Kamala Harris
The Lede
With Time Running Out, Kamala Harris Makes a Push for the Latino Vote
In battleground states, Latino voters could tip the balance of the election. Is the Vice-President doing enough to cultivate them?
By Stephania Taladrid
Comment
The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia
Part of the intrigue has been which movement would run out of steam first: Trump’s MAGA, through its failures, or Obama’s liberalism, through its successes.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The Political Scene Podcast
Will Kamala Harris’s Debate Win Be Enough to Move the Needle?
Vinson Cunningham and Clare Malone break down the first, and perhaps only, Trump-Harris debate.
The Lede
Donald Trump Had a Really, Really Bad Debate
Kamala Harris, veteran prosecutor, proved beyond a reasonable doubt on Tuesday night that her opponent will always take the bait.
By Susan B. Glasser
The Lede
How Kamala Harris Can Beat Donald Trump on the Debate Stage
In the Vice-President’s previous debate triumphs, she did not conquer her opponents so much as she permitted them to lose.
By Jessica Winter
The Financial Page
Donald Trump’s New “Voodoo Economics”
The former President’s tax plan would cost the government trillions of dollars. Tariffs and Elon Musk will pay for everything, he says.
By John Cassidy
The Lede
Kamala Harris Makes Her Case Beyond Big Cities
At campaign stops in southeastern Georgia and New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate tried to win voters in counties outside her party’s strongholds.
By Emily Witt
The Political Scene Podcast
Will Harris Get Trump to Self-Destruct at the Debate?
“The stakes are genuinely huge,” Evan Osnos says. “As we’ve learned this year, debates can be actually decisive.”
Q. & A.
How Kamala Harris’s Coalition Changes the Race for Congress
The elections analyst Dave Wasserman assesses Black support for Donald Trump and explains a state-level primary that’s a national bellwether.
By Isaac Chotiner
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Can Red-Baiting Save Trump’s Flailing Campaign?
On “Comrade Kamala” and the ex-President’s last-century approach to winning in 2024.
By Susan B. Glasser
The Political Scene Podcast
What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?
How the once narrow term has come to be weaponized as “informational terrorism.”
The Lede
Kamala Harris’s Political Calculus Takes Shape in First Major Interview
The Vice-President and her advisers clearly believe that being accused of flip-flopping is a lesser threat to her campaign than being cast as too radical.
By John Cassidy
The Lede
Kamala Harris’s Gamble
Four years ago, the Democrats made big promises to address racial and economic injustice. Will voters remember?
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Political Scene Podcast
How Much Is “Being Cool” Actually Worth in Politics?
The New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry dissects how Vice-President Harris became a “Kamalanomenon.”
The Financial Page
Kamala Harris and the New Democratic Economic Paradigm
At their Convention in Chicago last week, the Democrats looked like a party that is unusually united in its goals.
By John Cassidy
Comment
Can Kamala Harris Keep Up the Excitement Through Election Day?
At the Democratic National Convention, the sense of relief was as overwhelming as the general euphoria—but the campaign against Donald Trump has only just begun.
By Jonathan Blitzer
The Political Scene Podcast
Kamala Harris’s “Different Kind of Hope Campaign”
“The enthusiasm is real, but I don’t think it’s so much around an agenda of Harris’s as much as it is around an agenda of stopping Trump,” Susan B. Glasser says.
By Susan B. Glasser and Evan Osnos
The Lede
Kamala Harris’s “Freedom” Campaign
Democrats’ years-long efforts to reclaim the word are cresting in this year’s Presidential race.
By Peter Slevin
Fault Lines
What Kamala Harris May Have to Do Next
The D.N.C. was remarkably well orchestrated, but unscripted tests remain.
By Jay Caspian Kang
Letter from Biden’s Washington
The Speech of Kamala Harris’s Lifetime
The Democratic Presidential nominee leaves Chicago with her party united, but Donald Trump is not yet defeated.
By Susan B. Glasser