Joe Biden's cabinet of curiosities.
President-elect Joe Biden’s first wave of personnel appointments to his administration-in-waiting was predictable, competent, and boring, in accordance with the message that won him more than 51 percent of the popular vote. Tony Blinken was President Barack Obama’s deputy secretary of state, and he will be Biden’s secretary of state. Janet Yellen chaired President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, was picked by Obama to chair the Federal Reserve, and will complete the economic policy triumvirate by serving as Biden’s Treasury secretary. Jake Sullivan was Vice President Bi...