Hallie Biden, widow of the president's late son,Beau, plays a key role in the backstory toHunter Biden's trialon federal gun charges that begins this week. And her Thursday testimony is expected to be critical in his trial. The president's surviving son is accused of making a false sta...
“Trump’s ‘America First’ has been ‘America Alone,’” said Brian McKeon, a Biden foreign policy adviser and a former White House and Pentagon adviser in the Obama administration. “On his first day in office, [Biden] will get on the phone to key allies and say that America is bac...
Falsehoods, half-truths and spin have been a feature of politics since the dawn of time, but a new book reveals how, even in the age of ‘fact checkers’, our leaders have been spouting absolute whoppers at an astonishing rate. French philosopherJoseph de Maistresaid it first, butThomas J...
In fact, he’ll likely lose further ground, since there are more provisionals in blue counties than in red ones. JUST NOW: Allegheny County Executive says they have 20-23K mail-in ballots left to count, which have been trending 80/20 toward Biden. Also have an additional 17K provisional...
Democrats may have a narrow majority in both the House and the Senate for the next two years, but it’s nothing near the margin they hoped for. And the likelihood that Democrats keepboththe Houseandthe Senatein 2022 are low, as the president’s party almost always loses seats in the mid...
This paper draws heavily on previous work that I have been engaged on, in collaboration with colleagues at the Grantham Research Institute (GRI) at LSE and beyond over the last several years, including Stern and Stiglitz (2022) and Stern (2022)....
Biden and Harris have collected hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign funds over the past two years. That money has been allocated to the Biden campaign, the Democratic National Committee and various state Democratic organizations. As of June 30, those organizations had a combined $240 m...
Now back to Healey.Our governor’s proposal is still lacking in detail. But it appears to hew closely to what Biden put forward in 2022 and doubled down on inanother wave of pardons late last year, both in practice and in message. ...
Under the Biden administration, the U.S.ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan with a hasty withdrawal of troops after shattering the whole country and destroying the future of several generations. Datareleased bythe UK-based monitor group Airwarsshowed thatU.S. airstrikes alone have killed as ...
Andrea Flores, a former Biden administration official, denounced the president's move, saying it could set a dangerous precedent. "If the president is now claiming he can shut down asylum when he feels like it — even after border numbers have plunged by over 50% — this precedent gives fut...