J. D. Vance

The dispute involves Catholic precepts on immigration and charity—which the Church has administered for decades through U.S.A.I.D.

“Hillbilly Elegy” made him famous, and his denunciations of Donald Trump brought him liberal fans. Now, as a Vice-Presidential candidate, he’s remaking his image as the heir to the MAGA movement.

Many of Donald Trump’s economic promises have come to pass, including in the home town of his running mate—they’ve just been enacted by Democrats.

Trump’s attack on the last election is still the big issue in this one.

Clare Malone and Vinson Cunningham give a play-by-play of the “surprisingly policy-oriented” Vice-Presidential showdown.

But the matchup came down to Tim Walz’s record in Minnesota versus his opponent’s unfailing defense of Donald Trump.

Duelling visions of fatherhood will define the Vice-Presidential debate.

Both candidates speak about what it is like to lead nationally, but also what it is like to live a life locally.

The former President’s appeal has always been his sui-generis persona and politics—take him as he is—but, this year, the campaign seems more devoted to fan service than anything else.

How the past few weeks have “kind of shifted” Viles Dorsainvil’s idea about the country.

What can be learned from the collisions between pets and politics this election season?

Vinson Cunningham and Clare Malone break down the first, and perhaps only, Trump-Harris debate.

The artist celebrates the subjects of J. D. Vance’s disparaging comments.

Like many memoirs, J. D. Vance’s book misses a few details, some of which complicate the story upon which he has based much of his politics.

Pronatalism has much in common with some of Vance’s views: it typically combines concerns about falling birth rates with anti-immigration and anti-feminist ideas.

“Vice-Presidents might not make a Presidency, but they sure can break a lot of things,” Amy Davidson Sorkin says.

The Vice-Presidential candidate’s memoir reveals the roots of his ideas about parents, children, and who should run the country.

How might the Republican V.P. nominee’s conversion to conservative Catholicism influence his political world view?

At the R.N.C., Trump’s running mate proclaimed that the days of “catering to Wall Street” were over. But does Vance have the power, or the inclination, to thwart the corporate wings of his party?

In Milwaukee, Donald Trump’s choice of J. D. Vance as Vice-President was seen as a breakthrough for the young conservative movement, which blames élite institutions for the destruction of the American working class.