Making the click-through worthwhile: Yet another member of the Kennedy family aspires to the title “Senator,” prompting the question of whether both the voters and the Kennedys would be better off taking a break from each other; China starts pumping out disinformation on Twitter and Facebook; and a new poll indicates that support for Kamala Harris has rapidly collapsed.
For their Own Good, the Kennedys Should Stop Running for Office
You would think one family couldn’t suffer so many untimely deaths, generation after generation. At the beginning of the month, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, died of an apparent drug overdose at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. She was enrolled at Boston College, where she was vice president of the College Democrats, and had written about struggles with depression and mental illness for the student newspaper at Deerfield Academy, a private preparatory school in Massachusetts, in 2016.
In the wake of her tragic death, news broke that Rep. Joe Kennedy ...