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The New Politics of Evasion
New thinking and favorable demography have largely addressed the Democrats’ old problems. Now it’s the Republicans who can’t face reality.
Winter Has Come
The “reset” with Russia worked, until Putin sabotaged it. Now the relationship is in tatters. Here’s how to save it—if we even want to bother.
The Parenting Gap
The first two years of life are crucial. We need to help lower-income parents do better—and demand that they do.
The Tech Intellectuals
The good, bad, and ugly among our new breed of cyber-critics, and the economic imperatives that drive them.
Unwound
Four years after Obama took office, George Packer sees little hope for the liberal project. Why is he—along with many, many others—so depressed?
Hatreds Ancient and New
There is and will always be anti-Semitism. But has it really remained unchanged from medieval times to fin-de-siècle Europe to today?
Oracle’s Odyssey
Albert O. Hirschman lived a dramatic twentieth-century life and sought to use it to create a more humane social science.
Fiscal Drag
Finally—about 40 years too late—the tide may be turning against austerity.
Pistol-Whipped
The gun industry and lobby have a stranglehold on our politics, but a rhetorical shift by gun-control advocates could help break it.
Editor’s Note
Michael Tomasky introduces Issue #30
Build Bridges, Not Fortresses
Waiting for the workers to rise up isn’t a new idea—it’s the same idea that got labor into its mess in the first place. A response to Rich Yeselson.
Letters to the Editor
Letters from our readers
Life of the Party
Party platforms don’t matter—but they can, and they should. A platform-writing process that included party faithful could energize our politics.
Focusing Police Efforts on “Hot Spots” Reduces Crime — and Can Prevent It, Too
The preventative promise of hot spots policing lies in its ability, very quickly, to make crime a less appealing way for people to “make it” in a given community—thus clearing the way for youth mentoring and counseling, after school and recreational programs, and job training.
How the Decline of Unions Has Increased Racial Inequality
Many people think of a union member as a white, blue collar male—and this image has prompted some to suspect that unions reinforce rather than reduce racial and gender inequalities. But the image is outdated. Since the 1960s the U.S. labor movement has been racially diverse.
Politics, Race, and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement
Once considered a countervailing power to business, the labor movement has been in crisis and decline for decades. The unionized share of the American labor force peaked at one in three workers in the 1950s, but it has since plummeted to less than one in ten.
Events
Event: Examining the Impact of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
As we approach the two-year anniversary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opening its doors, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and CFED invite you to a Capitol Hill Policy Forum on Wednesday, July 17 to discuss the CFPB’s impact in ensuring the market for consumer financial products and services works for all Americans.
News
Obama Pushes “Middle-Out Economics”; Media Cite Democracy Role
In a July 24 speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, President Obama made the case for “middle-out economics” — the very subject of our Summer 2013 symposium, “The Middle-Out Moment.”
Events
Sen. Warren Celebrates CFPB Anniversary with Democracy
Sen. Elizabeth Warren delivered a keynote address at a Democracy and CFED Policy Forum celebrating the two-year anniversary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an idea that she first introduced in the Summer 2007 issue of Democracy.
