New York Times (February 20)
“The nation’s energy delivery system, not just in Texas but everywhere, needs a radical overhaul if it is to withstand future shocks and play the role that President Biden has assigned it in the battle against climate change.”
The Economist (January 30)
“No part of the world matters more to America’s interests than Asia, and no part stands to lose so much from an American retreat.” As he sets about repairing four years of Trump damage, Joe Biden will find many receptive. “None of China’s neighbours wants it to call all the military and economic shots,” but “the trick for President Joe Biden will be to restore faith in America without asking Asian countries to take its side openly against China.”
Tags: Asia, Biden, China, Damage, Economic shots, Interests, Military, Receptive, Repairing, Restore, Retreat, Trump, U.S.
Los Angeles Times (January 21)
“On the first day of the Biden administration, we had already seen something almost entirely missing from Washington over the last four years: A-list stars. Also, music.” Whereas “Trump treated the arts as an adversary. Biden’s first day told a different story.”
Tags: A-list stars, Adversary, Arts, Biden, Music, Trump, Washington
Washington Post (January 19)
“The challenge — and the opportunity — for Joe Biden is that he succeeds the worst president in U.S. history. Donald Trump’s tenure was characterized by colossal incompetence and mind-numbing indifference to the public good.” As a result, the new president will face the biggest challenges since Franklin D. Roosevelt. “Paradoxically, by taking over at such a low point in our history, Biden is set up for success” and his approval rating is already “higher than Trump’s ever was.”
Tags: Biden, Challenge, Incompetence, Indifference, Opportunity, Public good, Roosevelt, Success, Trump, Worst
Reuters (January 14)
“Firms from JPMorgan to AT&T are rethinking political donations after last week’s Capitol violence…. The storming of the seat of U.S. government has spurred a sea change in corporate America. AT&T, the biggest company spender in the last election cycle… is suspending political donations to Republican lawmakers who objected without evidence to the November presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump. Others, like JPMorgan, paused their giving altogether to reassess their strategy.”
Tags: AT&T, Biden, Capitol, Donations, Election cycle, Government, JPMorgan, Republicans, Rethinking, Trump, U.S., Violence
LA Times (January 13)
“Trump was rightly impeached. Now the Senate must do its job and convict…. There is no reasonable way to defend how Trump undermined the public’s faith in elections for his own gain, or how he recklessly stoked the passions of his followers in the hope of intimidating Congress into voiding Biden’s win.”
Tags: Biden, Congress, Convict, Defend, Elections, Gain, Impeached, Intimidating, Passions, Reasonable, Recklessly, Senate, Trump, Undermined
Wall Street Journal (January 1)
“The crackdown continues in Hong Kong, and this week the Chinese government made an example of the territory’s most prominent political prisoners.” Beijing has now adopted “Soviet or North Korean behavior, and we hope that Joe Biden and his officials will speak plainly against it.”
Tags: Behavior, Beijing, Biden, Chinese, Crackdown, Government, Hong Kong, North Korean, Political prisoners, Prominent, Soviet, Territory
New York Times (December 28)
“Joe Biden takes climate change seriously. His administration’s staffing shows how seriously the incoming president takes this issue.”
Tags: Administration, Biden, Climate change, Incoming, Seriously, Staffing
Car & Driver (November 24)
“General Motors has reversed its decision to back the Trump administration’s fight to force California, along with 12 other states, to comply with the less stringent fuel-efficiency standards Trump’s EPA put into place in 2018 for 2022 to 2025. The move signals that GM expects President-Elect Joe Biden to take a much different stance on emissions regulations…. Ford, GM’s crosstown rival, had backed California from the beginning.”
Tags: Biden, California, Comply, Emissions, EPA, Fight, Ford, Fuel efficiency, Less stringent, Regulations, Reversed, Standards, Trump
Politico (November 10)
“Forty-eight hours after Joe Biden emerged as the winner of the U.S. presidential election, Europe was still basking in the afterglow.” Even conservatives whose “traditional ties” with “the Republican Party frayed when Trump came to power.”
Tags: Afterglow, Basking, Biden, Conservatives. Traditional ties, Europe, Frayed, Power, Presidential election, Republican Party, Trump, U.S., Winner
