Joseph Biden

Only the politically hopeful might imagine that a lovefest would occur when Joseph Biden met Vladimir Putin at Geneva.  This was not an encounter of yesteryear, always at Geneva, when both Reagan and Gorbachev could welcome the transformation of the...

President Biden’s public pronouncements have, up to this point, been defined by repeated exaltations of America writ large. “We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we have acted together,” he intoned with Churchill-esque insistence at his inauguration....

The armed criminal supporters--the “pied pipers of Trumpism"-- that stormed the Capitol in what can only be considered an attempted coup d’état, have not only changed the way that the long-established Inauguration ceremony can take place today, they have undermined...

The shocking sights that the world was subjected to on January 6, 2021, as Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol in Washington D.C. should not have taken any careful observer of the Trump presidency by surprise. It was the day some...

The virus of “democratic backsliding” - recently denounced at the U.N. General Assembly during the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of International IDEA, a highly regarded multilateral institution created by Sweden in support of free elections - is not sparing...

Since there’s been a lot of speculation about whether Donald Trump will leave a letter of “welcome” on Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day, Laura and I have had a lot of fun imagining a satirical one that would be “in-character” for...

WhatsApp’s power has indeed been documented in the 2018 Presidential election in Brazil, where Jair Bolsonaro found it an effective conduit for political communication during his successful campaign, but Biden couldn’t benefit from that because Americans aren’t big on WhatsApp....

Leggi in italiano I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in the Miami area talking to voters about their opinions at a variety of polling places, from Miami Beach to Hialeah to West Palm Beach. I’ve met a good mix...

Trump’s supporters mirror Biden’s in their profound mistrust for the opposing candidate. “The stakes are high,” says Patricia, originally from Ecuador, who immigrated to the United States in 1990. She also votes early in every election, and confirms that turnout...