President Joe Biden walks from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington to board Marine One for a trip to New York, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. “Yes, inflation surged. Yes, the nation is still bitterly divided. But things would have been immeasurably worse if the struggling places were left to founder in the same economic mire. The Biden policies were more than worth it,” writes New York Times columnist David Brooks. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)