Will Democrats’ “Dianne Feinstein problem provoke a rethink of the wisdom of renominating Joe Biden?” asks The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel. The prolonged absence of the senator, 89, “leaves the Judiciary Committee deadlocked, unable to greenlight Mr. Biden’s nominees.” Why didn’t Dems “act to avoid this situation” before it grew critical? “Stories of Ms. Feinstein’s cognitive struggles” date back years. “The media is suggesting Republicans have a duty” to help Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pass a resolution to let another Dem fill her Judiciary seat. “They don’t. This situation is a consequence of a close midterm election and Democrats’ decision to ignore the risks of such a scenario.” And Biden’s “decline has become impossible to ignore.” Dems should “view the Feinstein moment as a warning of the danger they are courting by continuing to close their eyes to what the rest of the country so clearly sees.”

Joe “Biden is right,” snarks the Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Stiles. “Chicago is a great choice to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention.” It will highlight “the country’s ‘historic progress’ on his watch” via “rampant crime” — “the city’s murder rate has jumped nearly 40 percent since 2019” under “George Soros-backed district attorney” Kim Foxx. Don’t forget “crippling taxes.” Or that it’s “routinely rated the most corrupt city in America,” and its “residents (and businesses)” are fleeing “at a rapid pace.” There’s no “more fitting location” to showcase Biden’s “vision for America’s future.”

The Environmental Protection Agency just announced “updated limits on car and truck emissions” and requirements that “as many as 60 percent” of new vehicles be electric by 2030 and 67% by 2032, reports Reason’s Joe Lancaster. “It’s entirely inappropriate for the government to make such mandates,” yet doing so “also may hinder” progress on electric-vehicle technology by disincentivizing innovation. Last year, EVs made up just 5.6% of auto sales, with the industry “struggling to reach scale.” And “battery technology is still evolving,” Axios notes, “meaning the U.S. may be at risk of building mines and factories to produce batteries that wind up being obsolete in a decade.” By imposing such a “breakneck timeline,” warns Lancaster, “the EPA is forcing automakers to choose production over innovation.”

“Maybe Niccolò Machiavelli was not the first political consultant, but he remains one of the best. Ron DeSantis might solicit his advice” on “whether a 2024 campaign for the White House is wise,” suggests Daniel McCarthy at Spectator World. You might think the “lesson” is “obvious: seize the moment. She’s yours for the taking — if you’re bold.” But Machiavelli knew “Fortune favors the bold” was “a Latin maxim” that “Virgil puts in the mouth of the Italian warlord Turnus shortly before the hero Aeneas kills him.” DeSantis’ “cards are stronger if he waits until 2028. Beating Trump for the GOP nomination would be difficult,” and even if he did, “a vengeful Trump” will “do everything in his power to sabotage” him in November. And “Republicans have underestimated” Joe Biden “to their sorrow before, first in 2020” and “again last year.” It’s 2028 that gives “a well-prepared DeSantis a clear shot.” 

“The American Psychological Association once acknowledged bias against Asian Americans in college admissions”; no more, laments Renu Mukherjee in City Journal. A decade-old APA essay argued counselors and elite schools telling Asian-American students “repeatedly” that “being of Asian origin is bad” and “they’ll be discriminated against because of it” could harm their “racial and ethnic identity development and mental health.” But the APA “didn’t mention” the issue in the brief it submitted in Supreme Court cases challenging “race-based admissions policies.” Instead, it “detailed” the “‘stresses of discrimination, prejudice, and underrepresentation, and the compounding impact of isolation’ that psychologists” think ending such policies “would have on minorities ‘underrepresented’ in higher education, namely blacks and Latinos.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board