After the contentious Iran and Social Security debates, the retreat to wonkitude must come as a relief. Clinton supports “a crash program on weatherization.” Bill Richardson name-checks the Apollo program. Chris Dodd thinks “the corporate carbon tax” is critical, despite the hardships it may cause.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.