An existential threat to democracy or not?

In a podcast with Tim Miller on the Bulwark Podcast, New York Times writer Ezra Klein said many Democrats privately tell him Biden should leave the presidential race, while publicly supporting him. In a New York Times podcast, Democratic U.S. Representative Adam Smith of the 9th Congressional District in Washington said the same thing. Other […]

Is the media to blame for Biden?

An interesting sub-story to the fallout from Biden’s debate performance – well, interesting to me as a journalism professor and journalist – is why his capabilities, or lack thereof, came as such a shock to so many people (including me). One explanation often put forward is “the media”. A side note – I teach my […]

Biden says he isn’t going anywhere

He’s staying in the race. That’s the message that Biden has delivered several times now, from the ABC News interview on Friday to recent campaign appearances to an interview on Morning Joe on Monday to a letter he sent to Congress. And there’s no way he will get replaced by the Democratic Party, either. There’s […]