Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris made no mistake about the opportunity before her last Tuesday night in her televised debate with Republican opponent Donald Trump. She was a woman with a plan, and she executed it flawlessly.

I’d call this one a plus for Harris when it came to image and a plus for Trump on issues. In other words, a draw.

Universal school choice is an untested idea that will further divide American students. It is an attempt to throw out public schooling as we know it, without long-term evidence of higher student achievement.

He insisted on the withdrawal despite ample warnings from all sides, with the bull-headed stubbornness of someone who is often wrong but never in doubt. To paraphrase Lincoln, Biden was the author and the finisher of the debacle in Afghanistan.

Donald Trump has administered a kind of political shock therapy to the part of the voting public that hasn’t been watching closely. Lest he regain possession of the nuclear codes, intervention is called for, preferably at the polls.

China seeks to disintegrate all of its adversaries, from immediate neighbors to potential economic competitors. The U.S., however, is target No. 1.