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This article is part of A Kid’s Guide to the Election, a collection of stories about the 2024 presidential election for readers ages 8 to 14, written and produced by The New York Times for Kids. This section is published in The Times’s print edition

If you look to the Los Angeles County Fair’s annual tablescaping competition for a little place-setting inspiration, you may find, among other eccentricities, a giant handmade squid pressed against a floating submarine portholediamond slots, a fake

On a recent Wednesday morning, Matt Kimber did not sign into his job as a senior engineer at a software company. Instead, he went for a walk around his London neighborhood, picked up lunch at a cafe, and played with his two greyhounds. His employer,