New Deal II: This Time It's Global
Departments
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Changing the Waste Makers: Product Bans and the New Politics of Garbage
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Up Front
Many Obama advisers sport facial hair; there's excess inventory at various Bush agencies; some economic sectors will boom in the troubled economy; and T.A. Frank has the parody.
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Noted
Responses to Mark Schmitt's December cover story "The Audacity of Patience," Ben Adler's "Are Cows Worse Than Cars?" and a letter from Executive Editor Mark Schmitt.
Features
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A Global New Deal
The next New Deal won't work if it's only American. Fixing our economy will require fixing international systems.
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Obama's Economic Opportunity
The dismal state of the economy presents Obama with the chance not just to produce a recovery but to restore a more egalitarian society -- and a progressive majority.
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The Number-Cruncher-in-Chief
Meet Obama's budget guru, Peter Orszag.
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Can Partisanship Save Citizenship?
In the 1990s, reformers and academics worried about how to improve civic life. They didn't foresee that technology combined with party politics would renew civic engagement.
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How Bush Broke the Government
To gain a true sense of Bush's legacy, we survey the systematic and politically motivated ways he undermined the federal government.
Columns
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The Competence Dodge
Liberals should not allow themselves to believe that the experience and competence of Obama's economic team are substitutes for true progressivism.
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Our Capitalist Government
Economic crises force government to find entirely new ways to fix problems. These improvisations then live on as tools of policy.
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Getting Ahead of Congress
The president must begin reaching out to Congress to build support on key social issues right away.
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From Consumers to Commons
Consumer spending is unlikely to return to the levels it once reached, and so the economy will not recover until the government finds ways to invest in the common goods we all share.
Culture
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A Really Long Heat Wave
Popular writers and scientists alike are trying to help readers understand climate change, but doing so requires new thinking about the scale of time.
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Behind Fortune's Smile
Malcolm Gladwell's latest mixes some insights from social science with some compelling anecdotes. Unfortunately, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
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No One In Charge
Writing policy is easy. Making it work is hard. And when those who run government have no respect for the institutions, it's even harder.
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Art in the Age of Obama
A new era may be dawning in which artists, strongly supported by the president, will develop new forms of enduring art.
Special Report
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A 21st-Century Agenda for Democratic Renewal
We stand on the threshold of a new age of democratic potential. Here's how to harness it.
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A Broader Definition of Democracy
Small reforms won't bring the system-wide change we need.
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The Case for Keeping Score
A democracy index could push states toward more ambitious electoral reforms.
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More Than the Vote
Being a citizen should involve active participation in the governance process.
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Better Together
The Midwest Democracy Network put comprehensive democracy reform into practice.
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Can Money Be a Force For Good?
Many reformers hailed the 2008 election as a bright spot in the history of American democracy. Why? The revolutionary potential of small-donor democracy.
