Kamala Harris

Image of the Week: For the first time, women occupied both key seats of power during a joint session of the United States Congress

Debra Thompson: In many ways, Harris is the embodiment of white conservatives’ fear that the country is on the precipice of irreversible demographic and political changes

Watch the Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris live right here

Andray Domise: It wasn’t last week’s Trump/Biden debacle, but the surreal VP debate reflected almost nothing of the world outside the debate hall

Kamala Harris combined assertiveness and ease, but both she and Mike Pence wriggled out of key questions. It was all so blessedly normal.

Paul Wells: There aren’t a lot of ways to politely defend the president. Enter the interrupting, truth-inverting funhouse mirror Mike Pence.

Scott Gilmore: The pundits theorized this crucial debate did not likely change many minds. It’s possible that women saw it differently.

Paul Wells: The job of a president Joe Biden would be leading the cleanup crew after a vandal. At stake: the entire American project.

Watch the VP debate right here at 9 p.m. ET

Andray Domise: Harris’s status as running mate to Joe Biden is indeed historic. But representation does not imply loyalty or any degree of respect to Black and brown communities beyond the superficial.

Image of the Week: The scene of Biden’s momentous call with his veep pick screams normalcy. Its implications are anything but.

It’s the time of an election year when you hear ‘it’s just not my time’ and ‘love will prevail’ and other doleful refrains