Democrats are embracing Kamala Harris to square off against Donald Trump in the country’s presidential contest. Now that Trump is the oldest candidate ever to be nominated for president, Harris will not have the same headwinds Joe Biden did on age. Unfortunately, she is likely to face some headwinds of her own because of her … Read more
Joe Biden will seek to restore the place of science in policymaking. Science leadership will need to be reshaped to achieve this result. Thus, the incoming president should nominate someone to head the White House science office who has a background in the life sciences and is also a woman or a person of color. … Read more
The GOP has succeeded in unfairly packing the courts with conservative judges who are out-of-step with the American people. Joe Biden’s surprising counterpunch with a bipartisan commission might be just the right thing after all, despite criticism from the left. Read more here …
Kamala Harris’s selection as vice-president sets a new standard for what it means for a political party to balance its ticket. Ticket balancing for the parties used to be largely geographic or ideological in nature. Now for the Democrats it has come to mean greater demographic balance — namely, selecting a ticket that looks more closely like … Read more