Visits: 33 Did Presidents Biden, Obama and Clinton, appearing together at a fund-raiser in open-neck shirts, look casual or ‘a little disheveled’? Simultaneously historic and perhaps a big nothing, the shot was snapped on Thursday in New York City when …
The Olive Green Sweatshirt Goes to Congress
Visits: 19 President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine came to Washington wearing his reality on his sleeves. He never donned the political camouflage of a suit. The olive green sweatshirt, with its little Ukrainian trident embroidered at the neck, cargo pants …
A Tale of Two Weddings: Trump and Biden
Visits: 25 In Washington, D.C., and Mar-a-Lago, political and personal mythmaking collide. Two weekends. Two weddings. Two seats of power. Two first families: one former, one current, both hoping, it seems likely, to be future as well. And so two …
President-elect Biden’s German Shepherd Major Will Be the First Shelter Dog in the White House
Visits: 26 Six months into his bid for the presidency, Joseph R. Biden Jr. made his position on pets abundantly clear. “Some Americans celebrate #NationalCatDay, some celebrate #NationalDogDay,” he wrote in a tweet. “President Trump celebrates neither. It says a …
Biden’s Dogs to Return Presidential Pets to the White House
Visits: 30 President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to restore a time-honored tradition of having a presidential pet at the White House. Starting in January, the Biden family’s two German shepherds, Champ and Major, will roam the executive residence. …
‘Inshallah’: The Perfect Phrase for 2020
Visits: 35 When Joseph R. Biden Jr. dropped the Arabic phrase “inshallah” in the first presidential debate last month, Muslim Twitter lost it. Inshallah, which means “if god wills,” can be a double-edged sword, equal parts sincere and savage. I …