Joe Biden

There’s no guarantee democracy won’t turn despotic – again

By John Stoehr / January 16, 2025 /

Biden warns of “the tech-industrial complex.”

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In word, Biden says remember J6. In deed, he enables its erasure

By John Stoehr / January 6, 2025 /

We will forget if evil seems normal.

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Is Biden helping Trump ‘destroy American democracy’?

By John Stoehr / December 6, 2024 /

Either the president meant what he said or didn’t.

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For Trump and the GOP, no collective fate in times of crisis

By John Stoehr / October 9, 2024 /

In rightwing politics, whether it’s a war, a pandemic or a series of hurricanes, we’re not all in this together. Only the strong survive. 

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Biden is insulating Harris against Trump’s racist demagoguery

By John Stoehr / August 21, 2024 /

By convincing white working-class voters that she’s the real populist.

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New joy among Democrats comes from flexing their own power

By John Stoehr / August 14, 2024 /

But first came the end of the crazy-making.

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The more he tries to dominate, the more Trump ‘decomposes’

By John Stoehr / August 8, 2024 /

He can’t change a lifetime of habits. 

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Biden’s exit leaves no room for scammers like Kennedy

By John Stoehr / July 25, 2024 /

That’s going to help the vice president.

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You’re wrong, John. Dropping out wasn’t a mistake

By John Stoehr / July 25, 2024 /

A counterpoint to Monday’s edition.

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The Narrative is dead, long live The Narrative

By John Stoehr / July 24, 2024 /

The press and pundit corps have been talking about the president’s age for so long that public concern about the age of candidates is baked in.

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