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Elizabeth Warren and Theresa May couldn’t be more different

The newsweeklies canā€™t wait uź§Ÿntil Labor Day to start their political drumbeats.

šŸ„€New York spotlights Sen. Elizabeth Warren ā€” ā€œFront Runner?ā€ asks the cover line for a 10-pagešŸø spread by Rebecca Traister. The New Yorker goes deep on British Prime Minister Theresa May in an 11-page profile by Sam Knight.

The women could not be more different.

Warrenā€™s power-to-the-people bšŸƒeliefs are so persistent she named her puppy ā€œBaileyā€ ā€” after Jimmy Stewartā€™s George Bailey in ā€œItā€™s a Wonderful Life.ā€

Her platformā€™s Bailey-like, too: šŸ…˜ā€œReverse the new corporate tax benefits and invest in stemming the opioid crisis, bring college costs down, institute single-payer health care, regulate financial institutions,ā€ Traister writes.

The authoršŸ² contends that Warren may be just the candidate these timšŸ¦©es demand ā€” ā€œleft, female, and furious.ā€ Really?

Unlike Warren, May is enigmatic.

ā€œShe sits, you talk,ā€ a former Cabinet collšŸŒŗeague says of the PM. ā€œShe looks at you, andšŸ“ then you leave.ā€

ā™‘Mayā€™s also unable to zing like Warren ā€” even though the magazine asserts ā€œshe can land a joke, if she has time to prepare.ā€

Despite being anti-Brexit, May rose to power two years ago ā€” just 20 days after the vote to leave the ź¦“European Union.

Many finšŸ­d her indifference to mšŸŽƒanaging the task disturbing. May makes it all too clear, Knight writes, that ā€œit is not how she would choose to spend her premiership.ā€

Both pieces are well-wršŸ¤”itten ā€” but not exactly beach reading for those looking to get away from it all.