What Went Down During President Biden’s Speech To Congress

This was a pretty typical speech in, as Sarah mentioned, a still very abnormal time in our country. I’m not sure Americans have a lot of mental capacity for a laundry list of policies on everything from climate change to gun reform. The pandemic (and its economic impacts) and the continued ramifications of systemic racism loom so large at this moment that a “normal” speech felt kind of … abnormal.