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Calling Dr Jekyll

David Runciman: What Kamala Harris got wrong, 22 January 2026

107 Days 
by Kamala Harris.
Simon and Schuster, 304 pp., £25, September 2025, 978 1 3985 5791 8
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... the conversation. He was inquisitive and asked me a lot of questions about myself.’Now Kamala Harris has joined the list of those who have been surprised by Trump’s softer side. In 107 Days, her excruciating memoir of her failed campaign to defeat him for the presidency in 2024, she recounts their conversation on 17 September, when she ...

Not a Tough Crowd

Christian Lorentzen: Among the Democrats, 12 September 2024

... the next day.With an extra night to myself before the convention, I returned to the literature of Kamala Harris. Her memoir, The Truths We Hold (2019) – an awkward title, the salience of the line from the Declaration of Independence being that the truths are self-evident, not the holding of them – is a campaign book, written in collaboration with a ...

The Debate

Eliot Weinberger, 26 September 2024

... Rubio’, ‘Low Energy Jeb Bush’, ‘Birdbrain Nikki Haley’ doomed them in the primaries. But Kamala Harris had him flummoxed. He tried recycling some of the old Hillary Clinton epithets – ‘Crooked Kamala’, ‘Lyin’ Kamala’ – but they didn’t stick, since ...

The Democrats’ Defeat

Adam Tooze, 21 November 2024

... been spent on a US election, to so little avail. For all Trump’s hobnobbing with billionaires, Harris had a large advantage in campaign funding.The usual debate about the future of the Democrats has begun. The party’s left-wing gadfly, Bernie Sanders, has come out with a sharp denunciation of its abandonment of the working class. Historical associations ...

Short Cuts

Deborah Friedell: Fox News, 5 November 2020

... If he becomes president, the country will actually be run by the ‘radical socialists’ Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who intend, Laura Ingraham says, ‘to punish anyone who gets in the way of their cultural revolution’.If the Democrats prevail, Fox News warns, Americans will be ruled by an ‘unholy alliance’ between ‘the ...

Warthog Dynamism

David Bromwich, 19 November 2020

... in the insomniac hours, the former vice president had a convalescent look.What possessed the Biden-Harris campaign to approach their victory as a foregone conclusion may never be known: it seems, at any rate, to have been a tight operation, unlikely to extrude the usual mass of memoirs. Kamala Harris might have been ...

The Family Biden

Christian Lorentzen, 6 January 2022

... run for a second term in 2024, at the age of 81, or be replaced by a pundit’s dream ticket of Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg. The spectre of Trump remains, at least in the obsessive minds of those who believe the vandalism done to the Capitol on 6 January was a catastrophe on a par with 9/11. Asked about reports that Trump knowingly exposed him to ...

At the V&A

Gazelle Mba: Africa Fashion, 1 December 2022

... She was surrounded by a group of Democratic congressmen and women, including Chuck Schumer and Kamala Harris, all similarly dressed and looking, as one commentator put it, like a Wakandan chess set. The occasion was the introduction of the Justice in Policing Act: the group proceeded to kneel, backs bent, for a minute’s silence in order ...

Hate Burst Out

Kim Phillips-Fein: Chicago, 1968, 15 August 2024

The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 
by Luke A. Nichter.
Yale, 370 pp., £35, October 2023, 978 0 300 25439 6
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... model for Joe Biden’s attempt to keep his legacy intact – though Nixon’s triumph might give Kamala Harris pause. (Johnson claimed that he couldn’t focus on Vietnam at the same time as he was campaigning to retain the presidency: ‘I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes, or to any duties ...

I need money

Christian Lorentzen: Biden Tries Again, 10 September 2020

Yesterday’s Man: The Case against Joe Biden 
by Branko Marcetic.
Verso, 288 pp., £12.99, March 2020, 978 1 83976 028 0
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... desegregation was called outside the South) in Delaware in the 1970s, as his future running mate, Kamala Harris, pointed out in a primary debate (though it was later revealed that they were both in favour of the half-measure of voluntary busing). In 1977 he moved from the Senate’s banking committee to the judiciary committee, where he focused on crime ...

Short Cuts

Adam Shatz: The Four-Year Assault, 21 January 2021

... the mob is infinitely cynical, but it also reflects the shifting balance of power. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election, but the moment belongs to Abrams.8 ...

Commencing Demagogues and Ending Tyrants

Colin Kidd: What’s wrong with the electoral college, 24 October 2024

How to Steal a Presidential Election 
by Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman.
Yale, 162 pp., £25, April, 978 0 300 27079 2
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... to be ‘stopped midstream’. Lessig and Seligman’s book appeared months before Vice President Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket. But, this time, if the result is closely contested or perceived somehow to have been perverted by sharp practice, Harris’s role at the congressional tally on 6 ...

Exquisite Americana

Tom Stevenson: Trump and US Power, 5 December 2024

... is partly because so many of the more accomplished practitioners have migrated to the Democrats. Kamala Harris was endorsed by most of George W. Bush’s national security team, including Michael Hayden, James Clapper, Robert Blackwill and Richard Haass – a who’s who of the foreign policy establishment. This has led to some barrel-scraping on the ...

Hey man, we’re out of runway

Christian Lorentzen: Bad Times for Biden, 18 July 2024

The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future 
by Franklin Foer.
Penguin, 432 pp., £24, September 2023, 978 1 101 98114 6
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The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House 
by Chris Whipple.
Scribner, 409 pp., £12.99, December 2023, 978 1 9821 0644 7
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The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy after Trump 
by Alexander Ward.
Portfolio, 354 pp., £28.99, February, 978 0 593 53907 1
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... of staff until after the 2022 midterms and a Democratic Party lifer. He has plenty to say about Kamala Harris, whom Biden himself calls ‘a work in progress’. Foer writes that Klain ‘assumed the role of Harris’s guide’ butstruggled to productively help her. He felt ...

Diary

Patricia Lockwood: America is a baby, 3 December 2020

... candidate is hardly necessary; after the primaries, he was no one’s candidate, really. The Biden-Harris ticket was like being handed one of Gary Larson’s Cow Tools and being screamed at for not knowing what to do with it. ‘Look at him,’ I murmured during the debates. ‘He looks like God’s grandpa. He looks like he just got a Botox injection into the ...

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