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Vice President Kamala Harris has made an expanded child tax credit central to her campaign, and former President Donald J. Trump boasts, “I doubled the child tax credit.” With a quick look, voters might think the child-rearing subsidy the rare matter on which the rival candidates agree. It is anything …

When two of Vice President Kamala Harris’s closest advisers arrived in New York last month, they were seeking advice. The Democratic nominee was preparing to give her most far-reaching economic speech, and Tony West, Ms. Harris’s brother-in-law, and Brian Nelson, a longtime confidant, wanted to know how the city’s powerful …

On its journey to the North Sea, the River Thames runs through Henley, a picturesque middle-class town about 35 miles west of London. The river is central to the town’s identity, which is known for its annual royal regatta and for being the location of the first boat race between …