Gwen Stefani has long taken heat for parading around with a group of Japanese-America women she called “Harajuku Girls” — but she insists she has no regrets. The “Hollaback Girl” singer defended herself in a new interview against long-standing charges.

When Joe Biden was a Presidential candidate, he carried around a wonkish book of international comparative politics by two Harvard professors, “How Democracies Die,” from 2018, to explain the urgency of his campaign against Donald Trump. He ended with a typical Biden flourish: “It’s the United States of America, for God’s sake.”