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Radio Atlantic: This Is Not Your Parents’ Cold War

February 18, 2023 Radio, This, Atlantic, parents, 'Cold0 comment

During the Cold War, NATO had nightmares of hundreds of thousands of Moscow’s troops pouring across international borders and igniting a major ground war with a democracy in Europe. Western governments feared that such a move by the Kremlin would lead to escalation—first to a world war and perhaps even to a nuclear conflict. That was then; this is now. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is nearly a year old, and the Ukrainians are holding on. The Russians, so far, not only have been pushed back, but are taking immense casualties…

Republicans’ 2024 Magical Thinking

February 14, 2023 Republicans, Thinking, 2024, Magical0 comment

Press them hard enough, and most Republican officials—even the ones with MAGA hats in their closets and Mar-a-Lago selfies in their Twitter avatar—will privately admit that Donald Trump has become a problem. He’s presided over three abysmal election cycles since he took office, he is more unstable than ever, and yet he returned to the campaign trail this past weekend, declaring that he is “angry” and determined to win the GOP presidential nomination again in 2024. Aside from his most blinkered loyalists, virtually everyone in the party agrees: It’s time…

Feisty Joe Biden Is Back

February 10, 2023 Feisty, Biden, back0 comment

It was a raucous, interactive, and argumentative State of the Union like no other. And when it was over, President Joe Biden had provided a clear signal of how he plans to contest the 2024 presidential election. Leaning hard into his populist “Scranton Joe” persona, an energetic and feisty Biden sparred with congressional Republicans heckling him from the audience as he previewed what will likely be key themes of the reelection campaign that he’s expected to announce within months, if not weeks. Biden’s speech showed him continuing to formulate an…

Why Aren’t More People Running for President?

February 6, 2023 president, People, more, Running, aren't0 comment

Does anyone want to be president? Typically, by the time a president delivers the State of the Union address at the start of his third year in office, as Joe Biden will on Tuesday, at least half a dozen rivals are already gunning for his job. When Donald Trump began his annual speech to Congress in 2019, four of the Democrats staring back at him inside the House chamber had already declared their presidential candidacies. Not so this year. The only Republican (or Democrat, for that matter) officially trying to…

The GOP Is Just Obnoxious

February 2, 2023 Obnoxious, just0 comment

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Let’s say you’re a politician in a close race and your opponent suffers a stroke. What do you do? If you are Mehmet Oz running as a Republican for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, what you do is mock your opponent’s affliction. In August, the Oz campaign released a list of “concessions” it would offer to the…

The Logic Behind Biden’s Refusal to Negotiate the Debt Ceiling

January 29, 2023 debt, Behind, Ceiling, refusal, negotiate, Biden's, Logic0 comment

President Joe Biden has already made the most important domestic-policy decision he’ll likely face this year. Biden and his top advisers have repeatedly indicated that they will reject demands from the new GOP majority in the House of Representatives to link increasing the debt ceiling with cutting federal spending. Instead, Biden is insisting that Congress pass a clean debt-ceiling increase, with no conditions attached. [Annie Lowrey: The trillion-dollar coin might be the least bad option] Biden’s refusal to negotiate with Republicans now is rooted in the Obama administration’s experiences in…