CFED: In our Fall Issue, we feature a symposium supported by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) on “The Forgotten 40 Percent,” the low- and moderate-income families who lost a staggering amount of wealth and assets in the Great Recession. The issue will be distributed at CFED’s biennial Assets Learning Conference in Washington, D.C. from September 19-21.
The Washington Post: In a September 11 piece on The Washington Post’s website, Post opinions editor James Downie wrote about the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the theme of civic obligation, citing Democracy journal’s “Reclaiming Citizenship” symposium from the Spring 2012 issue.
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas:Democracy hosted a foreign policy roundtable discussion at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, D.C. on June 6. The event was sponsored by Democracy board member Robert Abernethy and featured U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D, R.I.) and former Director of Policy Planning at the State Department Anne-Marie Slaughter as special guests.