From the editor | January 15

The most fiery moment of last night's Democratic debate came after it ended, when Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders appeared to have a tense exchange. But read between the lines and there was much to pick apart, as strategist Adrienne Elrod writes today. As always, I'd love to hear your take — just hit reply.

Fay Schlesinger, OZY Managing Editor

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Universal Family Care: Behind the Latest ‘For All’ Designed to Rethink Aging

Advocate Josie Kalipeni is pushing a policy that could emerge as the next universal basic income.

Josie Kalipeni, a 38-year-old Malawian immigrant, is piecing together an ambitious American ideal that’s not yet entered the policy mainstream: universal family care. Universal care accounts would function like a multipurpose Social Security insurance fund: One pays directly into it over a lifetime — ideally, in Kalipeni’s mind, with the government matching contributions — and could draw from it to pay for child care, take time off work to care for ill parents or pay a home health care worker to support a relative with disabilities.

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Democrats Are Still Playing ‘Iowa Nice’ … for the Cameras

Tuesday's debate in Des Moines was a mostly tame, policy-focused affair.

Adrienne Elrod, a Democratic strategist and former senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016, analyzes last night's debate.

Conventional wisdom dictates the final debate before the first-in-the-nation caucus would be anything but lackluster. But Tuesday’s face-off in Des Moines proved otherwise. The presidential candidates did not take the bait, instead engaging in a two-hour conversation that was as tame and friendly as it gets. Until the microphones were turned off, that is.

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