In January, Democracy brought together thinkers from across the broad left-of-center spectrum during the journal’s “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” conference, held in Washington D.C. During the one-day conference panelists and speakers tried to answer that question, exploring areas of disagreement and investigating where we can still find common ground or compromise.

The result was a day full of intense conversations and ambitious ideas of how we can make our country better.

Now, you can enjoy those conversations with the full video recordings available on YouTube and here on Democracy’s website:

Three-Minute Pitches

Democracy asked policy thinkers: “If you could order a presidential administration to do one specific thing to improve the lives of working people, what would it be?” We gave them just three minutes to give their answers.

Elizabeth Garlow on a Time-Honoring Policy Agenda

Nick Hanauer on Reforming Social Security

Alex Jacquez on Creating an American Health Service

Liam Kerr on Supporting Childhood Literacy

Jim Kessler on Making Middle-Class Millionaires

Thea Lee on Global Labor Protections

Candace Milner on Public Banks

Heidi Shierholz on Fixing the Affordability Crisis

Isabel Sawhill on Reforming the Tax System to Help the Middle and Working Class

Matt Stoller on Ending Price Discrimination

Shayna Strom on Equitable Deployment of AI

Steven Teles on Industrial Policy for Housing Construction

Panel Conversations

Working People’s Lives: Can We Make Them Better—and Will They Notice?

This panel included Hannah Garden-Monheit of the American Economic Liberties Project, John Halpin of The Liberal Patriot, Zach Moller of Third Way, and Damon Silvers, a senior consultant at AFL-CIO. EJ Dionne, a columnist at the New York Times, moderated their discussion.

Abundance and Social Democracy: Enemies or Allies?

This panel included Baillee Brown of Inclusive Abundance, Jerusalem Demsas of The Argument, Mike Konczal of the Economic Security Project, and Sandeep Vaheesan of Open Markets Institute. This panel was moderated by Ed Luce of the Financial Times.

What is Market Humanism?

Felicia Wong sat down with Nick Hanauer to discuss his new book Markets Built for Humans (co-written with Eric Beinhicker of INET Oxford).

Liberals and the World: How to Answer “America First”?

This panel included Matt Duss, Executive Vice President at the Center for International Policy and former foreign policy adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders; Karen Kornbluh, a fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology and President Obama’s ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; David Rothkopf, founder and CEO of DSR Media and former editor of Foreign Policy;, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, President of New America and a former director of policy planning at the State Department. Barbara Slavin, a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center, moderated their discussion.

What Can We Learn from Bidenomics’ Legacy?

Jason Furman of the Harvard Kennedy School and Gene Sperling, the former director of the National Economic Council, sat down to discuss the economic lessons learned from the Biden Administration and what policymakers could have done differently.

The resulting conversation (and sometimes debate) was a look into the benefit of breaking through barriers of disagreement in order to adapt and foster an open exchange of ideas that work toward more productive economic policies.