Jill Biden’s Momentous Choice
First ladies have unique influence over their husband’s decision to embark on a presidential campaign, and over the presidency itself.
First ladies have unique influence over their husband’s decision to embark on a presidential campaign, and over the presidency itself.
Just over a week after the president’s disastrous debate performance, Democratic voters seem down on his chances, and ready for an alternative candidate.
The president told George Stephanopoulos that he’d drop out only if “the Lord Almighty” directed him to do so.
Or rather, does it still have one?
The same approach that has long driven his success now threatens to destroy his legacy.
His campaign’s rationalizations for the status quo don’t add up.
Joe Biden’s most effective promotion of his vice president could be entirely inadvertent.
The former president’s recent attack on Senator Chuck Schumer is like an Everlasting Gobstopper of offense, with new layers emerging one after another.
The president’s speech disorder is just one element of what the nation witnessed last week.
If the president wants to protect American democracy, he should hand over his office to Kamala Harris.
Amid deep concern about Biden’s capacity to continue as the nominee, party leaders are confronting the options and obstacles.
Biden’s party doesn’t need to sleepwalk into a catastrophe.
His guilty verdict cost him no more than a smidgen of support.
Even those who parrot the party line acknowledge that their candidate stepping aside might be best.
“Pride goes before ruin; arrogance, before failure.”
Republicans aren’t the only party putting tribal loyalty ahead of basic truth.
Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.
Nervous Democrats mount an antidemocratic campaign against their own president.
Battery and aviation experts were flummoxed by his recent assertions about electric aircraft, which are not yet in widespread use.
The Democrats’ situation could be worse. If they’re not careful, it will be.