Kat Abughazaleh on how the Harris campaign courted creators and the ethics of influencing.

Commentary around the first Harris-Trump debate focused on Harris’s impressive performance. But both candidates accepted dangerous right-wing premises on climate, immigration, economics, and foreign policy.

No matter how many appearances or speeches politicians make in Black Churches, they cannot simply wish away their records in order to win Black votes.

Contrasting my Florida DMV with Starbucks.

These are not our dads or aunts. We are electing a head of state who will wield immense power and control a massive nuclear arsenal. “Policy” is not peripheral or dispensable, it’s the only thing that really matters. 

Graffiti is a visible reminder that, despite everything, people are still struggling along, making their mark. That humanity remains, in all its messy glory, despite every attempt to flatten and sanitize it away.

Besides being obvious attacks on public health and personal freedom of expression, mask bans give police even more power to use violence and the threat of imprisonment to address political and social problems.

Could the example of Tim Walz’s Minnesota break Democrats out of their learned helplessness?