This week’s cover package explores a crucial element of America’s presidential election: the policies of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. This aspect of the election has been under-covered relative to fever-dreams about what Haitian migrants in Ohio have for lunch. In a series of eight concise policy briefs we aim to fill that void. They tackle the areas—such as tax, trade, energy and immigration—that we think are the most important. One startling fact is that regardless of who is elected president, Mr Trump’s ideas will win. He, not Ms Harris, has set the terms of this contest. As our cover leader argues, American policy has become thoroughly Trumpified.

For those of you keenly tracking the polls ahead of November 5th, my colleagues in our data team this week launched a prediction model for Congress, which now lives alongside our presidential model. The races to control the House and the Senate hang in the balance, and the outcomes will dictate how much America’s next president can hope to achieve.