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• Corporate-Proof the Care Economy: Before the next wave of federal investment in child and elder care, we need a plan to stop big corporations from capturing those nascent markets and turning their services into nightmares for working class families.
• Secretary of Enablement: Robert McNamara's subservience to Lyndon Johnson led America to disaster in Vietnam.
• Medicare Prices for All.
• Grunge Grrrls: A look back at the audacious, rule-breaking women of '90s alt-rock and the forces that erased their moment of glory.
• Gray Expectations: Caring for my aging father taught me about the massive holes in America's safety net for the elderly.
• Tutorize, Don't Privatize, Public Schools: The coming GOP effort to privatize public education could be a golden political opportunity for Democrats if they fight it hard and propose a better plan to improve the nation's schools--a plan that, as of now, they don't have.
• Champion the Self-Employed.
• Open a New Front for Racial Justice.
• Make Transportation Fair Again: From cramped seats to captive shippers to stranded cities, re-regulating airlines, rail, and trucking could revive America's heartland.
• Fire the Contractors.

Featured documents

• The Diary of H.L. Mencken.
• Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America.
• Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration.
• Open the doors to college.
• Beware of Republicans bearing voting rights suits.
• Lebanon's Precarious Future.
• Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment.
• For God, Country and Coca Cola.
• The best and the worst of American unions.
• Keeper of the Gate.