Citizen politics aims to spur a democratic resurgence at the grassroots. But as other forms of democratic participation decline, can citizen organizing make a difference?
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Posted inLaw and Justice
Constitutional Politics and the Conservative Court
A leading scholar in constitutional law examines the future path of the Supreme Court. The Court’s right turn is nothing to celebrate, but liberals should welcome the return of issues to the political arena.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Liberal Opportunity
The startling collapse of communism, not with a bang (except in Romania) but a whimper, presents the democratic world with a new array of challenges. For the United States, an age of military competition with the Soviet Union is coming to an end. In its place looms a new age of economic competition. The chief […]
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Environmental Risk and the World Economy
When countries trade goods, they also trade environmental and health risks. Why we need a new international framework to preserve both the public’s health and the world’s commerce.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Atlas Unburdened: America’s Economic Interests in a New World Era
In 1944 Western statesmen redesigned the global economic order. The end of the Cold War and the new economic realities of the 1990s call for an equally far-sighted reconstruction and clear grasp of America’s interests.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Escaping the Fiscal Trap
As the 1990s begin, peace and prosperity are in abundance but so are poverty, drugs, poor schools, contaminated air and water, deteriorating roads, and a host of other problems. Although few believe that such problems can be solved with money alone, money is surely needed. Its lack has become an excuse for doing nothing or […]
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Feminism and Democracy
Models drawn from women’s experience and feminist thought now put one of the most enduring themes of democratic theory—and hottest topics of current controversy—into a different light (and a different voice).
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Reconstructing a Democratic Vision
A political pollster and strategist suggests how the Democrats can reclaim the middle class without moving right.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
AIDS and the Moral Economy of Insurance
AIDS is only one of many conditions that new diagnostics tests predict. But what is the purpose of insurance if people who might get sick are judged unacceptable risks?
Posted inEconomic Policy
An Outward-Looking Economic Nationalism
Yes to open trade; no to laissez-faire domestic policies.
