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US President Joe Biden at a Las Vegas supermarket earlier this week, just before his COVID diagnosis. Susan Walsh/AP/AAP

Joe Biden has COVID. Here’s what someone over 80 can expect

Now there’s more speculation about US President Joe Biden’s health. But a COVID diagnosis in 2024 is nothing like one back in 2020, even for someone of his age.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is helped off the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Attempted assassination of Trump: The long history of violence against U.S. presidents

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump adds to the long history of presidents and presidential candidates in the United States who have been the victims of gun violence.
Sports betting companies offer wagers on who will clinch a party’s presidential nomination, which candidate will win the election and much more. kmaassrock/E+/Getty Images

Odds are that gambling on the Biden/Trump competition will further reduce the presidential campaign to a horse race

Overseas-based sports betting companies offer wagers in the US on who will clinch a party’s presidential nomination and which candidate will win the election. What does this mean for democracy?
President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participate in a presidential debate on June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. Biden’s been faced with growing calls to exit the race ever since. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Joe Biden’s refusal to step aside illustrates the political dangers of ‘death denial’

Joe Biden’s refusal to grapple with his looming mortality brings the world dangerously close to another Republican presidency rife with Donald Trump’s many denials and resentments.
President Joe Biden, left, and first lady Jill Biden depart following a presidential debate with Donald Trump on June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

‘The immortal Gods alone have neither age nor death’: Wisdom from Greek tragedies for Joe Biden

In the ugly spectacle of American politics, it’s hard to keep humanity in sight. But literature, says a poet and scholar of the classics, can remind us of what we know about growing old.

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