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Commentary: Bruce Lesley - Children are an issue that can unite country Bruce Lesley FacebookTwitterEmail 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...

Commentary: Llewellyn King - Biden should avoid wading too far, too fast Llewellyn King FacebookTwitterEmail It was a good day. Warm in its content. Soft in its delivery. Kindly in its message. Generous in its intentions. Healing in its purpose. Implementing the soaring hopes of President Joe Biden’s inauguration began immediately. Maybe too immediately, too fast, and with actions that were too sweeping. Biden signed 17 executive orders, which suggested an underlying philosophy of “bring it on.” Biden doesn’t need to open hostilities on all possible fronts at once. He needs to pick hi...

Commentary: Howard Husock - The e-waste problem - and opportunity Howard Husock FacebookTwitterEmail One of the big hits of the holiday sales season was the new high-end iPhone 12. When it launched in October, some 2 million were pre-ordered in just 24 hours. But a lot of gift-wrapped new phones also meant a lot of old phones discarded. If the past is any guide, many were simply thrown out in the trash. This might be good news for Apple, but it’s bad news for the environment, as those phones contain rare earth metals and other materials that act as contaminants. Yet those elements could be ...

Point & counterpoint | New administration: Chris Talgo - Brace yourself, change is coming Chris Talgo FacebookTwitterEmail The Biden administration enters the Oval Office today in the midst of a pandemic and economic crisis, and with the Democrats in control of both houses of Congress, which means that big policy changes are afoot in the United States. First, the Biden administration will use the economic crisis at hand to pursue a domestic policy platform that will be the mirror opposite of the Trump administration’s free-market, federalist program. Second, in stark contrast to the Trump a...

Commentary: Michael Rubin - To keep pressure on Iran, take a cue from Trump Michael Rubin FacebookTwitterEmail “If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations,” Joe Biden promised in a policy essay just weeks before winning the presidential elections. While Biden recognizes the threat of Iran’s nuclear program, his team’s animosity toward Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s maximum pressure strategy risks snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Partisan naysayers who call ‘maxi...