Commentary: Bruce Lesley - Children are an issue that can unite country
Bruce Lesley
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Joe Biden was inaugurated on Jan. 20 as our nation’s 46th president. But the insurrection at the Capitol aimed at derailing this process made clear that our new chief executive’s first order of business will be overcoming a historic divide.
President Biden must breach seemingly intractable differences over values, priorities and even facts themselves if he is to tackle the country’s growing crises of inequity, poverty, the economy and a raging pandemic. Fortunately, there is an issue around which he can rally almost all Americans: The well-being of our nation’s 74 million children.