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President Joe Biden, pictured here on the South Lawn of the White House in October, says the Equal Rights Amendment “has become part of our Constitution.”

White House

Biden creates constitutional consternation on Equal Rights Amendment

National Archives holds firm that 1982 ratification deadline remains binding

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 17, 2025 at 3:39pm

Signs showing support for both Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump along a rural highway on Sept. 26 near Traverse City, Mich.

Campaigns

Harris, Biden sharpen attacks on Trump as GOP nominee courts women voters

By John T. Bennett
Posted October 16, 2024 at 1:20pm
President Joe Biden speaks at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington on Friday.

White House

Biden kicks off outreach to Black voters as protest threat looms at Morehouse

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 17, 2024 at 2:22pm
Barack Obama, then a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, speaks to the crowd at the Democratic National Convention in Boston on July 27, 2004.

Opinion

Do leaders realize Americans who don’t vote for them are still Americans?

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted January 25, 2024 at 6:00am
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington.

To honor Dr. King, GOP should honor what he really believed in

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted January 18, 2024 at 6:00am
President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event Monday in Charleston, S.C. at Emanuel AME Church, the site of a 2015 shooting massacre perpetrated by a white supremacist.

For history-challenged candidates, Civil War source material is nearby

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted January 11, 2024 at 6:00am
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks and Rep. James E. Clyburn of South Carolina applauds in Columbia, S.C., after Biden won the state primary on Feb. 29, 2020.

Biden to take campaign against Trump to church where white gunman killed nine

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 3, 2024 at 5:00am
The Rosa Parks statue in the Capitol's Statuary Hall in June 2021.

A summer of reflection — and fears of history repeating itself

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted September 6, 2023 at 6:00am
Rep. David Cicilline says Congress should update the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to cover sexual orientation and gender identity.

Democrats preview same-sex marriage, contraception votes at hearing

By Michael Macagnone
Posted July 14, 2022 at 3:57pm
President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., one of 17 recipients to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday.

Biden medal picks push partisan issues, and bipartisanship

By Chris Cioffi
Posted July 7, 2022 at 6:15pm