Joe Biden

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• 7/14/19
  

  Say It Ain't So Joe: Strategies of Segregation in Ventura County

  by Frank P. Barajas

  The desegregation busing laws that Joe Biden opposed in the 1970s have given way to "a more insidious segregation" in this California community today.

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• SOURCE: Jezebel
  6/3/2019
  

  On Busing, Joe Biden, and the 'Pervasiveness of White Backlash to School Desegregation'

  Jezebel spoke with Brett Gadsden, a history professor at Northwestern University and the author of Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism about how to understand Biden’s position as part of white backlash to desegregation efforts, the ongoing resegregation of American life, and the reality that, as he put it, “racial segregation is the norm, not the exception.”

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/28/2019
  

  Joe Biden’s record on school desegregation busing, explained

  The former vice president once called busing “an asinine policy.”

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/20/19
  

  The controversial 1994 crime law that Joe Biden helped write, explained

  The 1994 “tough on crime” law remains a big topic of debate in 2020 Democratic debates. Here’s what you need to know.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  4/26/19
  

  Vice presidential chances: How history bodes for Biden

  Joe Biden has a political imperative as he embarks on his 2020 presidential bid — to be more like Ronald Reagan circa 1980 and less like Jeb Bush in 2016.

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• SOURCE: Washigton Post
  4/25/19
  

  Biden is leading the polls. But his other presidential bids were disasters.

  Here’s what went wrong for Biden in 1987 and 2007.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/17/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden and the politics of touch

  by Mark M. Smith

  No one was better at tactile politics than Abraham Lincoln.

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• 3/10/19
  

  Three Unexpected Deaths That Shaped Presidential History

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Unexpected tragedy in the lives of three political leaders—John F. Kennedy, Jr., Paul Wellstone, and Joe Biden—demonstrate the profound impact of chance on political history. 

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• 9/23/18
  

  Another Remarkable Thing About the 2020 Presidential Election is that 4 of the Potential Candidates Would Be Over 80 in Office

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  And that would be a first in our history.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-14-17
  

  Re-watching Joe Biden’s disastrous Anita Hill hearing: A sexual harassment inquisition

  What went wrong.

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• 2-7-17
  

  The Two Vice Presidents Who Got Along Best with Their Presidents

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Walter Mondale and Joe Biden

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• 5-1-16
  

  The Stunning Success of Joe Biden’s Vice Presidency

  by Joel K. Goldstein

  He has become the most productive two-term vice president in American history.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-25-16
  

  How Biden killed John Roberts’s nomination in 1992

  by Marc Thiessen

  What Republicans are doing today is far from unprecedented. To the contrary, it is the norm.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-22-16
  

  In 1992, Joe Biden Was Against Supreme Court Nomination During ‘Full Throes Of An Election Year’

  “It would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is underway — and it is — action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over,” Biden said. “That is what is fair to the nominee and essential to the process.”

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• 6-7-15
  

  Richard Nixon, Joe Biden and the Humanity of a Moment Shared by Political Opponents at a Time of Family Crisis

  by James Robenalt

  What Nixon said to Biden when his wife and son were killed in a car crash.

• SOURCE: HNN staff
  5-10-13
  

  Doug Brinkley makes cover of Rolling Stone for Joe Biden interview

  Douglas Brinkley, the prolific Rice University historian who has already twice graced the cover of Rolling Stone (first for his interview of Bob Dylan in 2009, then for his interview of Barack Obama in 2012) has done it again.Brinkley's interview with Vice President Joe Biden made the cover of the most recent issue of Rolling Stone.A taste:There is a keen Kennedy-like vigor to Joe Biden that overwhelms any room. As was once said of Theodore Roosevelt, he, too, wants to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. Unlike President Obama, who speaks in interviews with Hemingway-esque sparseness, Biden rambles like Thomas Wolfe, painting a robust picture of an ever-changing America where coal miners will soon be working in clean-tech jobs, gun-safety laws will be tougher and China will be reined in by the White House from poisoning the planet with megatons of choking pollutants....