It’s only Tuesday morning and already this week is looking to outpace last week for sheer volume of news. Yesterday, Donald Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court for a stay in his election interference trial. This morning, the Senate passed a foreign aid package which the House seems primed to reject. Later today, the House may vote on whether or not to impeach Homeland Secretary Mayorkas. Four of Donald Trump’s court cases have hearings of one sort or another scheduled for this week. And that’s just the news we’re expecting.

I might have been tempted to pick a column on any one of those topics today, but I found one less exhausting and more worthwhile on the economy. The disparity between the decent-to-good economic indicators and President Biden’s low approval ratings continues to puzzle some journalists and commentators. I linked to a piece on this a couple weeks ago and wanted to come back to it because, as today’s featured columnist proves, there are answers to this question beyond the usual guesses. As the year goes on and more economic news comes in, we’ll see how right he is, but he’s working off a decent amount of data. That’s more than a lot of pundits can say, and it’s always a good place to start.