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January/February/March 2025 Print Edition

January/February/March 2025
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Make Employers Secure the Border

When Trump’s cruel treatment of immigration backfires—and it will—liberals need a more humane alternative. Here’s one: tough restraints on companies that hire undocumented migrants combined with generous opportunities for those migrants to become legal.
by Bill Scher

Open a New Front for Racial Justice

The decades-long effort to push elite colleges to be more diverse has failed. Here’s a better strategy: demand more support for the underfunded colleges that already graduate most Black and Hispanic students, and plenty of white students as well.
by Paul Glastris

Champion the Self-Employed

Gig workers, contractors, and micro business owners are America’s fastest-growing workforce. Both parties have ignored their plight. Democrats need to offer them portable benefits and protections from monopoly corporations that crush them.
by Will Norris

Podcast

Winning Working Class Americans – Part I (w/ Paul Glastris) – Washington Monthly

  1. Winning Working Class Americans – Part I (w/ Paul Glastris)
  2. Pete Hegseth and the Conservative Assault on Veterans' Healthcare
  3. Born in America but not a Citizen? The Looming Threat to Birthright Citizenship
  4. Trump's dangerous plan for recess appointments

Education

Books

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.

by Allen C. Guelzo

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