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New Issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas

The Winter issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas has arrived - available at the website, www.democracyjournal.org ; via print subscription by clicking here; or at your local bookstore or newsstand.

The Winter 2008 issue of Democracy contains my article, "Wiki Government," which discusses the opportunity presented by new technology to create institutions that are both more expert and more democratic.  Download democracy_journal.pdf

In addition:

• Historian Matthew Dallek looks back at World War II-era Civil Defense as an inspiration for a progressive response to homeland security that is bottom-up, not bureaucracy-based.
• The Council on Foreign Relations' Steven Simon and the Naval War College's Jonathan Stevenson argue that the real lesson from Vietnam is that we need to withdraw from Iraq now to preserve American prestige and power.
• Anne-Marie Slaughter takes apart Norman Podhoretz and neoconservative foreign policy and offers a liberal internationalist alternative.
• Aziz Huq from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU traces the imperial presidency of George W. Bush and how we must recalibrate the balance of power between Congress and the president.
• And political scientist Thomas Schaller explores the new world of regulating "public bads" - from carbon emissions to cigarette smoke.

This issue also features Jim Sleeper's assessment of labor leader Al Shanker's "tough liberalism"; Peniel Joseph's exploration of how the civil rights movement weaves into the fabric of American democracy; Mary Jo Bane's look at the Bush Administration's faith-based initiative; Rick Perlstein's revisiting of the 1972 McGovern campaign; and Sierra Club president Carl Pope's response to Gregg Easterbrook on the future of the environmental movement. Finally, in our "Recounting" essay, Andrei Cherny looks at the battle over the phrase "War on Terror."

About Democracy: A Journal of Ideas

Democracy: A Journal of Ideas is a quarterly journal of progressive thought founded by Kenneth Baer and Andrei Cherny that serves as a place where ideas can be developed and important debates can be spurred. Democracy is the progressive analogue of conservative journals such as Commentary, the Public Interest, and the National Interest, and it showcases breakthrough thinking on the major domestic and foreign policy issues of our time. Democracy is sold in bookstores in 49 states, and its readers - in print and at www.democracyjournal.org - can be found in 90 countries around the world.