Kamala Harris has good vibes. Time for some good policies

But vibes can take you only so far. Ms Harris and her running-mate, Tim Walz, have been criticised for failing to lay out concrete proposals in their recent television interview, which a New York Times opinion piece branded “vacuous”. Over the next nine weeks Ms Harris needs to back up the V-word with the P-word: policy. She needs proposals that do not just sound like standard Democratic talking points, in order to rebut the charge that her vibes are phoney, that she’s just another “San Francisco Democrat”.