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ALT Vintage photo of a little boy in a bonnet, sitting in a classic car under dappled sunlight.
ALT Black and white portrait of German Jewish woman, Else Ury, featuring a thoughtful expression, wearing a blouse under a dark jacket.
ALT Black and white portrait of German Jewish woman, Else Ury, dressed in a high-collared blouse adorned with lace.
ALT Book cover for "Nesthäkchen im Kinderheim" by Else Ury, featuring an illustration of children playing at a beach, with one child in a blue swimsuit running towards a beach ball.
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ALT The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers.
ALT But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it sho
ALT The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass,
ALT Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
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ALT An image of a to-do list titled 'Kamala Harris' to-do list': Cut taxes for more than 100 million Americans. Strengthen Medicare and protect Social Security. Work with private sector to build 3 million new homes to increase housing supply and bring down costs. Pass the bipartisan border security bill to strengthen and secure our border. Restore reproductive freedom. Legalize recreational marijuana. Cap the cost of insulin at $35 per month and prescription drug costs at $2,000 a year for all Americans. Expand Medicare to cover home care for seniors and people with disabilities. Protect and strengthen the Affordable Care Act. Promote common sense gun safety laws to protect Americans from gun violence. Invest in American manufacturing and clean energy. Expand the startup tax deduction for small businesses by 10x to $50,000. Give families a $6,000 tax credit during the first year of their child’s life. Pass the first-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries and more
ALT "Trump would have an enemies list. I will have a to-do list." Vice President Kamala Harris
