What the Right Gets Wrong About Kamala Harris
Plus: The Longshoremen Are Making the Wrong Demands
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JILL LAWRENCE: What the Right Gets Wrong About Kamala Harris
THIS IS HOW IT’S DONE, I THOUGHT, as I listened to Republican stalwart Liz Cheney introduce Kamala Harris in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican party.
“I have never voted for a Democrat. But this year I am proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” Cheney said at Ripon College. “Vice President Harris is standing in the breach at a critical moment in our nation’s history. . . . I know that she loves our country and I know that she will be a president for all Americans. As a conservative, as a patriot, as a mother, as someone who reveres our Constitution, I am honored to join her in this urgent cause.”
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BRENT ORRELL: The Longshoremen Are Making the Wrong Demands
THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN’S ASSOCIATION ended a three-day strike last Thursday after reaching a deal with a consortium of port operators for a large wage increase for the the 47,000 dockworkers, phased in over the next few years. The deal gives both sides until mid-January to settle the remaining questions—including how and whether the dockworker jobs may be automated. Longshoreman union president Harold Daggett has demanded “absolute airtight language that there will be no automation or semiautomation.”
CATHY YOUNG: Bernard Henri-Lévy on Humanity and War After Oct. 7th
BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY, THE EMINENT FRENCH AUTHOR, filmmaker, and public intellectual illustrious enough to be known as “BHL” in his country and even outside it, has devoted much of his recent work to chronicles of places at war: Bosnia, Kurdistan, Syria, Ukraine. These chronicles have won him both admirers and detractors who regard him as a glorified crisis tourist. Yet watching, for instance, Lévy’s 2022–23 documentary film trilogy about Ukraine’s battle for its freedom—Why Ukraine?, Slava Ukraini, and Glory to the Heroes—it is difficult not to be struck by a sense of the filmmaker’s very genuine passion for his subject. Now, Lévy channels the same passi
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