.]   7-24-24
  239. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Steers to the Left.”  [The implicit message of her first big rally:  Swing voters?  Who needs ‘em.]   7-24-24
  240. Elections.  “Tension Between Bibi and Kamala.”  By Walter Russell Mead.  [Harris skips Netanyahu’s address, fueling talk of a rift with Biden over approaches to the region.]   7-24-24
  241. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Isn’t the Change Democrats Need.”  By Jason L. Riley.  [On issues from crime to immigration to inflation, she offers more of the same failed left-wing policies.]   7-24-24
  242. Elections.  “Democrats Destroy Democracy to Save it.”  By Douglas E. Schoen.  [Part leaders protected Biden from votes, then dumped him for Harris.  Is this any way to win??]   7-24-24
  243. Elections.  “Why Kamala Could Win.”  By Danie Henninger.  [Donald Trump could have closed the deal with his acceptance speech.  He didn’t.]   7-25-24
  244. Elections.  “Harris Saves Democrats From Certain Defeat.”  By Karl Rove.  [A younger face atop the ticket makes it a real race again.  Can Team Trump adapt?]   7-25-24
  245. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Confounds the GOP.”  [Her strong start seems to have caught Republicans by surprise.]   7-25-24
  246. Elections.  “For a Vice President, It’s Hard to Succeed.”  By Robert B. Zoellick.  [George H.W. Bush was the only one elected since Martin Van Furen.  There are lessons for Harris.]  7-25-24
  247. Elections.  “If Republicans Don’t Win, Get Ready for a Tax Hike.”  By Mike Pence and Pat Toomey.  [The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act helped produce the Trump boom.  Many provisions expire in 2025.]   7-25-24
  248. Elections.  “The Left Molds Kamala Harris.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [She’ll be much more of a threat to Trump if she ignores them and tacks to the enter.]   7-26-24
  249. Elections.  “The Kamala Harris Cult Needs a Personality.”  By Ted Rall.  [She’s attracted true believers but what do they believe in?]   7-26-24
  250. Elections.  “Biden’s Court-Smacking Plan.”  [Does Kamala Harris support these dubious ideas to undermine judicial independence?]  7-26-24
  251. Elections.  “The Antigrowth Agendas of Harris and Trump.”  By Mickey D. Levy.  [Both candidates are running on economic platforms filled with destructive nonsense.]   7-26-24
  252. Elections.  “In Picking Kamala Harris, Democrats Follow the Tories’ Folly.”  By Joseph C. Sternberg.  [Conservative suffered an electoral shellacking when party elites chose a leader the voters didn’t like.]   7-26-24
  253. Elections.  “Can Trump Beat Harris With ‘Common Sense’?”  by Barton Swaim.  [The former president’s fandom intensifies as the left gets crazier.  His opponent is now a West Coast progressive.]   7-27-24
  254. Elections.  “J.D. Vance’s Basket of Deplorables.”  [Trump’s running mate is on the defensive over his views about the childless.]   7-27-24
  255. Elections.  “The Kamala Harris Surprise.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [I had long thought she couldn’t beat Donald Trump.  That’s wrong.  In a 50/50 country, she can.]  7-27-24
  256. Elections.  “Joe Biden Is No Hero of Democracy.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [The debacle of the last month shows that an establishment ‘insider’ can do a lot of damage too.]   7-27-24
  257. Elections.  “The New Right Looks Left.”  By Andy Kessler.  [Both sides cheer on union strikes, are anti-free-market, and hate Big Tech.]   7-29-24
  258. Elections.  “Who’s Afraid of Project 2025?”  [Democrats run against aa think-tank paper that Trump disavows.  Why?}  7-29-24
  259. Elections.  “Cardona’s Hatch Act offense.  [He attacks Republicans in a letter to student loan recipients.]   7-29-24
  260. Elections.  “In Defense of Kamala Harris and the childless Cat Ladies.”  By Allysia Finley.  [someone tell J.D. Vance:  Bearing children doesn’t define one’s character or degree of patriotism.]   7-29-24
  261. Elections.  “Kamala’s Chicago Moment.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [Hard-left protesters denounce ‘Genocide Joe.’  They revile the vice president too.]   7-30-24
  262. Elections.  “Kamala Harris’s Gift to Hamas.”  By Amit Segal.  [She relieves pressure on the terror group to agree to release Israeli hostages.]   7-30-24
  263. Elections.  “British and French Election Lessons for U.S.”  by Matthew O. Skrod.  [They require IDS and conduct most voting on election day.]   7-30-24
  264. Elections.  “Trump Becomes a Crypto Convert.”  [He’s right to replace Gary Gensler, but why a national bitcoin reserve.?]   7-30-24
  265. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Made Progress on the Border Crisis.”  By Katie Tobin.  [Under her leadership, the administration tackled migrations’ root causes in northern Central America.]   7-30-24  (Ms. Tobin is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace  She served as deputy assistant to the president and coordinator for the Los Angels Declaration at the White House National Security Council, 2021-24.)
  266. Elections.  “Kamala Is a Mystery Gift Box.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [The 100-day campaign is a Hail Mary for hard-core Trump rejecters.]   7-31-24
  267. Elections.  “J.D. Vance’s Disregard for the Rule of Law.”  By Wm. A Galston.  [The senator appears willing to ignore court rulings, undermining the balance of powers.]   7-31-24
  268. Elections.  “How Canadian Is Kamala Harris?”  by Michael Taube.  [She spent her teen years in Montreal, where she had her first taste of activism.]   7-31-24
  269. Elections.  “Trump Buries Project 2025.”  [The Heritage Foundation learns a hard lesson in Trumpism.]   7-31-24
  270. Elections.  “Social Conservatism Is Alive and Well.”  By Matthew Hennessey.  [The rage directed a J.D. Vance and Ballerina Farm proves that the cultural left is far from triumphing.]   7-31-24
  271. Elections.  “Vance Derangement Syndrome.”  By Daniel Henninger.  [Attacking Trump’s running mate as weird is the Democrats latest big idea.]   8-1-24
  272. Elections.  “Presidential Marathon Becomes a Sprint.”  By Karl Rove.  [The Trump-Biden race was as long as it felt.  Trump-Harris is over in 100 days.]   8-1-24
  273. Elections.  “Donald Trump and the Black Journalists.”   [He meets his critics head on.  Where was Kamala Harris?]   8-1-24
  274. Elections.  “Biden:  Forgotten but Not Gone.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Behind the scenes, he’s campaigning for Harris by buying off her constituencies.]   8-2-24
  275. Elections.  “The High Political Stakes of Fed Rate Cuts.”  By Joseph C. Sternberg.  [Powell got plenty of flack on inflation.  He faces a much more complex choice as the election approaches.]  8-2-24
  276. Elections.  “Antisemites Target Josh Shapiro.”  By Daniel Rosen.   8-2-24
  277. Elections.  “The Fight of Trump’s Political Life.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [Kamala Harris has the wind at her back.  Her strengths became clearer in the past two weeks.]  8-3-24
  278. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Has a Brat Summer.”  By Andy Kessler.   [Charli XCX’s music has hooked in the underemployed, doom-scroller vote.]   8-5-24
  279. Elections.  “Harris and the First Amendment.”  [The Supreme Court rebuked her use of lawfare in California.]   8-5-24
  280. Elections.  “Trump Loses the Tax Cut Plot.”  [Ending taxes on Social Security benefits would kill his 2017 reform.]   8-5-24
  281. Elections.  “J.D. Vance’s Knockoff Theory of Manufacturing.”  By Allysia Finley.  [Modern appliances enrich American’s lives, and the jobs that produce them aren’t being lost to China.]   8-5-24
  282. Elections.  “Debate the Veep, Mr. Trump.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [His demurral may be a negotiating tactic.  He has a lot to gain by facing Kamala Harris.]   8-6-24
  283. Elections.  “Trump Runs Against Republicans.”  [Does he think his opponent is Brian Kemp or Kamala Harris?]   8-6-24
  284. Elections.  “The Reinvention of Kamala Harris.”  By Gerard Baker.  [Democrats stuck with Biden because they thought she was even weaker.  Has that changed?}   8-6-24
  285. Elections.  “Joe Biden, Agent of Chaos.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [If defeating Trump is so important, why has it become a 90-day crapshoot?]   8-7-24
  286. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Rises, but She Could Fall.”  By Wm. A. Galston.  [Democrats hope she can re-create the 20220 coalition.  But she has weaknesses.]   8-7-24
  287. Elections.  “Kamala Harris’s Revealing VP Choice.”  [In her first big decision, she bends to progressive pressure for Tim Walz.]  8-7-24
  288. Elections.  “A Minnesotan Sizes Up Tim Walz.”  By Scott W. Johnson.  [During his tenure, student achievement has slipped, crime has surged, and state residents have fled.]   8-7-24
  289. Elections.  “J.D. Vance Is ‘Weird’?  Have You Seen the Other Guys?”  by Lance Morrow.  [To find something more bizarre than the woke left, you’d have to delve into the works of Lewis Caroll.]   8-7-24
  290. Elections.  “Trump Teeters, but Will He Fall?”  by Karl Rove.  [He looked unbeatable until Biden dropped out.  Now he urgently needs to get on track.]   8-8-24
  291. Elections.  “Will Trump Blow Another Election?”  [As Harris rises in the polls, Trump doesn’t know how to respond.]   8-8-24
  292. Elections.  “Tim Walz’s Progressive Tax Experiment.”  [The Minnesota economy is no success story on the Governor’s watch.]   8-8-24
  293. Elections.  “Choose Your Own Kamala.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [She’s been compared to John Kerry, but he was a relatively honest flip-flopper.]   8-9-24
  294. Elections.  “Echoes of Casey in Josh Shapiro’s Shunning.”  By Matthew Schmitz.  [Both Pennsylvania governors fell foul of their party for views connect to religion.]   8-9-24Elections.  “Is Tim Walz Guilty of ‘Stolen Valor’?”  8-9-24
  295. Elections.  “President Kamala Harris?  What Are the Odds?”  (The weekend Interview with Nate Silver by James Taranto.  [She’s a slight favorite, the election analyst says, but the race is far from over.  She could fall victim to the groupthink that led to denial of Biden’s decline.]   8-10-24
  296. Elections.  “Walz’s Climate Policies Could Leave the Midwest in the Dark.”  By Joshua Antonini and Jason Hayes.  [Minnesota isn’t alone in pursuing ‘net zero,’ leaving nowhere to go when solar and wind power fail.]   8-10-24
  297. Elections.  “The Minnesota Tax and Spend Model.”  [Tim Walz is turning the state into another California and New York.]   8-10-24
  298. Elections.  “Kamala picks a Midwestern Smoothie.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [With Trump floundering, she aims to tun out her ideological base, not to win over swing votes.]   8-10-24Elections.  “Notable & Quotable:  Kamala Ducks the Press.”  From Politico’s West Wing Playbook, Ug.7…”  8-10-24
  299. Elections.  “Is Silicon Valley Turning Right?”  by Andy Kessler.  [Elon Muk backs Trump, but nearly 800 signed a ‘VCs for Kamala’ pledge.]   8-12-24
  300. Elections.  “If You Like Your Health Plan, Meet Kamala.  [Her Medicare for All plan is a fat political target for the GOP.]   8-12-24
  301. Elections.  “Why Trump Voters Fear Speaking Out.”  By Allysia Finley.  [Sticker Mule’s Anthony Constantino endorsed the GOP nominee.  Boycotts and death threats followed.]  8-12-24
  302. Elections.  “Moulton, Vance and ‘Marine Values.’”  By Paul w. Steketee.  [The vice-presidential nominee served honorably.  Anyone saying otherwise owes the corps an apology.]   8-12-24
  303. Elections.  “On the Waterfront, An Election Wild Card.”  By Peter Tirschwell.  [The Longshoreman’s union threatens to close shipping ports and disrupt supply chains on Sept 30.]   8-12-24
  304. Elections.  “The ‘Killer Kamala’ Convention.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [Will the thousands of anti-Israel protesters in Chicago ruin it for the Democrats?]   8-13-24
  305. Elections.  “Whistling Past a $1.9 trillion Deficit.”  [If Trump won’t press Harris on too much spending, nobody will.]   8-13-24
  306. Elections.  “A Bad Tax Policy Tips Over.”  [Harris copies Trump’s tax on tips exemption.  What did he expect?]  8-13-24
  307. Elections.  “Trump Is Looking Like a Loser Again.”  By Gerard Baker.  [About one third of his remarks at last week’s press conference were false, obtuse or lunatic.]   8-13-24
  308. Elections.  “Kamala’s Avoidant Campaign.” By Holman W. Jenkins.  [But voters want to know what they’re going to get in a commander in chief.]   8-14-24
  309. Elections.  “Three Great Harris Weeks Down, 12 to go.”  By Wm. A. Galston.  [The new nominee sprints to a lead.  Can she endure the long road to Election Day?]   8-14-24
  310. Elections.  “Donald Trump the Central Banker.”  [He’s an easy money man, but he has a point about Fed mistakes.]   8-14-24
  311. Elections.  “Walz Dithered While Minneapolis Burned.”  By Heather Mac Donald.  [Kamala Harris made an odd choice of running mate if she wanted to appear tough on crime.]  8-14-24
  312. Elections.  “Trump Allows Harris a Second Chance at a First Impression.”  By Jason L. Riley.  [The former president needs to get over himself and focus on attacking the administration’s record.]  8-14-24
  313. Elections.  “Are Trump’s Rallies Losers?”  by Daneil Henninger.  [They no longer bring in any new voters.  He should try holding town halls instead.]   8-15-24
  314. Elections.  “Trump vs. Harris:  Where’s the change?”  by Karl Rove.  [She needs to distance herself from Biden.  Trump’s burden is Trump himself.]   8-15-24
  315. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Will Pay You Not to Work.”  [She has endorsed several measures that resemble Universal Basic Income.]   8-15-24
  316. Elections.  “Drug Price Controls Mean Fewer Cures.”  [The Inflation Reduction Act is already causing cuts I R&D spending.]   8-15-24
  317. Elections.  “Trump, Musk and Union Crocodile Tears.”  [The USW files a labor complaint over the Trump-Musk interview.]   8-15-24
  318. Elections.  “A Political Movement – Literally.].  by Matthew O. Skrod.  [A nonprofit urges liberals to relocate to swing districts or vote from vacation homes.]   8-16-24
  319. Elections.  “The Real Biden-Harris Economic Record.”  [A government spending boom fueled inflation hat has crushed real average incomes.]   8-16-24
  320. Elections.  “Black Voters Demand Educational Choice.”  By Joshua C. Robertson.  [If Donald Trump and Kamala Harris want our votes, let them prove they respect our values.]   8-16-24
  321. Elections.  “Trump’s Reaganite ‘Iron Dome’ Idea.”  By Shay Khatiri.  [Relying on the threat of a second strike makes even less sense today than it did during the Cold War.]   8-16-24
  322. Elections.  “How I Differ With J.D. Vance.”   By Ro Khanna.  [the senator identified a real problem in the decline of American industry.  But the Republican Party has all the wrong solutions.]   8-17-24
  323. Elections.  “Trump Needs Kellyanne Conway.”  By Andrew Stein.  [She can help him regain his focus, as she did against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign.]   8-17-24
  324. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Endorses Nixonomics.”  [She wants price controls on groceries, Venezuelan-style.]   8-17-24
  325. Elections.  “The $3 Trillion Cash-for-Kids Bidding War.”  [Vance wants $5,000 child tax credit.  Harris is now talking $6,000.]   8-17-24
  326. Elections.  “The Vice President’s Biggest Speech.:  by Peggy Noonan.  [In July 1988, George H.W. Bush was famous but unknown – and down in the polls by 17 points.]   8-17-24
  327. Elections.  “The Convention Games.”  By Andy Kessler.  [We should be making the event in Chicago as entertaining as the Paris Olympics.]   8-19-24
  328. Elections.  “With Biden Gone, Delaware Could Flip.”  By Mike Ramone.  [The First State was long a bellwether.  It could be one again.]  8-19-24
  329. Elections.  “A ‘Dangerous Time’ for Jews.”   8-19-24
  330. Elections.  “The Chiago Model for Democrats.”  [Delegates can see progressivism in action, from crime to schools.]   8-19-24
  331. Elections.  “How Kamala Harris Sees the Economy.”  By Michael J. Boskin.  [Her proposals would lead to slower growth, more inflation, and no relief from the debt crisis.]   8-19-24
  332. Elections.  {Vance Flips The ‘Fact Check’ Script.”  By Sierra Dawn McClain and Nicholas Tomaino.  [His slip of the tongue leas CBS’s Margare Brennan to reveal Kamala Harris’s radical view on abortion.]   8-19-24
  333. Elections.  “Here Coes Kamala’s Mortgage Forgiveness.”  By Allysia Finley.  [Her plan to make housing mor ‘affordable’ via subsidies will raise prices and create moral hazard.]   8-19-24
  334. Elections.  “Poor Unwanted Joe Biden.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [Democrats made him an offer he couldn’t refuse, and now there’s joy in Chicago.]   8-20-24
  335. Elections.  “’Greedflation’ is High-Priced Baloney.”  By Phillip S. Coles.  [Sellers always try to raise prices.  The free market constrains their ability to do so.]   8-20-24
  336. Elections.  “The Democratic Party’s Project 2025.”  [Its platform offers a vision where the answer is always government.]   8-20-24
  337. Elections.  “Harris Wages War on U.S. Energy.”  By JD Vance.  [In the name of fighting climate change, she pushes net-zero policies that Would enervate America.]  8-20-24
  338. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Tries to Forget Joe Biden.”  By Gerard Baker.  [‘Now is the time to chart a new way forward,’ she said last week, obscuring her role in charting the old way.]   8-20-24
  339. Elections.  “What Kamala Owes Joe.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [Not much.  The outgoing president poisoned the chalice before handing it on.]   8-21-24
  340. Elections.  “Washington Can Give America a Raise.”  By Alan S. Blinder. [Kamala Harris is right.  The minimum wage is paltry at $7.25 an hour.]   8-21-24
  341. Elections.  “Kamala Horris Said Yes to Inflation.”  By Casey B. Mulligan.  [Her deciding votes on spending boondoggles led directly to the higher prices we pay.]   8-21-24
  342. Elections.  “Democrats and Democratic Norms.”  [There’s a reason voters don’t see Trump as a unique threat.]   8-21-24
  343. Elections.  “The Era of Good Policy Is Over.”  By Amy Laperriere.  [Democrats lurch to the left and Republicans embrace populism. A poorer nation is certain to be the result.]   8-21-24
  344. Elections.  “The Harris Plan to Lowe Your Wages.”  [The VP endorses a 28% corporate tax rate, which is paid by workers.]   8-21-24
  345. Elections.  “Project 2025 Has a Long Heritage.”  By Charles L. Hetherly.  [I oversaw the original 1981 ‘Manifest for Leadership.’ Like today’s version, it was wonky and unsensational.]   8-21-24
  346. Elections.  “Kamala Captured, Trump Defined.”  By Daniel Henninger.  [Democrats teed up the Republican nominee as a bad human being.]  8-22-24
  347. Elections.  “A Bitter Biden Bids Goodbye.”  By Karl Rove.  [His testy farewell speech left Democrats everywhere relieved that he withdrew.]  8-22-24
  348. Elections.  “Can Kamala Harris Make It in the Talkies?”  by Haley Arkes.  [One suspects her of being unable to speak, like Lina Lamont in ‘Singin’ in the Rain.’]   8-22-24
  349. Elections.  “”The Selling of Kamala Harris.”  [The Vice President is the least known presidential nominee in modern times.]   8-22-24
  350. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Rushes to the Center.”  By Roy Teixeira.  [Defending an unpopular record, she can hardly afford o be dragged down by cultural radicalism.]   8-22-24
  351. Elections.  “Tim Waltz Brings ‘Liberated’ Ethnic Studies to Minnesota.”  By Katherine Kersten.  [Beginning in kindergarten, the state’s schoolchildren will be indoctrinated in radical racial ideology.]   8-22-24
  352. Elections.  “Chuck Schumer Shows His Cards.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [The Senate majority leader makes no secret of his plans if Democrats win big.]   8-23-24
  353. Elections.  “Republican Better Get on the Ball.”  By Thomas Sowell.  [They haven’t made the case against Harris.  The clock is ticking.]   8-23-24
  354. Elections.  “Defining ‘Freedom’ Down at the DNC.  [Democrats hijack the word to disguise a coercive agenda.]   8-23-24
  355. Elections.  “Kamala Harris’s Price-Control Delusion.”  By Donald J. Boudreaux  and Richad B. McKenzie.  [Consumers inevitably would end up paying via shortfalls of supply and reductions in quality.]   8-23-24
  356. Elections.  “Joy to the World, Kamala’s Here.”  By Collin Levy.   8-23-24
  357. Elections.  “’All the Struggles Are Connected.’” By Barton Swaim.  [Protesters failed to disrupt this week’s Democratic convention, but the party got the message.]   8-24-24
  358. Elections.  “Kamala Harris’s ‘New Way Forward.’”  [Her speech was devoid of substance, which is an opening for Trump.]   8-24-24
  359. Elections.  “Harris Gets Off to a Strong Start.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [Her DNC speech was fine, but the race remains a toss-up.  It’s all going to come down to policy.]   8-24-24
  360. Elections.  “RFK’s Jr.’s Double-Edged Endorsement.”  8-24-24
  361. Elections.  “Kamala Harris’s ‘Joyful’ War on Entrepreneurs.”   By Allysia Finley.  [When Democrats talk about boosting the middle class, what they mean is government employees.]   8-26-24
  362. Elections.  “Housing Is the Sleeper Issue of the 2024 Campaign.”  By Michael solon.  [Harris promises to double down on Biden policies that have made it more expensive to buy a home.]   8-26-24
  363. Elections.  “Kamala on the Afghan Withdrawal”  [three years later, she calls Biden’s decision ‘courageous and right.’]   8-27-24
  364. Elections.  “Democrats’ Deception May Be Enough to Win Again.”  By Gerard Baker.  [If voters believe the chants of ‘USA! USA!’ they’re in for another four years of far-left governance.]   8-27-24
  365. Elections.  “Trump vs. Kamala’s Coronation.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [After the Steele dossier, politics has been about how elites cling to their power.]   8-28-24
  366. Elections.  “The ‘Tell’ in Zuckerberg’s Letter to Congress.”  By Philip Hamburger.  [He neither admits nor denies that Meta bowed to government censorship pressure.]   8-28-24
  367. Elections.  “There’s No Freedom without Government.”  By Wm A. Galston.  [Natural rights don’t mean much without a mechanism for protecting them.]   8-28-24
  368. Elections.  “Abortion May Not Be a Winner for Democrats This Fall.”  By Jason L. Riley.  [Turnout patterns have changed in ways that could make 2022-23 ballot-measure results deceptive.]   8-28-24
  369. Elections.   “Democrats Jump for ‘Joy’ but Could Head Back to Earth.”  By Julian Epstein.  [How long can the vice president avoid interviews, debates and scrutiny of the Biden-Harris record?]   8-28-24
  370. Elections.  “The Kamala Soap Bubble.”  By Daniel Henninger.  [Trump is trying to be the hard surface that prevents her from floating into office.]   8-29-24
  371. Elections.  “Voters Trust Trump’s Record but Like Harris.”  By Karl Rove.  [He needs to stress the issues and drop the childish insults.  She needs to moderate.]   8-29-24
  372. Elections.  “Harris Gets an Interview Crutch.”  [After ducking the press, she’ll have a chaperone for her chat with CNN.]   8-29-24
  373. Elections.  “If You Like Your Town, Can You Keep It?”  by Robert Showah.  [Kamala Harris appears set to impose federal control over state and local zoning and land-use policy.]   8-29-24
  374. Elections.  “The Biden-Harris Paradox:  A Strong Presidency, No President.”  [Almost all power resides in the executive branch.  Trump would move It back to the White House.]   8-29-24
  375. Elections.  “Ranked Choice May Die in Alaska.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Proponents of the system wage a lawfare campaign against a repeal initiative.]   8-30-24
  376. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Soars Above CNN.”  [The Vice President embraces Bidenomics, if Trump can exploit it.]   8-31-24
  377. Elections.  “Donald Trump’s IVF Entitlement.”  [He wants to mandate fertility coverage, mimicking Obamacare.]   8-31-24
  378. Elections.  “Kamala Harris’s MeJob.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [Is there a place for McDonald’s in the vice president’s opportunity economy?]   9-3-24
  379. Elections.  “Big Brother Is Teaching You.”  By Gerard Baker.  [“’Mind Your own damn business,’  Tim Walz says, belying the Democrats’ didactic attitude.]   9-3-24
  380. Elections.  “Explain the Harris Back Story.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, jr.  [Presidential qualities may emerge, but her path seems that of a routine careerist.]  9-4-24
  381. Elections.  “Kamala’s Economy Will Be Biden’s.”  by Daniel Henninger.  [Trump should ask her if she ever disagreed with the president’s economic policy.]   9-5-24
  382. Elections.  “Who’s Winning the Air and Ground War?”  By Karl Rove.  [Harris’s spending targets Georgia, while Trump is all-in on Pennsylvania.]   9-5-24
  383. Elections.  “Incumbency And the Senate Races.”  By Fred Bauer.  [Challengers in the upper chamber don’t often outperform their party’s nominee for president.]   9-5-24
  384. Elections.  “Sit Down and Tell Us Where You Stand.”  By Bob Greene.  [Kamala Harris’s interview is only the highest-profile example of a curious journalistic cliché.]   9-5-24
  385. Elections.  “Department of Disinformation.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Which is likelier to influence an election, Russian operatives or federal prosecutors??]   9-6-24
  386. Elections. “Harris’s Capital-Gains Tax Disguise.”  [chart: “The Top Federal Tax Rate on Capital Gains, 1954-2024, and Kamala Harris’s Proposed Rate.]   9-6-24
  387. Elections.  “The Pros and Cons of Trump and Harris.”  By Lance Morrow.  [His views may be more in sync with the American mind.  She could represent a future beyond old men.]   9-6-24
  388. Elections.  “An Economic October Surprise Could Roil the 2024 Election.”  By Joseph C. Sternberg.  [Possibilities include a U.S. financial panic, a Chinese recession, and a political crisis across the Atlantic.]   9-6-24
  389. Elections.  “Trump Can Make America Healthy Again.”  By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  [Chronic diseases have reached crisis proportions, and Kamala Harris seems uninterested in the issue.]   9-6-24
  390. Elections.  “Kamala Runs for President as Businesses Flee Her State.”  By Joel Kotkin and Michael Toth.  [She vows an ‘opportunity economy’ but comes from a political culture that is hostile to enterprise.]   9-7-24
  391. Elections.  “Trump and Harris Get Set to Debate.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [He needs to demonstrate that he’s sane, stable and knowledgeable.  She needs a show of good faith.]   9-7-24
  392. Elections.  “Trump’s Best Idea:  Unleashing Elon.  [The entrepreneur wants to run a commission on government efficiency.]  9-9-24
  393. Elections.  “How Not to Make Housing Affordable.”  Kamala Harris could learn from New York City’s failed example.]   9-9-24
  394. Elections.  “Why Trump’s Conviction Can’t Stand.”  By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth Price Foley.  [It rests on an intent to violate a state law that is pre-empted by the Federal Election Campaign Act.]   9-9-24
  395. Elections.  “Press Failure Inflates the Debate.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [Coverage of the Harris campaign is biased.  Worse than that, it’s malpractice.]  9-10-24
  396. Elections.  “How Tim Walz Defines Free Speech.”  [A Minnesota law that muzzles employers gets a legal challenge.]   9-10-24
  397. Elections.  “The Shadow of Biden’s Afghan Debacle.”  [A damning House report reveals details and consequences that the press wants to ignore.]   9-10-24
  398. Elections.  “You Would Pay Harris’s Wealth Tax.”  By Hal Scott and John Gulliver.  [The selloff caused by a levy on unrealized capital gains would devastate ordinary investors and 401(k)s.]   9-10-24
  399. Elections.  “Rent Control Is a Great Destroyer.”  By Amber Gunn.  [The Democrats’ proposal would wreak havoc.  For proof, look at Argentina.]   9-10-24
  400. Elections.  “Kamala Harris’s Ode to Joy on Her Road to Nowhere.”  By Gerard Baker.  [An aggressive marketing rollout and a disastrous few weeks for Trump, and the race is still tied.]   9-10-24
  401. Elections.  “The Other Party Isn’t the Enemy.”  By Don Bacon.  [I support Donald Trump, but I’m an American before I’m a Republican.]   9-10-24
  402. Elections.  “The ‘Collusion’ Blunder.”  By Holman W. Jenkins.  [The U.S. has served itself badly by trying to blame Russia for Trumpism.]   9-11-24
  403. Elections.  “How to Break – and Fix – Housing Markets.”  By John Gibbs.  [Housing prices are too high.  Harris will push them higher.]   9-11-24
  404. Elections.  “Here Comes the $2 Trillion Deficit.”   9-11-24
  405. Elections.  “Why Americans Are Sour on the Economy.”  [They have good reason to be, as the latest Census data reveal.]  9-11-24
  406. Elections.  “Is the 2024 Election Over?”  by Daniel Henninger.  [Trump has a problem with communication.  Harris has a character problem.  It isn’t over.]   9-12-24
  407. Elections.  “A Catastrophic Debate for Trump.”  By Karl Rove.  [He was angry and fixated on the past, and he failed to define Harris or her policies.]   9-12-24
  408. Elections.  “Trump Lets Harris Off the Hook.”  [He let her rattle him, as he failed to make her defend her policies.]   9-12-24
  409. Elections. “Why Trump Is the Abortion Moderate.”  9-12-24
  410. Elections.  “Harris Tells a Fracking Howler.”  [She takes credit for oil production that Biden has tried to limit.]   9-12-24
  411. Elections.  “Will I Have to Vote for Donald Trump?”  by Alan M. Dershowitz.  [I’ve left the Democratic Pary, but I don’t like the alternative.  Here’s how Harris can win me over.]   9-12-24
  412. Elections.  “Welfare Is What’s Eating the Budget.”  By Phil Gramm and Jodey Arrington.  [Means-tested programs, not Medicare and Social Security, are behind today’s massive debt.]   9-12-24
  413. Elections.  “Knows and Unknowns of the Harris-Trump Debate.”  [Can you believe everything they say?  Obviously not, but that isn’t the point.]   9-12-24
  414. Elections.  “Kamala’s Undebatable Problem.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [Pundits were sure she easily beat Trump, but they’re not who she needs to convince.]  9-13-24
  415. Elections.  “ABC Bias Precluded a Fair Debate.”  By Mark Penn and Andrew Stein.  9-13-24  [“ABC undermined the system for everyone.”]   9-13-24
  416. Elections.  “The Debate’s Inadvertent Israel Lesson.”  By Elliot Kaufman.  [The questions and answers showed everything that’s wrong with the way we discuss the Middle East.]   9-13-24
  417. Elections.  “RFK Jr. Would Have Made JFK Proud.”  By Andy Puzder.  [President Kennedy’s economic policies put him closer to Trump than Harris.]   9-13-24
  418. Elections.  “All the President’s Legal Defeats.”  [Biden’s agencies keep violating the law and losing in court:  Federal Communications Commission.  Department of Education.  Environmental Protections Agency.  Federal Trade Commission.  Securities and Exchange Commission. ]   9-13-24
  419. Elections.  “Can Eric Hovde End Tammy Baldwin’s Streak?”  by Barton Swaim.  [The Wisconsin Democrat has never lost an election.  Her challenger is behind but in striking distance.]   9-14-24
  420. Elections.  “A Decisive but Shallow Debate Win for Harris.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [Trump showed he isn’t up to the job.  But her lack of substance won’t escape the voters’ notice.]   9-14-24
  421. Elections.  “Donald Trump and Loomer Tunes.”  ‘Why is the former President hanging with a 9/11 conspiracist?]   9-14-24
  422. Elections.  “Kamala Misses Out on the Golden Age of the Interview.”  By Max Raskin.  [Donald Trump went on a podcast and discussed cocaine addiction.  His opponent plays it safe.]   9-14-24
  423. Elections.  “But Can the Vice President Handle the Presidency.?”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [Donald Trump’s deficiencies aren’t Kamala Harris’s qualification s.]   9-14-24
  424. Elections.  “When Harris Defied Democracy.”  By Andy Kessler.  [She refused to defend a California ballot measure that rejected same-sex marriage.]   9-16-24
  425. Elections.  “Donald Trump in the Cross-Hairs Again.]   [A second assassination attempt calls for Biden-level protection.]   9-16-24
  426. Elections.  “If Taylor Swift Had Endorsed Donald Trump.”  By Allysia Finley.  [Democrats would scorn her business savvy, cap her ticket prices, and fret over her huge carbon footprint.]   9-16-24
  427. Elections.  “It’s Too Close to the Election for the Fed to Cut Rates.”  By Michael Toth.  [There’s a reason the central bank almost never makes changes in the final months of a campaign.]   9-16-24
  428. Elections.  “Harris Is the Safer Economic Choice.”  By Jason Furman.  [Both candidates have bad ideas, but Trump’s are worse – and likelier to find support in Congress.] 9-17-24   (Mr. Furman was chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Barak Obama.]
  429. Elections.  “Lessons for Kamala Harris From the Women Who Won.”  By Gerard Baker.  [Female leaders are held to a double standard – and so far the ones who’ve risen have all been conservative.]   9-17-24
  430. Elections.  “Killing Trump?”  by Daniel Henninger.  [The Democrats should answer for their role in the toxic politics of America.]   9-19-24
  431. Elections.  “Trump Acts as if He Has Time to Waste.”   By Karl Rove.  [He attacks Harris but can’t bring himself to focus on anything of consequence.]   9-19-24
  432. Elections.  “George Wallace Foreshadowed Trump.”  By Lance Morrow.  [The Alabama governor also had a gift for tapping into middle America’s resentment of ‘the elites.’]   9-19-24
  433. Elections. “The Economy Was Roaring When Biden Took Office.”  By Eugene Scalla.  [Unemployment already was lower than at any time in Obama’s first term.]   9-19-24
  434. Elections.  “The Teamsters’ Lesson for Trump.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel. [The rank and file support him.  There’s no need to pander to union leaders.]  9-20-24
  435. Elections.  “Trump Repeals His Own Tax Reform.”  [He’s proposing to dismantle his biggest economic success.]   9-20-24
  436. Elections.  “Hillary Clinton’s New Speech Code.”  [She says spreading disinformation should be a crime.]  9-20-24
  437. Elections.  “The Case for Trump’s Tariffs.”  By John Paulson.  [Combined with tax cuts and deregulation, they’ll ensure that America’s economy booms again.]   9-20-24
  438. Elections.  “Montana May Decide the Senate Majority.”  By Faith bottom.  [Ex-Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy is trying to defeat Jon Tester – and Chuck Schumer’s money.]   9-21-24
  439. Elections.  “Kamala Harris’s Empty Promise on Fracking.”  By Arthur Stewart.  [In 2019 she said se would ban it, but now she says she won’t.  Pennsylvanians are right to be skeptical.]   9-21-24
  440. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Is an Artless Dodger.”  By Peggy Noonan.  [She evades every question of substance, leaving voters a choice between Awful and Empty.]   9-21-24
  441. Elections.  “The America First Divide:  Protectionism vs. Libertarianism.]  by Vivek Ramaswamy.  [On immigration, trade and the regulatory state, deep divisions underlie the Trump coalition.]   9-21-24
  442. Elections.  “The Biden-Harris Economic Success.”  By Janet L. Yellen.  9-23-24  (Ms. Yellen is current U.S. Treasury secretary.)
  443. Elections.  “How Freedom Faded on Biden’s Watch.”  [His successor will inherit a far more dangerous world.]   9-23-24
  444. Elections.  “Trump’s Price Controls on Credit Cards.”   9-23-24
  445. Elections.  “Trump Can Take Heart:  Mark Zandi Says Harris Will Win.”  By Allysia Finley.  [The Moody’s Analytics chief economist says she’s on a glide path.  He’s been wrong before – and often.]   9-23-24
  446. Elections.  “Contrary to Media Myth, U.S. Urban Crime Rates Are Up.”  By Jeffrey H. Anderson.  [The FBI’s flawed statistics hide the disturbing results of the defund-the-police movement since 2020.]   9-23-24
  447. Elections.  “Bob Casey’s Façade of Moderation.”  By Wm. McGurn.  [Pennsylvanians may see through his claim to be a pro-fracking economic centrist.]   9-24-24
  448. Elections.  “Ryan Routh’s Political Motives.”   9-24-24
  449. Elections.  “How America Wins this November.”  By Mike Pence.  [Down-ballot Republicans should expose Harris’s failures and stay their own conservative course.]   9-24-24
  450. Elections.  “Trumponomics May Be More Oprah than Reagan.”  By Gerard Baker.  [In his first term, the good policies outweighed the foolish ones.  Don’t expect the same in a second.]   9-24-24
  451. Elections.  “The Harris Plan for Housing Shortages.”  By Edward Pinto.  [Her plan would stimulate demand, not supply, and redistribute wealth to the sellers of existing homes.]   9-24-24
  452. Elections.  “JD Vance’s Working-Class Pander.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [Like farm programs, the urge for factory-worker welfarism has long been bipartisan.]   9-25-24
  453. Elections.  “Trump’s Fish Stories About Cats and Dogs.”  By Wm. A. Galston.  [Ohio’s Republican governor refutes the rumors about Haitian migrants eating pets.]   9-25-24
  454. Elections.  “Saving Is for Suckers Under Harris’s Plan.”   By Eddie Benton.  [Her proposed tax on unrealized gains will eventually hit your retirement account.]   9-25-24
  455. Elections.  “A Deere in Trump’s Headlights.”  [A tariff is the former president’s solution to every problem these days.”   9-25-24
  456. Elections.  “Harris Wants the Filibuster Gone.”   9-25-24
  457. Elections.  “Biden Fades but Bureaucrats Don’t.”  by Daniel Henninger.  [One of the campaign’s most important issues is the vast power of the government.]  9-26-24
  458. Elections.  “How Biden Keeps Helping Trump.”  By Karl Rove.  [The president plans to annoy voters by touring the nation to tout his record.]   9-26-24
  459. Elections.  “Harris’s Uncertainty and the Risk of Recession.”  By Kevin Hassett and Cale Clingenpeel.  [The vice president is a question mark.  Markets understand what to expect from Trump’s policies.]   9-26-24
  460. Elections.  “Nine Words for a Trump Victory.”  By Kimbrley A. Strassel.  [The GOP needs to rediscover the simple truth that government is the problem.]    9-27-24
  461. Elections.  “Harri’s Plan Is Bidenomics II.”  [More spending, more taxes, more regulation, more government.]   9-27-24
  462. Elections.  “Why Harris and Starmer Are coming for Your Investments.”  By Joseph C. Sternberg.  [Policy errors suppressed wages and inflated asset values.  Now politicians want to tap your savings.]   9-27-24
  463. Elections.  “The Fight for the Keystone State.”  By Kyle Peterson.  [Pennsylvania lives up to its nickname as Trump works to motivate his fans and Harris tries to prove that she’s no ideologue.]   9-28-24
  464. Elections.  “Harris Spins a New Border Tale.” [Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.]   9-28-24
  465. Elections.  “Who’s Afraid of the Al Smith Dinner?”  by Peggy Noonan.  [Kamala Harris says she won’t go.  Reversing that decision is the smartest thing she can do.]   9-28-24
  466. Elections.  “New Doubts About Trump’s Fraud Verdict.”   9-30-24
  467. Elections.  “How JD Vance Wins the Debate.”  By Wm McGurn.  [He has to focus on the Biden record and make Tim Walz and Kamala Harris own it.]   10-1-24
  468. Elections.  “A Medicare Election Bribe for Seniors.”  [CMS raises subsidies for insurers to reduce premiums pre-Nov. 5.]   10-1-24
  469. Elections.  “The Teamsters Make a Lonely Stan for Democracy.”  By Jonathan Berry.  [The union declines to back Kamala Harris while its counterparts ignore the views of their members.]   10-1-24
  470. Elections.  “’Collusion’ and World War III.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [Scholars are waking up to a feeble U.S. establishment’s Russia Botch.]   10-2-24
  471. Elections.  “Biden’s Longshoremen Strike.”  [He wanted more power for Big Labor.  He’ got it – and economic harm.]   10-2-24
  472. Elections.  “Harris’s Apprenticeship Plan Is a Giveaway to Unions.]  by Jason L. Riley.  [Trump had a far better approach in 2017.  If only he had the discipline to make the point to voters.]  10-2-24
  473. Elections.  “More Vance-Walz, Please.”  By Daniel Henninger.  [The vice-presidential nominees shocked the nation by being civil and reasonable.]   10-3-24
  474. Elections.  “Butterflies Get a Vote in the 2024 Election.”  By Karl Rove.  [In a race this close, small events in key states could decide the outcome.]   10-3-24
  475. Elections.  “Vance Sells Trump Better Than Trump.”  [The VP candidates were both better than their running mates.]   10-3-24
  476. Elections.  “6 More Years of ‘Punxsutawney Bob’?”  by Kyle Peterson.  [Pennsylvania’s Democratic Sen. Casey leads the polls, but Dave McCormick is putting up a real fight.]   10-3-24
  477. Elections. “Jack Smith’s October Surprise.”  By Kimberley A. Strassel.  [It’s impossible not to suspect the special counsel’s filing is politically motivated.]   10-4-24
  478. Elections.  “Do Americans Really Want a ‘Politics of Joy.’”  By Peggy Noonan.  [The slogan didn’t work for Hubert Humphrey in 1968.  If seems tone-deaf in the troubled world of 2024.]   10-5-24
  479. Elections.  “Thanks for Nothing, Say Voers in 2024.”  By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.  [It’s hard to exaggerate this poor moment in U.S. history, largely authored by Joe Biden.]   10-5-24
  480. Elections.  “Why Do the Young Vote Left?”  by Andy Kessler.  [Socialist teachers lead them to think of government as a free-money tree.]  10-7-24
  481. Elections.  “The Truth About Amber Thruman’s Death.”  By Nicholas Tomaino.  [Harris and Wals exploit a tragedy to further a political narrative about ‘Trump abortion bans.’]   10-7-24
  482. Elections.  “Kamala Harris Is Eyeing Your 401(k).”  by Jeff Yass and Stephen Moore.  [Hiking the corporate tax would leave less of your investments.]  10-8-24
  483. Elections.  “The Abortion Distortion Campaign.”  [As Republicans move to the middle, Democrats twist their views.]   10-8-24
  484. Elections.  “Can Kamala Harris Win by Standing for Nothing?”  by Gerard Baker.  [If Bernie Sanders and Dick Cheney can agree, they can’t possibly be wrong- or right, for that matter.]      10-8-24