To announce that she would not be running for any public office — including governor of California, a race she had already declined to enter in a written statement — Kamala Harris chose a fitting venue. The former Vice President gave her first major televised interview since losing last year’s presidential election to Stephen Colbert, a man who can likely relate to her current situation. Both Harris and Colbert are exiting their prominent positions of influence, not entirely of their own volition. And both leave the helm of once-enduring institutions that seem to be crumbling behind them. The politician and the entertainer will both be just fine on their own, a fact it was hard to deny as Harris dedicated the bulk of the conversation to promoting an upcoming memoir, not sounding the alarm on injustice. It’s the systems they’re a face of that deserve our concern.

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