Democrats may be hoping that Donald Trump’s legal problems will tank his re-election prospects, but they may be betting on the wrong horse. Their focus on Trump becoming the GOP nominee and easy to defeat again ignores the perception among a majority of voters — including Democrats — that Joe Biden is weak and too old for a second term.

Mainstream punditry continues to place enormous importance on that Times/Siena poll “finding” that Biden is in trouble. Both legal political prediction markets, PredictIt and Iowa, say it’s quite the contrary.

In elections since last year’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, in which the Supreme Court overturned the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion, Democrats clearly turned their own outrage into a rallying cry — and votes.

As a high priest of woke progressivism, Coates was always going to be a fierce critic of Israel. He is a particularly instructive instance, though, of trying to take the Left’s racial categories here at home and apply them to a conflict with its own fraught dynamics established long ago.

Keeping with our American model of individualism, each of us can look into our own hearts and ask whether we have done enough to move toward racial justice.