Biden’s assistance to William Casey, Reagan’s CIA director, and the rehabilitation of the intelligence service in general has had tragic consequences.
Joe Biden
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The DNC’s Debate Gambit Prevents Donor Accountability
With only one debate, candidates will get the national stage before the deadline for disclosing their third-quarter donor information.
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Republicans Turned on Nixon. Here’s Why They Won’t Turn on Trump.
As was not the case in 1974, Republicans now have counterfactual media that allows or compels them to ignore blatant lawbreaking.
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Will Trump and Biden Take Each Other Down?
The last thing the Democrats need is a nominee who reminds voters, even faintly, of Donald Trump.
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Former Biden Chief of Staff is Fox News’ Top Lobbyist
A former key Biden official began lobbying for the rightwing news channel in July, a recent filing shows.
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Which Democrat Can Absorb the Blows of the General Election Campaign?
Every candidate confronts some kind of scandal. The candidates who win are the ones who can move past them.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Warren Plan Would Close Tax Loophole Joe Biden Uses
Biden makes use of the “Gingrich-Edwards” loophole to avoid payroll taxes.
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What Joe Biden and His Supporters Have in Common: Neither Is Paying Much Attention
In my Tuesday On Tap, I noted that of all the leading Democratic presidential candidates, only former Vice President Biden has not come out in favor of the most consequential legislation now pending in any of the 50 state legislatures: California’s Assembly Bill 5, which would require Uber, Lyft, and other companies to reclassify their […]
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Joe Biden, MIA
As Prospect staff writer Alex Sammon has noted, the most important piece of legislation currently pending in any of the nation’s 50 state legislatures has seen something of a generational divide among Democrats. The bill, AB5, would conform California’s labor law to a ruling of the state’s Supreme Court that required employers to reclassify workers […]
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Biden Didn’t Dodder, and Other Observations
Also: What’s Gabbard’s game?
