Editorial

For all presidents, naming federal judges is one of the most critical ways they leave their mark on history. Donald Trump failed to keep most of his campaign promises, but there’s one he did -- stacking the courts with young, conservative-minded jurists, 231 of them in all, including three Supreme Court justices.

O ne day in 1951, during Willie Mays’ rookie season, my father took me to the Polo Grounds in Manhattan to see him play. What I recall most vividly is emerging from a shadowy corridor under the stands into the astonishing sunlit green of the outfield grass. The sheer expanse of a major league playing field is something you’re not prepared for as a child.

F or more than two years now, Republicans have been predicting that President Joe Biden’s big-spending policies will crash the U.S. economy into recession. It hasn’t happened yet, although the country did experience two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth -- a widely accepted definition of recession -- in the first and second quarters of 2022. But the economy climbed back into positive growth territory in the next quarter and has stayed there since.