NATO on the Edge: Biden Praises and Trump Denigrates a 75-Year Alliance
As NATO leaders gathered in Washington this week, one American president hailed the 75-year defensive alliance as the greatest “in the history of the world.”
Peter Baker in political news
Biden’s Lapses Are Said to Be Increasingly Common and Worrisome
In the weeks and months before President Biden’s politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed that he increasingly appeared confused or listless, or would lose the thread of conversations.
Varying Treatment of Biden and Trump Puts Their Parties in Stark Relief
One of America’s political parties has a presidential candidate who is really old and showing it. The other has a presidential candidate who is a convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, business fraudster and self-described aspiring dictator for a day. And also really old.
For Kamala Harris, the Challenge of Getting Ready Without Getting Ready
She was there when he hosted Democratic governors at the White House, and she was on the line when he called Israel’s prime minister, and she was at his side on the balcony overlooking the South Lawn when he celebrated the Fourth of July. As the fireworks were about to start, he grabbed her hand and thrust it into the air in a gesture of unity.
Crisis? What Crisis? Biden Rejects Democratic Pessimism.
All sounds fine in President Biden’s world. That devastating debate? Just a bad night. Those dismal poll numbers? Simply inaccurate. The gloomy election predictions? The same old doomsayers, wrong again. The Democrats who want him to drop out? No one has told him that.
NY Times top White House scribe uses ‘translation headsets’ to understand Biden when he ‘starts to mumble’
The New York Times chief White House correspondent admitted to using "translation headsets" to help decipher President Biden during public speaking events.
Biden Tries to Silence His Doubters by Lashing Out at the ‘Elite’
He was the favorite of the Democratic Party elite. He had been around for decades, knew everyone who was anyone, was a regular habitué of Sunday talk shows and appeared to be the safest choice to take on President Donald J. Trump.