President Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday, July 24, 2024.Mother Jones illustration; Susan Walsh/AP

“I revere this office, but I love my country more.”

The line was perhaps the defining takeaway of President Joe Biden’s Thursday night address to the nation, his first since announcing his decision to drop out of the presidential race. Even though the president had the personal ambition to run again, he understood, with piercing clarity, that the White House carried stakes that transcended........

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