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Issue #17, Summer 2010
 If it's good enough for microwaves, it's good enough for mortgages. Why we need a Financial Product Safety Commission.
How our misreading of history harms progressivism today.
Our largest threat: Pakistan. Our alliances: reshuffled by demographics. Terrorism: on the wane (maybe). New frontier for conflict: the Arctic circle. Four experts discuss.
To defang Iran, and help Lebanon and Israel, we must demilitarize Hezbollah. Which means we'll have to talk to them.
U.S. couples adopting from abroad often think they're helping vulnerable couples. The reality is more complex--and poorly regulated.
 Is America stable enough to come roaring back--or so in hock to large capital that more failure is preordained?
Some fascinating Iranian intellectuals are laying the groundwork for democracy. What chance of success do they have?
Louis Brandeis--inventor of public-interest law, the right to privacy, and his famous Brief, all before he went to the Supreme Court--is worth a fresh look today.
America may have succumbed to Commentary magazine's neoconservative exhortations, but most Jews never did.
He concedes nothing. He accepts no responsibility. He blames liberals. Why Karl Rove is still an icon for today's Republicans.
 Michael Tomasky introduces Issue #17.
 When will all the benefits of e-commerce come to e-government? A response to the previous issue's symposium on liberalism.
 Letters from our readers.
 The culture wars are over, and we've won. We should learn to celebrate that--and move on to the next battle that demands our attention.
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From Democracy's Pages to Law of the Land News: A letter from Editor Michael Tomasky on the signing of the financial regulatory reform bill -- and the new consumer financial watchdog it establishes that was first written about in Democracy. Experts Respond to "The Baby Business" News: Some of the world's leading adoption organizations and experts have responded to E.J. Graff's piece from our last issue. America 2021: The Military and the World The Defense Roundtable: Our largest threat: Pakistan. Our alliances: reshuffled by demographics. Terrorism: on the wane (maybe). New frontier for conflict: the Arctic cirlce. Four experts discuss Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson: To defang Iran, and help Lebanon and Israel, we must demilitarize Hezbollah. Which means we'll have to talk to them. Thomas B. Edsall: He concedes nothing. He accepts no responsibility. He blames liberals. Why Karl Rove is still an icon for today's Republicans. James P. Pinkerton: When will all the benefits of e-commerce come to e-government? A response to the previous issue's symposium on liberalism. Nader Hashemi: Some fascinating Iranian intellectuals are laying the groundwork for democracy. What chance of success do they have? Ethan Porter: The culture wars are over, and we've won. We should learn to celebrate that--and move on to the next battle that demands our attention. Michael Tomasky: How our misreading of history harms progressivism today. Joe Klein: Good governance--starting with transparency and citizen access--is the predicate for everything else. Katha Pollitt: Instead of moving to the center, liberalism should try embracing people who are actually liberals—starting with women. Michael Sandel: Obama can still redefine liberalism, but he must bring economic power to heel. Elbert Ventura: What the short, rumbustious history of Ramparts magazine means for modern journalism. Trygve Throntveit: The neoconservatives turned Woodrow Wilson into something he was not. In truth, Obama is more like him than Bush ever was. Obama Proposes Consumer Financial Protection Agency News: President Barack Obama has proposed the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, an idea first written about in Democracy. Kevin Carey: Are our colleges teaching students well? No. But here's how to make them. |
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