The Biden Administration: Now In Charge
Since the inauguration on Wednesday, Joe Biden is officially the president of the United States. So what does that mean? Well, his White House is a refreshing and inspiring return to a normal, competent operation, not a game show, as new press secretary Jen Psaki and the return of Dr. Anthony Fauci has shown us. We've reached the elusive goal of a White House that feels like what a White House should be. It's a completely new government that's immediately overturning a lot of the previous administration's policies, from rejoining the WHO and Paris Climate Accord, to ending the Muslim ban; they're also instituting a lot of measures to actually respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, like a mask mandate, the Defense Production Act, working on increasing vaccine access and so on. His plan for the pandemic, and his economic proposals, most notably his trillion-dollar stimulus bill, are viable plans addressing the core problems underlying crises. Finally, and it's a high bar to reach, but Biden needs to have the moral leadership of MLK and the political leadership of Lyndon Johnson to truly step up to the moment and restore unity in such a fractured time.