Big problems, consensus solutions: Why so hard for Congress to act?

“On issues from gun safety to abortion, measures with broad public support have gotten nowhere on Capitol Hill. Can advocacy and a shift in assumptions overcome systemic dysfunction?

Do something!” a protester cried out as President Joe Biden left a church service Sunday in Uvalde, Texas.

“We will,” the president responded, pointing to the demonstrators as he climbed into his limousine. 

For the second time this month, President Biden and the first lady visited a grieving community following a gun massacre – first in Buffalo, New York, where a racist...