First Thing election special: if Biden wins, what will his first 100 days look like?

If Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump next week, he will take office during a global pandemic and America’s most serious economic crisis for a century. And when he’s dealt with those, he will still have to rebuild US relationships abroad, grapple with the nation’s increasingly dysfunctional democratic institutions – and face the existential threat of climate change.

Few presidents have faced such a daunting task in their first 100 days, write Daniel Strauss and Julian Borger – yet these spiralling crises also present an opportunity to make sweeping and ambitious...