The former vice president told the hard truth to the American people. No Democrat has dared do so since.

Jonathan Cohn’s new book shows how narrowly health care reform passed—and how far we are from universal coverage.

Party leaders like Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer say they won’t repeat the missteps of Barack Obama’s first term. They haven’t proved it quite yet.

The administration has promised to revise the post-9/11 legal basis for permanent war. It’s not enough.

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Biden’s airstrike in Syria shows how little is going to change about America’s military entanglements in the Middle East.

Biden has an opportunity to break the cycle of deadly border militarization embraced by his predecessors of both parties. Will he take it?

It worked against Obama. But GOP attacks on the Democrats’ Covid stimulus bill are falling on deaf ears after four years of Trump.

“A Promised Land” tells of a country that needed a savior.

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The Democratic senator has survived in West Virginia by casting himself as a champion of working people. Will his fixation on bipartisanship prevent him from living up to the role?

With Putinism under assault, the president can forge a new path by rejecting regime change and heavy-handed democracy promotion in favor of interconnected diplomacy.

Yes, new press secretary Jen Psaki is getting raves. That doesn’t mean televised briefings are worthwhile.

The United States should follow the examples of other nations that were brave enough to make their despotic leaders face justice.

A consideration of dirty work, the people who dream of doing it, and what it means for everyone else

How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection

Too many politicians mimic JFK and Obama. Can Joe Biden break the mold?

What will Trump's presidential library look like?

Can the largest media platform in the world ever be made safe for democracy?

Federal secrecy reached new heights under Trump, but there’s a lot the incoming president can do to let the sunshine back in.