No time like the present: America’s unprecedented election

The ballot question in the 2020 United States presidential election is democracy versus authoritarianism. Of course, Kamala Harris’ birth certificate has become an issue.

Clockwise from top left, U.S. President Donald Trump, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Democratic vice-president pick Kamala Harris, and Vice-President Mike Pence. Flickr photographs by Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

August 19, 2020

If you’re a columnist writing regularly about U.S. politics, one of your lazy, go-to tropes is the Schoolhouse Rock song I’m Just a Bill (on Capitol Hill). But since this is a column not about tactical intractability and how...

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