A Year In, Joe Biden Is Finally Inhabiting the Role of President

There is no dressing it up: Year one of Joe Biden’s presidency is ending badly. The fresh humiliation of failing to get a voting rights bill through the Senate arrived against a backdrop of spiking inflation and COVID case counts; meanwhile, Build Back Better, another signature Biden legislative initiative, remains stranded in Manchin–Sinema limbo, and the conservative Supreme Court majority blocked the administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses. Biden’s job approval rating, at 35% in a Quinnipiac poll last week, ties him with his predecessor for the lowest in at least seven decades at the end of the president’s first… Read Full Article