There's some very good work here, though, on the whole, the show grapples with crucial political issues in an indirect way.

"The public is too dumb to grapple with such issues."

That is, the social studies would have young citizens - many of them future leaders - "grapple with great issues."

But the company must now grapple with several major issues that arguably are of its own creation.

Instead of grappling with real issues, they offered hollow virtues.

Congress is still grappling with fiscal issues from last year.

All the books grapple with moral and social issues.

People have complained for years that campaigns do not grapple with issues of government.

Reading these papers, one does occasionally sense an eager young mind grappling with religious issues.

But our political system doesn't seem able to grapple with scientific issues like climate.