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Issue: New Deal II: This Time It's Global
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. Read more
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. Read more
Better Together
The Midwest Democracy Network put comprehensive democracy reform into practice. Read more
More Than the Vote
Being a citizen should involve active participation in the governance process. Read more
The Case for Keeping Score
A democracy index could push states toward more ambitious electoral reforms. Read more
A Broader Definition of Democracy
Small reforms won't bring the system-wide change we need. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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." Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
Getting Ahead of Congress
The president must begin reaching out to Congress to build support on key social issues right away. Read more
Our Capitalist Government
Economic crises force government to find entirely new ways to fix problems. These improvisations then live on as tools of policy. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
A Global New Deal
The next New Deal won't work if it's only American. Fixing our economy will require fixing international systems. Read more
