Guest view: Moving forward means finding common ground

I don’t know about you, but I [wasn’t] inclined to make many predictions about the outcome of the midterm elections this year.

There’s one prediction, though, that I think is safe: After the dust has cleared, Congress will be narrowly divided and President Biden will have to work hard to govern effectively. Whether he can do so will depend on plenty of different factors, but none will be more important than his relationship with members of both parties in Congress.

To the extent that Americans think about how national policy is developed, they tend to focus on the president and his positions....