23 Jun 2006 - 23 Mar 2022
Government, its scope and role, was at the center of the recent election campaign, and voters unequivocally said “enough.” But progressives aren’t going to give up on government because of one election. A strong role for the federal government as incubator, nurturer, and watchdog is central to the progressive vision of society.
Rick Perlstein: Enemies of State
Alan Wolfe: Why Conservatives Won’t Govern
Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer: The “More What, Less How” Government
The Jobs & Economy Roundtable: In 2021, we will still bear scars from the Great Recession. But will America be a mighty economy again? What key investments are needed to ensure our growth and prosperity? Five experts take the long view.
Andrea Louise Campbell: How progressives can stop worrying and love a value-added tax.
Michael Bérubé: Fifteen years after the Sokal Hoax, attacks on “objective knowledge” that were once the province of the left have been taken up by the right.
Yehudah Mirsky: Human rights as utopian politics may have failed us, but human rights as catastrophe prevention is the least we must insist on.
Nina Hachigian: America is no longer the world’s only pivotal power. Americans are adjusting—but can their leaders?
Alan Brinkley: Two years into Barack Obama’s presidency, we can’t doubt his intelligence, but we can wonder whether there are more important qualities.
Jennifer Klein: Two historians trace our economic mess and growing inequality to that dismal decade—the 1970s
Mary Jo Bane: Despite increasing religious polarization, there is surprisingly little religious hostility in America. So why doesn’t it feel that way?
Michael Tomasky: Michael Tomasky introduces Issue #19.
David Kendall: The key to improving health-care reform lies outside Washington. A response to Jacob S. Hacker.
Democracy Readers: Letters from our readers
Michael Tomasky: Imagining the hastening of the day when Arab Americans are just another unsuspected and unsurprising part of American culture.
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas: Join us for a discussion of Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer’s
“The ‘More What, Less How’ Government” on March 9 at NDN. Liu and Hanauer will be joined by Michael Lind of the New America Foundation, Megan McArdle of The Atlantic, and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post. Click here to
RSVP.
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas: In our Winter 2010 issue, Shadi Hamid
wrote of the dilemma confronting the U.S. in Egypt. His closing lines: “Egyptians, along with Arabs and Muslims throughout the region, have demonstrated their desire for substantive political change. It is time we did the same.”
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas: President Obama today announced the appointment of Gene Sperling as the new director of the National Economic Council. Readers who are wondering what to expect from Sperling can find their answer in the pages of this
journal.
Michael Tomasky: Progressives aren’t going to give up on government because of one election. A strong role for the federal government as incubator, nurturer, and watchdog is central to the progressive vision of society.
Rick Perlstein: Historically, nothing has terrified conservatives so much as efficient, effective, activist government.
Alan Wolfe: Rather than using government badly out of a conviction that it always fails, they now refuse to allow government to do its work at all.
Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer: What is government for? Over the last two years, this has been the dominant question of American politics. Yet so few leaders have offered coherent answers.