Joe Biden

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  4/25/2022
  

  Robert Moses is Dead. Making Him a Bogeyman Keeps Planners from Understanding Racism

  By condemning the big projects Moses favored, planners excuse their own involvement in perpetuating the idea that some neighborhoods and some residents are more valuable than others. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/12/2022
  

  The Ukraine Temptation – Can Biden Resist a New Cold War?

  by Stephen Wertheim

  A bid to restore global military primacy is no more merited today than it was before the invasion. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/4/2022
  

  Biden's Options in Ukraine are Ugly

  by Walter Russell Mead

  "Now both sides are stuck with a war that neither knows how to win, and it is difficult to see the outlines of a compromise peace that both sides can accept."

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• 3/27/2022
  

  Can Joe Biden Resist War Pressure and Lead Toward Peace?

  by Martin Halpern

  It will take political courage and wisdom for Biden to resist a policy course toward war by diplomatic engagement with Russia.

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  3/4/2022
  

  Heather Cox Richardson White House Interview with Joe Biden

  Historian Heather Cox Richardson talks with President Joe Biden about his views on American democracy in the 21st century.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/1/2022
  

  A Purgatorial Message from JFK to Joe Biden

  by Andrew Bacevich

  "I urge you to think carefully before making the leap into such an unmourned past.  Whatever your political advisers may imagine, displays of presidential toughness aren’t what our nation needs right now."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2022
  

  GOP Response Shows Party May be Fighting the Last Battle as World Changes

  Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds's response to SOTU was heavy on recent culture war themes. Historian Eric Rauchway says that if Biden can repeat the performance of leadership by FDR in the face of the rising threat of fascism, these tactics might be irrelevant. 

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• 2/27/2022
  

  Time is Short and the Tests are Stern for the Biden Presidency

  by Simon Serfaty

  After his election on the promise of a restoration of normalcy, international events have been particularly unfavorable to Joe Biden. Fair or not, his political survival hinges on resolving a set of crises with no time to spare. 

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• SOURCE: The 1A
  2/9/2022
  

  The Biden White House Lends Support to Right to Organize a Union

  Labor historian Erik Loomis discusses the release of a pro-union report by the White House Task Force on Worker Orgainzing and Empowerment. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb
  

  Conservatives' Opposition to Yet-Unnamed SCOTUS Nominee Shows the Right's Siege Mentality

  by Thomas Zimmer

  If Joe Biden follows through on a pledge to nominate a Black woman to the high court, it won't change the ideological tilt on the bench, but it will highlight that white men still dominate powerful institutions and that conservative politics is concerned with preserving that dominance. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/26/2022
  

  Biden Can't Let Manchin and Synema Derail His Court Nominee

  by Julian Zelizer

  Now that Manchin and Sinema have forged their political brands around bucking the party, there's no reason to assume that they'll fall in line easily behind Biden's nominee. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  1/25/2022
  

  Historian Harvey Kaye: Biden has Never Wanted to be FDR

  Entering office in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt was confident that mass social movements would build support for systemic political and economic change. Joe Biden does not seem to be drawing similar lessons from social protest today. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/21/2022
  

  Biden Defends Bull Connor Analogy for Opponents of Voting Rights Bill

  Eddie Glaude, chair of African American Studies at Princeton, called the outrage over the analogy a "disingenuous" reflection of Republicans' concern for being called racist exceeding their concern for racist practices. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  1/11/2021
  

  Julian Zelizer Joins "Here and Now" to Discuss Biden Voting Rights Push

  How will Biden deliver a planned speech on voting rights under the shadow of the filibuster? Will it sway reluctant Democrats like Manchin and Sinema? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/11/2022
  

  Biden to Endorse Changing Filibuster Rules for Voting Rights Legislation

  The President is expected to endorse limited changes to the filibuster rules to enable a straight majority vote on voting rights legislation, while perserving the filibuster for other legislation. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/9/2021
  

  Why does Biden's Term Register as a Disappointment? We've Misread the Political Regime Cycle

  by Corey Robin

  The author was among those who thought Joe Biden might seize a "reconstructive moment" to push aside the social austerity politics of the Reagan Revolution. The problem hasn't been Biden's will, but the disproportionate obstructive power conservatives still hold. 

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• SOURCE: Milwaukee Independent
  11/30/2021
  

  Biden's Burden: Emotion Outweighs Policy with Voters

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  The Biden agenda is broadly popular, but the President isn't. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/2/2021
  

  In Praise of One-Size-Fits-All Social Policy

  by Lawrence B. Glickman

  "To call a vaccine mandate a constraint on an “intensely personal decision” is to obfuscate the fundamental reality that pandemics are intensely social."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/29/2021
  

  Can Biden Avoid Carter's Biggest Blunder?

  by Meg Jacobs

  “I’ll give it to you straight,” Carter said. “Each one of us will have to use less oil and pay more for it.” This arguably sensible position was disastrous politics. Can Biden do more to encourage conservation while acknowledging the economic pain fuel prices inflict?

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/8/2021
  

  If the Dems Turn to the Center, They Will Lose to Trump

  by Samuel Moyn

  In the wake of the Virginia gubernatorial election, centrist Democrats have revived calls for austerity as the only safe electoral strategy. They will find out how wrong that analysis is if they are successful in pulling the Biden administration away from a broad agenda.