This past week has been full of news, including the Jan. 6 hearings and bipartisan agreement on a gun violence bill. The Supreme Court handed down a major decision on church and state, with landmark rulings on guns and abortion coming soon ― maybe even this week.

HuffPost has been all over these stories if you need to catch up. I’d especially recommend last week’s series imagining a post-Roe America ― including Alanna Vagianos on how conservatives are trying to cut off access to abortion pills, Travis Waldron on the connections between anti-abortion and anti-democracy movements, and Nathalie Baptiste on the disproportionate impact abortion bans have on Black women.

But for today’s newsletter, I’d like to write about something else that really should be getting more coverage: the crisis in American child care, which is causing tangible, serious hardship for millions of parents and their kids.

About one in three families with young […]