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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.(LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail)
• 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.(Pretend We're Dead: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the '90s)
• Gray Expectations: Caring for my aging father taught me about the massive holes in America's safety net for the elderly.(Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age)
• Fire the Contractors.
• 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.

Featured documents

• Taking us for a ride.
• The Diary of H.L. Mencken.
• Filed away.
• Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment.
• Can we please put some bankers in jail now?
• Why the party of the people has a grassroots problem.
• What a way to go: Sarah Vowell's morbidly funny tour of presidential assassination sites.
• The Washington Monthy's Monthly Journalism Award.
• Ever wonder why we put innocent people on death row?
• Lincoln the Politician: The president most known for his moral vision was also a master political operator.