The Media’s Finest Hour

Amid the Afghanistan debacle, Team Biden is caught flat-footed as, for once, a typically compliant press holds him to account.

Poor Ron Klain.

It’s not a good sign when a White House chief of staff to a Democratic president wants to retweet favorable news coverage and all he can find is the least credible and most slavishly loyal commentators on the Internet.

The Afghanistan fiasco has created that most disorienting and discomfiting experience for a progressive administration — a serious bout of critical media coverage immune to White House spin and determined to...