The momentum for Harris continued this week, as the Trump campaign struggled to come up with a counter-message. On Wednesday, Trump was interviewed at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, and reverted to his Birther political roots: He challenged Harris’ racial identity, professing not to understand how she could be both Indian and Black.
The first featured post will examine what he could possibly have been thinking and what audience his remarks were aimed at. Because his position is so hard to take seriously, I’ll include a certain amount of humor, and I’ll point you to an endearing Harris video from 2019 that Trump thinks proves his point. (I hope you’ll watch it. At a minimum you’ll learn a good onion-dicing technique.) “The Unfathomable Mystery of Biracial Americans” should post around 9 or so EDT.
For weeks I’ve been hoping to write a series of issue-oriented articles, but events keep outrunning my ability to cover them. I particularly want to examine the issues where the Trump campaign claims an advantage: inflation and immigration. This week I’ll finally get my inflation article out. “Where Did Inflation Come From?” should appear by 11.
Even with two featured posts, the weekly summary has a lot to cover: the prisoner swap with Russia, the rising tensions between Israel and Iran, Venezuela’s post-election crisis, J.D. Vance’s continuing problems, the Trump/Egypt investigation, Harris catching Trump in the polls, and a few more things. I’ll aim to get that out by noon.
The Weekly Sift 
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For a future article about immigration, I hope you will consider this economics perspective: When a child is young they take a lot of societal resources. Someone must care for that child, educate them, feed them, give them housing and transportation and emotional support. And that child is not contributing anything back to society until they are an adult and start to work. What if, we could export the expense of raising a child and our country could benefit from the work the adult does? That’s what we get when we support immigration. We get an adult who is ready to work and enrich our country and we didn’t have to spend the time and effort and resources on the human capital startup costs. Conservative immigration policies are harming our country. We should instead be working on integrating immigrants into the United States.