Joe Biden

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• 5/24/2020
  

  No More Business as Usual! It’s Time for Joe Biden to Defend our Democracy

  by Claudia Koonz

  A historian of European dictatorship argues that Joe Biden must recognize that not just the election but the health of democracy is at stake and challenge the administration's efforts to operate above the law.

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• SOURCE: New York
  5/11/2020
  

  Biden Is Planning an FDR-Size Presidency

  Biden's advisers agreed: If they were going to talk about lessons from history, their future calls might as well dive into the Great Depression and World War II.

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• 4/30/2020
  

  What's Next for Presumptive Dem Nominee Joe Biden?

  by HNN Staff

  Joe Biden's campaign has been overshadowed by the COVID-19 crisis, but his choice of a VP, his policy advisers, and sexual assault allegations have put him in the news. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/27/2020
  

  Larry Summers Is a Dead Albatross Around Biden’s Neck

  Larry Summers's history as an advocate of neoliberal economic policy makes his relationship to the Biden campaign troubling for progressive Democrats. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/17/2020
  

  Did Gender Keep Democratic Women From Winning The Presidential Primary?

  Gender was definitely a factor in this year's Democratic primaries. How could it not be after what the party has seen over the past four years? But the ways in which attitudes about gender impacted the outcome are varied and, of course, more than a bit complicated.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  4/14/2020
  

  Biden Needs a History-Making Women's Agenda in Response to COVID

  The 2018 midterms and 2020 primaries showed just how critical the turnout of women—Democrat, independent and moderate Republican will be this November.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  4/14/2020
  

  Bernie Offered Us the Future. Why did He Fail—and What did We Forfeit?

  by Moshik Temkin

  Because his support is so concentrated among the young, and because the problems he vowed to fight will only get worse whether Trump or Biden wins, this movement is only likely to grow, and its next leaders might eventually succeed where he failed.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/13/2020
  

  If Biden Wins, He’ll Have to Put the World Back Together

  If Joe Biden wins the election in November, he will likely be sworn in—perhaps virtually—under the most challenging circumstances since Harry Truman became president in 1945.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/13/2020
  

  Why Biden’s Polling Lead vs. Trump Isn’t as Solid as It Looks

  Mr. Biden’s already narrow polling lead in states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania or Arizona might be vanishingly small after pollsters screen for "likely voters."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/13/2020
  

  What Biden Learned the Last Time the World Stopped

  He oversaw the 2009 economic recovery for Barack Obama. If he wins the presidency, his first task will be to perform an encore on an even more daunting scale.

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• 3/27/2020
  

  A Word to My Fellow Progressives: Lessons of the 2020 Democratic Primary

  by Andrew Meyer

  This year feels to many progressives like a lost opportunity. With Joseph Biden seemingly certain to win the Democratic nomiatuion, what can progressives learn and apply to the future from the experience of 2020?

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/27/2020
  

  Why Politicians Can’t Stop Talking About “Folks”

  by John Patrick Leary

  Most politicians are playacting: a privileged cohort of other-than-real Americans desperately trying to convince a mass following that they are, indeed, just plain folks.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  3/27/2020
  

  Inside Joe Biden’s Coronavirus Bunker

  The Biden campaign is looking to history, specifically the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, for campaign strategy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  Campaign Signals Sanders May Be Open To Exit

  New signs emerged of communication between the two camps as some Democrats hoped for a swift end to a bruising primary.

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• SOURCE: GEN
  3/18/2020
  

  The Generational Dispute Over the ‘Safe’ Choice for President

  by David Walsh

  Millennials and Generation Z may have more in common with their grandparents and great-grandparents than their parents.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/15/2020
  

  Winners and Losers from the Bernie Sanders-Joe Biden Debate

  Biden drove home the point that he would be a steady, pragmatic hand at an uncertain time.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  

  Bye Bye Bernie

  According to our experts, Bernie Sanders may not have won the debate, or the 2020 Democratic primary. But he changed his party, and Joe Biden, for the better.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Historians on Bernie and Biden's Head to Head Debate

  What do historians think about the first one on one Democratic debate?

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• SOURCE: Politico
  3/15/2020
  

  Sanders Bets on Biden Debate Implosion

  His rivals have been waiting for more than a year for Biden to wilt under pressure. Sunday’s debate looks like Sanders’ last hope.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Do We Want the Progressive Sanders or the Pragmatist Biden?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Because his pragmatic style matches more the American tradition, Biden has a better chance of unifying our nation and delivering positive long-range results.