Just as it was in New York, it was a sunny, end-of-summer day in London, one of those pale golden afternoons that seem to hold the last warmth of the season before everything turns. I was heavily pregnant, my body heavy and unfamiliar, and the heat had drained every last ounce of energy from me. I lay down on the sofa in front of the television, letting the low hum of daytime programming wash over me, and within minutes I had slipped into one of those thick, dreamless naps that pregnancy seems to demand. I cannot say what woke me.…

Here is a summarized and humanized 6-paragraph exploration of Karoline Leavitt’s critique of the Democratic economic agenda, framed around the charge of “false economic promises.” — When Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, stepped up to the podium and accused Democrats of selling Americans “false economic promises,” she wasn’t just lobbing another rhetorical grenade in Washington’s endless political war. She was tapping into a deep, raw vein of frustration that many ordinary people feel when they look at their bank accounts, their grocery receipts, and their monthly rent. Leavitt’s comments, carried by Fox News, were a blunt rejection of…