It won’t be easy, but there are four concrete steps that Biden can take now that would help relieve pressures in the system and minimize the trauma to children at the border.

As we face the growing threat of alarming virus variants, the best tools we still have in the race to vaccinate a majority of Americans continue to be mask-wearing and physical distancing. Here’s why.

“Every child — regardless of socioeconomic status — deserves to be a success story. Period.”

In my latest book, The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First Century America, I examine our nation’s safety nets and special programs that are designed to protect and nurture our most vulnerable kids, but that too often fail to do so.