Issue #31, Winter 2014

Is the Party Over?

The Tea Party came out of the October fiscal fiasco looking pretty awful—to everyone, that is, except Tea Partiers. With establishment conservatives now starting to push back, what comes next? Our experts examine the movement's staying power, its historical antecedents, its foreign-policy impacts, and its chances of nominating the GOP candidate in 2016.

Capitalism Redefined

Nick Hanauer & Eric Beinhocker: What prosperity is, where growth comes from, why markets work—and how we resolve the tension between a prosperous world and a moral one.

Electronic Ghosts

Jonathan Lusthaus: A technological approach to cybercrime will only lead to a tech arms race. We need a new plan that starts with figuring out who cybercriminals are.

Battlefield Earth

Heather Hurlburt: This year, Congress will reconsider our expansive, post-9/11 definition of war. It must start with a realistic assessment of the existing threats.

 

Ignorance, Meet Self-Pity

Jeffrey Goldberg: It doesn’t matter the administration—Americans know almost nothing about Pakistan. And Pakistan’s neuroses only make things worse.

Paine and Burke Now

Sheri Berman: Our very categories of “left” and “right” basically originated around these two towering men. But are they still relevant today?

Lonely Prophet

Mike Abramowitz: Raphael Lemkin spent his life trying to get the world to pay attention to genocide. He died with hardly anyone knowing how much we owed him.

News Corpse

Emily Bell: After decades of dominance, the Rupert Murdoch empire, especially its British side, is showing signs of decay. Will the rot make it over here?

 

Editor’s Note

Michael Tomasky: Michael Tomasky introduces Issue #31

Evasive Maneuvers

Ramesh Ponnuru: Today’s GOP hasn’t bottomed out, but it still needs to be more open to change than it is. A response to William A. Galston and Elaine C. Kamarck from the right.

Demography Is Not Destiny

Jamelle Bouie: It might be true that the GOP’s appeal will remain limited to whites. But it might also be true that the definition of “white” will change. A response to William A. Galston and Elaine C. Kamarck from the left.

Closed Network

Jillian C. York: Technology may be redefining our intellectual life, but some things never change—especially for women. A response to Henry Farrell.

Letters to the Editor

Democracy Readers: Letters from our readers

Follow the Leader

Michael Tomasky: Why haven’t today’s right-wingers crossed Ronald Reagan off their list of idols? And could our side learn something from them?

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