How a left turn could save Joe Biden — and the country

Even as the crisis in Ukraine unfolds, the president needs to address issues that hit close to home

President Biden.
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It's been a tough first year for Joe Biden.

During these 13 months, he's had to fight a historically lethal pandemic, manage the rocky pullout from Afghanistan, deal with soaring inflation, and face the torpedoing of both his Build Back Better agenda and voting rights legislation.

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Kevin Morrow

Kevin Morrow is a freelance writer, copy editor, researcher, historian, and translator living in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. His writing has appeared in The New York Times's "Opinionator" blog, The Washington Times, the Washington ExaminerWorld War II America in World War IICivil War Times Illustrated, and on Medium.com. He is also the author and editor of Germany's Covert War in the Middle East: Espionage, Propaganda, and Diplomacy in World War I and is working on his second book, As a Combat Pilot at the Suez Canal, an annotated translation of a war memoir by Hans Henkelburg.