It is no secret that childcare in the US is, as Elliot Haspel puts it, “a hellscape.” Elliot’s new book, Raising a Nation: 10 Reasons Every American Has a Stake in Child Care for All, is a welcome addition to the growing and necessary conversation about our need for universal childcare. As Elliot lays out in the book, we need to do the in-the-weeds work of building a universal childcare policy, yes—but we also need to build the case for it.