Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Supply-Chain Woes Add to Biden’s Burdens

Unrealistic expectations confound every president. But they also create opportunities.

October 12, 2021 at 11:34 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.

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What should President Joe Biden be doing about the supply-chain problems that have become critical to the economy? As it happens, it’s a question that tells us quite a bit about the presidency. In fact, I was planning to write about it when I came across a tweet from the journalist Jonathan Cohn: