In his inauguration speech yesterday, Joe Biden rightly identified a crisis of ignored truth and unending lies in American politics. Donald Trump enflamed that crisis, but the political class, the media industry, and Biden himself helped create it.
Joe Biden’s likely nominee to head the powerful Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, called for cuts to Social Security, saying, “we need to put both entitlements on the table as well as taxes.”
For the poor and working class, Joe Manchin demands work requirements for child tax credits. Yet for the rich, he’s happy to support — and personally benefit from — work-free income.
Joe Biden has been betraying his campaign promise to allow borrowers to discharge their student debts through bankruptcy. In a new letter, 27 Democratic senators are demanding the administration stop trying to overturn court rulings that help student debtors.
Some have defended Joe Biden's economic record by noting that median household wealth has increased on his watch. But that uptick is mostly due to home and car value inflation — meaning it's of limited use to regular people who need their home and cars to live.
Not long after his inauguration, where he assured Americans that they "can overcome this deadly virus," Joe Biden announced that as many as hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths are unavoidable in the coming months. But there’s only one reason for that — Biden preemptively ruled out pursuing a national stay-at-home order two months ago.
Joe Kennedy’s campaign for Senate against Ed Markey is utterly pointless, a vacuous bid to leverage his youth and his family crest into another position of power.
Joe Manchin is threatening to kill the reconciliation bill for promoting an "entitlement mentality," almost exactly 13 years after he pushed for a Wall Street bailout. It would be nice if bankers ever had to show a little "personal responsibility."
You wouldn't know it from the belligerent media coverage, but so far, despite his record as a tough-talking anti-Russia hawk, Joe Biden has been taking US policy toward Moscow in a surprisingly reasonable direction.
Joe Biden ran for president promising student debt relief. His administration now appears to be doing the opposite, trying to overturn a recent ruling that helps those bankrupted by student loans.
The departure of Donald Trump from the White House is cause for celebration. Our task now is to build a democratic socialist alternative to Joe Biden — and to oppose the Democratic establishment’s neoliberal agenda.
Joe Biden’s new ethics order will limit one revolving door loophole between government and lobbying — but not the loopholes Biden’s own cabinet picks used to make their fortunes.
With Joe Biden in the White House, the adults were meant to be back in charge, running a well-managed foreign policy. Instead, it’s been a series of embarrassments and growing tensions with the rest of the world.
Yesterday Chicago became the largest US city to call for a cease-fire in Gaza, issuing a challenge to Joe Biden from a Democratic stronghold. It's an omen for what could be a turbulent election season.
The defeat of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn and the ascension of Joe Biden and Keir Starmer hasn’t just meant the defeat of domestic working-class politics — it’s meant the defeat of an egalitarian internationalism that opposes war and imperialism.
Last year, corporate Democrat Joe Manchin blocked a plan to expand Medicare, arguing it would be too expensive. A free medical and dental clinic just a few miles from his home in West Virginia makes clear just how badly people need such care.
During his first week in office, Joe Biden signed an executive order pausing oil and gas leases on federal land. But a few months later, it's clear the modest action will do little to rein in US carbon emissions.
Joe Biden actually showed signs of life in his State of the Union. And Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s response reflected a GOP determined to stay weird and unhinged. But whatever his rhetorical innovations, Bidenism in practice remains grounded in Beltway orthodoxy.
Joe Biden’s astonishing propensity to make things up is a major liability for him. But Democratic voters have been largely kept in the dark about those lies by liberal media outlets.
Joe Biden just announced a proposal to force big landlords to choose between capping rent increases at 5% annually or losing access to a coveted tax write-off. It’s not a real rent cap — but it potentially opens the door to bolder federal action.