For the second time this evening, Bill Richardson talks about the need for Americans to sacrifice by changing the way we organize our communities and get ourselves around. “We need a transportation policy that doesn’t just build more highways,” he said, “The commuter rail, light rail.”

Hear, hear.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.