Officially, the Constitution assigned the vice president only two jobs. The first was serving as presiding officer of the Senate, where the VP has the power to cast tie-breaking votes. The second ...

No vice president was more entrapped by his predecessor ... which helped unify the party at a time when Biden’s record on race in the 1990s, including his support for the crime bill, was fueling ...

Another vice president, John Nance Garner, was famously quoted as saying it wasn't "worth a bucket of warm spit" (though his exact phrase remains in dispute). Yet vice presidents, who are first in ...