The FBI may well have good answers. Congress should compel the Bureau to give them, on the record, with dates and with the “triggers” unredacted, so we can all judge whether the Bureau’s conduct in this area passes constitutional muster.

Previewing ballot measures on taxes, criminal justice, voter identification, natural gas, the right to bear arms and more. 

To talk up inflation’s fiscal benefits while voters are this angry about prices, weeks before the midterms, is bizarre as a matter of politics and economics. Inflation can make creditors absorb part of yesterday’s borrowing, but it cannot spare politicians the decisions needed to finance promises going forward.