Democrats and the media poured praise upon Joe Biden’s time in office following the president’s Sunday announcement that he is dropping out of the 2024 race. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, for example, exalted Biden as “a man” and “a patriot,” while Sen. Chris Coons (D., Del.) sobbed on-air over the president’s decision. Biden quickly threw his
Biden ends terminally ill campaign and his party plunges itself into the unknown Nancy Pelosi (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images), Joe Biden (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images), Kamala Harris (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images), Chuck Schumer (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) President Joe Biden on Sunday euthanized his presidential campaign and handed party bigwigs—George Clooney, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi—what they were demanding:
‘I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down,’ octogenarian says in statement President Joe Biden will not seek reelection but will carry out the remainder of his term, he announced in a statement released Sunday. Minutes later, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as
While the Republican and Democratic parties plunge into painful realignments, China is making its own moves internationally. Taiwan has become a major flashpoint of the U.S.-China rivalry, and two books on the topic reveal not only some of the key arguments taking place in the United States about Taiwan, but also why this realignment is
In Rupert Brooke’s best-known poem, a soldier says that if he dies, there will be “some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” As I discovered nearly 30 years ago, such corners, dating from 1918 and 1919, can be found in a cemetery in Archangel (Archangelsk) in Russia’s far north. In her latest
Mathematicians can have a childlike sense of wonder. They chart the optimal color of bananas to ripen on schedule, rather than just purchasing the best-looking ones. Where most people see a mess to clean up, they see the partial differential equations written in the red of splattered ketchup. They set up statistical models to predict
Practice ‘loving your neighbor,’ Will Rollins says after claiming his opponent will ‘do anything to tear down our democracy’ Will Rollins (@WillRollinsCA/X) California Democrat Will Rollins recently wrote that “loving your neighbor” shouldn’t depend on politics, but the congressional candidate has called Republicans and his opponent, Rep. Ken Calvert (R., Calif.), “extremists” who want to