The Weekly Sift

I’m writing a lot today. There were two really big stories this week, each of which deserves a featured post: the Supreme Court’s immunity decision and the Biden situation. But as I wrote about Biden, the story split into two pieces: There’s the substantive matter of what we can know about Biden’s capabilities and what Democrats should do with that knowledge, and then there’s the major-media stampede to push Biden out of the race. (When I fired up my NYT app one day this week, the six articles at the top of the page were all addressing some aspect of the push-Biden-out campaign.) So the media is getting its own article this week.

That’s three featured posts, which I don’t think I’ve ever done before.

Here’s how I see my day playing out: The Supreme Court article is almost ready to go, so it should be out before 9 EDT. The substantive Biden article is barely started, because I wanted to wait to see what top Democrats might say over the weekend, so it might not be out until 11. The media article is mostly done, but I want it to come out after the substantive article, so that substantive comments about Biden will wind up attached to the right article. (I’m going to try to make the media article agnostic about Biden’s capabilities or whether he should drop out.) So that should happen around noon or so.

Then there’s the weekly summary, which has trivial things to cover like the government-changing elections in the UK and France. (And yes, I’ll explain how the two rounds of French parliamentary elections work.) Let’s aim for 1 on that.