Before Tonight's Democratic Debate in Los Angeles

(via NBC News): "The debate, which is being co-hosted by PBS NewsHour and Politico, is being held on the campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. It's scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET and run approximately three hours. There will be three commercial breaks, the hosts say."

Moderators: Judy Woodruff, Amna Nawaz and Yamiche Alcindor of PBS NewsHour and Tim Alberta from POLITICO

Dane Stangler, PPI Director of Policy Innovation

The Democrats Should Be Talking About This Tonight

Most of the seven debate participants would be speechless, at least momentarily, before quickly running through a litany of actions they would take — some of which are tangential to entrepreneurship. A few of them would talk about the virtues of small business before bashing the evils of big business.

Attention Democrats: UK Elections Not Only Cautionary Tale from Europe

We're not just talking about last week’s UK elections, which saw Labour’s far left-wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn, get crushed by Brexiteer Boris Johnson. Democrats must also draw useful lessons from the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP25) in Madrid, which by all accounts failed to kickstart progress toward implementing the Paris Climate Accords.

Jason Gold, PPI Senior Fellow

Ben Ritz, Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future

Proposal Calls For New Formula To Calculate Social Security Benefit

The Democratic presidential hopefuls will meet for their sixth debate on Thursday, and Ben Ritz is still waiting to hear a discussion about what he says is the biggest issue facing Social Security—how to plug the existing shortfall.

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