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The American public is in a dour mood — and that spells trouble for President Biden and his party as next year’s midterm elections loom.

Democratic infighting and distrust combined to tarnish a likely victory Thursday.

The battles of next year’s midterm congressional elections will be won on the playing fields of this summer.

The Memo: Biden teams Obama criticisms draw some blowback Niall Stanage © Getty Images The Memo: Biden teams Obama criticisms draw some blowback President Biden, who ran for the Democratic nomination last year as former President Obamas closest ally, has recently begun voicing criticism of his predecessor. However mild the critiques might be, they risk being seen as nitpicking at the legacy of the most popular Democrat in the nation. Biden has said that Obama was not assertiv...

09/03/2021 From Whence I Came: The Kennedy Legacy, Ireland and America, a new book edited by Dublin City University Professor, Donnacha Ó Beacháin, and Kennedy Summer School Director, Brian Murphy, will be launched by An Taoiseach Mícheál Martin on Monday 15 th March. The Kennedy Legacy The timely collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the Kennedy legacy and the politics of Ireland and the US. It features specially commissioned pieces by a range of respected academic and politi...

Quiet and low profile, Mike Donilon is Biden’s White House ‘wise man’ By Jess Bidgood and Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated March 5, 2021, 9:50 a.m. Email to a Friend Mike Donilon listened to Joe Biden speak in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 6.ERIN SCHAFF/NYT/file WASHINGTON — Last year, as the pandemic hemmed Joe Biden’s campaign appearances inside the boundaries of his Delaware home base, anxiety-ridden Democrats groused he wasn’t doing enough to seize control of the pr...

Kamala Harris last week, the news anchor for WSAZ in Huntington, W.Va., pointed out how unusual it was that “the White House actually reached out to us for that interview.” Indeed, it’s not every day that the vice president calls a small-market television news station looking to chat. The station was pleased with the high-level access, but the brief video interview backfired on Harris and has become the first public stumble in her short tenure as vice president. Good morning, and welcom...

Art, literature, politics and history come together once again this September at the Kennedy Summer School in New Ross, Wexford. American and Irish academics, writers and policy experts will converge to look back on and look ahead to some of the key issues in the American-Irish relationship. On Thursday, September 8, the proceedings will kick off with an opening address from U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Kevin O’Malley, as well as a keynote address by Prof. Robert Dowling. Dowling is the leading...

Rating Reporting A January 20 2021 image of Bernie Sanders sitting (with mittens) at United States President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony went instantly viral as a meme, and among responses was a since-deleted tweet — labeled “Still the best picture of # Berniesanders sitting though” and purportedly depicting a young Sanders at a protest for racial justice: On Facebook, screenshots of the deleted tweet above circulated widely (as seen in a search for images): Context: Bernie Sander...

A negative of a photo of Bernie Sanders' arrest in August 1963 was found in the Chicago Tribune's archives.