Joe Biden

Demography has not managed to be destiny in the past half-century—but predictions of a millenarian shift have not lost their appeal.

Joe Biden is hardly the first president who has decided not to seek a second term—but the circumstances this time are unique.

No, "history" does not tell us that the Democrats shouldn't change their nominee.

On three histories of the Biden White House, and the 2024 election.

As Democrats debate whether Joe Biden should stay in the race against Trump, LBJ’s often misunderstood example looms.

Like his predecessor, the president is decrying anti-Arab and Muslim hatred while helping fuel it. People are refusing to let him get away with this hypocrisy.

The president once said “Israel could get into a fistfight with this country and we’d still defend” it. That is now clearer than ever.

He expressed support for Israel's bloody invasion of Lebanon, saying the US would be similarly justified retaliating against Canadian cities for militant attacks.

Historical experts and former Carter advisers fact-check the critics who have compared Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter.

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.

In a city of ambitious influencers, a shadow cabinet hopes it can summon a new New Deal.

How a pop historian shaped the soul of Biden’s presidency.

The oval office looks different now that President Biden is its occupant.

A genealogist takes a closer look at Joe Biden's family history.

Behind the friendship was a more complicated relationship, which now drives the former vice president to prove his partner wrong.

Joe Biden was once a New Deal Democrat. Then he “evolved” and starting backing decades of Republican plans to cut Medicare and Social Security.

Biden’s assistance to William Casey, Reagan’s CIA director, and the rehabilitation of the intelligence service in general has had tragic consequences.

Biden convinced small-government Republicans to increase spending in the War on Crime.

Like other northern liberals in the 1970s, Biden worked to restrict federal civil rights enforcement to the Jim Crow South.

The candidate’s years as an anti-busing crusader cannot be forgotten—or readily forgiven.