Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Pick Your Fights Carefully, Joe Biden

Presidents can’t solve every problem and voters don’t reward them for trying.

May 17, 2021 at 11:30 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

Not now, thanks.
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I write today in praise of presidential inaction.