Essential Politics: Kamala Harris enters a supermarket — and a security bubble
Print This is the March 3, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox three times a week. In the early 2000s, a friend in Florida shared a wild story about a night she spent in a closed Publix supermarket, where she joined a volunteer cast of “shoppers” so that Michael Jackson could spend his birthday filling his grocery cart like a regular person. I thought about my friend’s surreal encounter last week when I passed through a temporary metal detector in a Washington, D.C., grocery store, shortly before a visit by Vice...