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July 13, 2024
The Obama Fantasy and the Biden Reality Surrounded by a fortress of advisers, the president is walled off from critics — who are desperate for the former one to intervene.
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July 4, 2024
What Kamala World Is Thinking As they wait for a sign, the vice-president’s allies are furious at the talk of her being passed over.
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July 2, 2024
The Democratic Panic Over Biden Is Getting Worse Anxious lawmakers can’t reach him. Donors are fighting over replacements. All of them are asking: When will it end?
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June 28, 2024
Democrats Ask Who Can Make Biden Step Aside Democrats watched the debate and stared into the abyss. Now they ask if he’s a lost cause.
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June 24, 2024
What Obama Is Whispering to Biden The presidents’ plan to save their legacy from Trump.
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May 30, 2024
Does Trump’s Conviction Mean This Is a New Campaign? Down in the polls, Biden’s team hopes Trump’s felony conviction will kick off a month of contrasts that could reframe the race.
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May 25, 2024
When Joe Biden Plays Pundit A close reading of what the president really thinks about 2024—at least what he’s telling his donors.
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May 3, 2024
It’s Not 1968 to Joe Biden The president isn’t worried about campus protests sinking the youth vote. Should he be?
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Mar. 20, 2024
Democrats Are Starting to Take the RFK Jr. Threat Seriously After months of focus on No Labels, pro-Biden forces turn to the man they consider the biggest third-party threat.
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Mar. 12, 2024
Can Democrats Make 2024 the Abortion Election? J.B. Pritzker and his fortune are going to try.
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Mar. 4, 2024
The Return of the Clintons Bill talks economics with Biden. Hillary gives pointers to Harris. The former First Couple is as deep in politics as they have been since Trump won.
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Feb. 17, 2024
Too Old? Biden World Thinks Pundits Just Don’t Get Joe. The president’s friends and aides play media critic amid a political mess.
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Feb. 1, 2024
Bernie Sanders’s Pressure Campaign on Democrats Over Israel He’s getting louder about America’s role in Israel’s war, pushing his own party to act before it’s too late.
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Jan. 18, 2024
Biden World Hopes Voters Are Waking Up to Trump The president’s reelection campaign needs voters to understand: The other guy is seriously back.
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Jan. 5, 2024
Biden Will Keep Talking About Democracy to Beat Trump It’s not only the move his campaign has been waiting to make, it’s also personal.
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Sept. 28, 2023
The Impeachment Prosecutor Turned Defender Dan Goldman went after Trump but says there’s no comparison to the ‘bald-faced lies’ against Biden.
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Sept. 22, 2023
The Strike From Hell for ‘Union Joe’ The UAW doesn’t want his help, but he will need theirs against Trump, who sees an opportunity.
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Aug. 24, 2023
‘The Party of Cuckoo, Wacko, and Weirdo’ Biden world watched the non-Trump debate with a mixture of boredom, disgust, and glee.
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Aug. 14, 2023
Biden’s Hollywood Debut Is on Hold The strike has forced him to avoid some of his biggest donors, except the one helping run his campaign.
J. B. Pritzker Is a New Democratic Power Broker The governor of Illinois is rich and powerful, making him both an ally to Joe Biden and his own center of influence.
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Aug. 2, 2023
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June 16, 2023
The Guerrilla War to Stop No Labels From Electing Trump D.C.’s centrists used to be friends, until a few inexplicably went rogue.
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May 24, 2023
The Two Bidens Are Fighting Each Other Over the Debt Ceiling The president started the debt-ceiling fight by saying he’d never negotiate, but he can’t seem to resist cutting deals.
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Apr. 26, 2023
Old Beats Crazy Biden was always going to run again, and a longtime adviser explains how he might argue that age is but a number.
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Apr. 24, 2023
Gavin Newsom Isn’t Supposed to Be Doing This The Feinstein dilemma looms over the wannabe face of Democrats.
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Apr. 14, 2023
How Democrats Started Winning in Wisconsin Again After years of being crushed by Republicans, liberals have clawed their way back into power with more cash, better organizing, and abortion politics.
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Apr. 6, 2023
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Mar. 10, 2023
The One Big Question Bernie Sanders Won’t Answer The progressive hero has more power than ever. He has to decide whether to try and keep it ’til he’s 89.
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Mar. 1, 2023
Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s Translator, Leaves the White House She explains the press to the president, preaches Twitter-is-not-real-life, and keeps the West Wing from leaking.
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Feb. 10, 2023
The Agonizing Fall of the Florida Democrat The few left in office insist their state isn’t a lost cause … yet.
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Jan. 30, 2023
Joe Biden’s Big Lesson From the Last Debt-Ceiling Fight And why this time is totally different from 2011. Hopefully.
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Dec. 27, 2022
Joe Biden Is Quietly Rolling Into 2024 He has silenced a year’s worth of chatter about potential replacements.
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Nov. 30, 2022
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Nov. 11, 2022
The Vindication (for Now) of Joe Biden Being underestimated is not new to those who’ve been with him from the start.
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Nov. 4, 2022
Why Democrats Are Suddenly Very Nervous Obama, both Clintons, and even Biden try to rescue their party from a potential rout.
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Nov. 3, 2022
The Most Important Senate Race Is Also the Most Ignored While most of the chatter is about other races, Nevada might actually decide control of the chamber.
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Nov. 1, 2022
What Obama Is Doing Behind the Scenes to Help Democrats Win Working the phones, advising on messaging — and trying to make all that work with his own vision for being an ex-president.
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Oct. 7, 2022
What Biden Privately Thinks About the Midterms Behind closed doors, his 2022 priorities (like beating Ron Johnson) are also about his 2024 reelection.
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Sept. 16, 2022
Biden Isn’t the Main Character of the Midterms Anymore That’s a very good thing for Democrats — and it has Republicans nervous.
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Aug. 5, 2022
The Super-High-Stakes 2022 Race No One Is Talking About Charlie Crist has been Florida governor before. He thinks he can win again, toppling Ron DeSantis and sending the GOP into chaos in the process.
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Aug. 1, 2022
The Kamala Conundrum The Democrats’ leader-in-waiting is unpopular, derided by donors, and here to stay.
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July 19, 2022
Why More and More Democrats Want Trump to Declare Soon “It’d be terrible! We don’t want him back!” said a party pollster. “But it would highlight the contrast.”
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July 5, 2022
The 3 Most Important Races in the Post-Roe Midterms “The stakes have gone up because these races are fundamental to protecting democracy and abortion rights.”
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June 24, 2022
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June 8, 2022
Could Biden’s Post-Midterm Pivot Start at Treasury? Janet Yellen has become a face of the inflation problem. Business-friendly Gina Raimondo is rumored as a potential successor.
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Apr. 13, 2022
‘I Mean, We Need More Money’: An Exit Interview With the COVID Czar Jeff Zients on funding gaps, misinformation, and the future of the virus.
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Feb. 25, 2022
Biden’s Theory of Escalation The president doesn’t want a war, but he’s been eager to show Putin what he’s made of.
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Feb. 14, 2022
Is This the One Democrat Who’s Figured Out COVID? Governors on the coasts are playing catch up to Colorado’s Jared Polis.
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Nov. 4, 2021
What Democrats and Pollsters Missed in New Jersey Republicans may be shy in responding to surveys, but not about turning out on Election Day, says one of the state’s top pollsters.
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Nov. 3, 2021
The Next Democratic Reckoning High election turnout was supposed to benefit the party, but Tuesday’s results showed once again that it cuts both ways.
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