No. 57-1, January 2025
Index
- An Iron Hand Loses Its Grip: Mitch McConnell wielded power deftly for decades, only to see his party and the institution he loved fracture around him.
- Champion the Self-Employed.
- 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.
- Fire the Contractors.
- Free College for the Working Class.
- Gray Expectations: Caring for my aging father taught me about the massive holes in America's safety net for the elderly.
- Grunge Grrrls: A look back at the audacious, rule-breaking women of '90s alt-rock and the forces that erased their moment of glory.
- In Sherman's Wake: The hidden story of enslaved Georgians who, however briefly, seized freedom during the Union general's famous march to the sea.
- Make Employers Secure the Border.
- Make Transportation Fair Again: From cramped seats to captive shippers to stranded cities, re-regulating airlines, rail, and trucking could revive America's heartland.
- Medicare Prices for All.
- Open a New Front for Racial Justice.
- Party Animal: Martin Van Buren, father of the Democrats, knew that the Founders were wrong about partisan politics.
- Secretary of Enablement: Robert McNamara's subservience to Lyndon Johnson led America to disaster in Vietnam.
- Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself.
- 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.