A reminder: at 3:00 EDT today, Phillip Longman will be on MSNBC’s The Cycle to discuss his piece from the July/August issue of the Washington Monthly on American Stakeholder Accounts, entitled “How To Save Our Kids From Poverty In Old Age.” Tune in if you can.

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.