Tag / Joe Biden
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Electability Is Voters’ Priority Issue In 2020
The 2020 Democratic primary field is crowded. There’s a black, female frontrunner, a gay mayor, a black senator, progressive white women, a Hispanic housing secretary, an Asian American businessman, and white men who range from centrist dad to socialist grandpa. With 11 announced candidates and 12 still deciding, voters have their work cut out for…
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What Reading Joe Biden’s Memoir Taught Me
Promise Me, Dad recently joined the ranks of the few books written by modern American politicians that I have read from cover to cover. Joe Biden’s memoir covers the period from Thanksgiving 2014 to the months which followed his son Beau’s death in May 2015, and it is worthy of the praise that it has…
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Israel: Polarizer Par Excellence
There is no country in the world that frustrates me quite as much as Israel. I want to like it, I really do, but every time I find myself gaining a healthy respect for it, it finds a new way to disappoint. In a region that is potentially on the brink of chaos, Israel stands…
