Political Glance
So what did Biden achieve and will it endure? His domestic successes are impressive. He revived a pandemic-stricken economy, created 16m jobs, boosted wages, new businesses and infrastructure spending, reduced the murder rate and curbed illegal immigration. His Inflation Reduction Act slashed healthcare costs and included $400bn to tackle the climate crisis. Stock markets are booming.
Hardly the national “disaster” his successor, Donald Trump, decries. Yet Biden was his own worst enemy. He pooh-poohed the impact on voters of high inflation. In denial about his physical and mental decline, he sought a second term after implying, in 2020, that he would not. He insisted that he could beat Trump, despite his dreadful poll numbers, then grudgingly gave Kamala Harris a hospital pass. Now he is a hiatus in the era of Trump. Trump may very possibly squander the economic gains of the past four years. In foreign policy, too, he could make many problems worse. The difference is that, in international affairs, Biden’s legacy borders on abysmal....
Special counsel Jack Smith
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected 
