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January/February 2008 (v19 n1)


Art by John Ritter Download Issue PDF By The American Prospect Staff Cover Story - Features The Democrats' Strategic Challenge Paul Starr If the Democrats win the election, can the next president and Congress make significant progress toward realizing liberal aspirations? Here's how -- a road map for the start of a new America. Features A Conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin Robert Kuttner Great presidents build support for transformative change. What can the next president do to revive a sense of common purpose? Color, Values, America Maria Echaveste Our next president must restore the United States as a nation of laws and of rights, rooted deeply in values. This effort must appeal to all Americans and transcend race -- but cannot ignore race. Financing the Common Good Robert B. Reich After three decades of government starvation of necessary resources, the next president needs to champion progressive taxation with the proceeds invested in social outlays that make for a more productive economy. Good Jobs in a Global Economy Robert Kuttner The next president can change our trade and labor policies to rebuild the American middle class. Healing Our Self-Inflicted Wounds John Shattuck How the next president can restore the rule of law to U.S. foreign policy -- and rebuild American credibility and power. Leaving "No Child Left Behind" Behind Richard Rothstein Our No. 1 education program is incoherent, unworkable, and doomed. But the next president still can have a huge impact on improving American schooling. This Will Mean the World to Us Chris Mooney Despite decades of delay, the next administration could still move us toward a solution before devastating climate change becomes irreversible. What Ever Happened to Moderate Republicans? Thomas F. Schaller With the hard right dominating their party, two groups have formed to recenter the Republicans. But even in their old habitats -- Wall Street and the media -- they're struggling to be noticed. What to Really Do About Immigration Jeff Faux Half a million Mexicans will cross the border annually for the next 15 years. Here's a plan to enable them to stay home. Why 2009 Is the Year for Universal Health Care Ezra Klein It's not 1994 all over again. The next president can get the reforms that Harry Truman and Bill Clinton couldn't.	Columns Cool Warriors Mark Schmitt The strength of postwar liberalism was not its tough stance against Communism but its deep, nuanced vision of American leadership. Thankfully, that vision is also held by today's Democratic leaders. Pronouncing Our Own Doom Thomas Geoghegan It's strange that the incarceration rate is not as big an issue in the U.S. now as it was in Dostoevsky's Russia, not to mention Dickens' England. When will the United States wake up to the problem of our growing prison population? Reparations Anxiety Dana Goldstein Brown University announced that it will give a $10 million endowment to local public schools to atone for its involvement in the slave trade. But reparations alone will not address the ongoing segregation of the American education system. The Long and the Short Harold Meyerson Covering the unfolding presidential race while also looking ahead to the challenges that will face the Democrats if they win the White House. Culture & Books Dying Did Not Become Her Mark Greif David Rieff's memoir of the terminal illness of his mother, Susan Sontag, shows the consolations of philosophy deserting her and the denial of truth sustaining her as death approached. Michael's Poor Almanac Mark Schmitt How Michael Barone made The Almanac of American Politics irrelevant. Departments Correspondence The Editors UpFront The Editors Vegas as the new Athens; Mike Huckabee on bass; Larry Craig in Bali; T.A. Frank on what's out and what's in for 2008; and The Question.

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