Is Biden’s Bipartisan Optimism Naive, or Exactly What the Country Needs?

The recent news about President-elect Joe Biden seems all business: cabinet appointments, pandemic plans, transition teams. But who is Joe Biden, the person? And what kind of president will he be?

That’s what Evan Osnos set out to explore in his new biography Joe Biden: The Life, The Run, and What Matters Now. Joe Biden is a man who’s faced enormous personal tragedy and devoted himself to public service for most of his adult life. Yet one of the paradoxes of a public figure is that often the real person...