Trump’s dismemberment of the Department of Education provides a “mirror-image roadmap” for the next administration, according to Kevin Carey (@kevincarey1).

The Department of Children and Learning wouldn’t just run our school system. It would also support working parents to access childcare, provide school lunches, and so on. And no, none of this would come at the cost of local control.

As students and educators return to school, the issues impacting the U.S. education system are front of mind: school closures, AI, book bans, literacy rates, the mental health crisis. All of these topics populate the zeitgeist, but where is comprehensive policy to tackle them?

Whether AI is to blame or not, recent graduates are entering a workforce that mirrors the Great Recession. This won’t just impact these new grads for a few years.

Gene Sperling @genebsperling) and Josh Waldman (@joshfwaldman) believe that if we don’t act soon to improve these conditions, Gen Z will be facing monumental lifetime earnings losses, higher divorce rates, and even shorter life expectancy.

At long last, the Supreme Court has struck down President Trump’s attempts to restrict mail-in voting. But this ruling was a rare win for democracy at a time when the conservative supermajority has taken the Court in a distinctly anti-democratic direction.

In “How the Supreme Court is Attacking Democracy,” Daniel Hanley (@danielahanley) details the Court’s leading role in the conservative attack on our federal administrative and regulatory agencies, and the dire consequences of that assault.