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Winning the Voting Wars
The assault on voting may not have succeeded in 2012—but that doesn’t mean that the forces behind voter-suppression efforts are going into hibernation. Far from it. What can we expect from them in 2014 and beyond? And what kind of positive voting-rights agenda can change the terms of the debate?
- Michael Waldman: Playing Offense: An Aggressive Voting Rights Agenda
- Heather K. Gerken: Make It Easy: The Case for Automatic Registration
- Jonathan Soros & Mark Schmitt: The Missing Right: A Constitutional Right to Vote
- Tova Andrea Wang: Expanding Citizenship: Immigrants and the Vote
- Jeff Hauser: A Temporary Victory: Looking Ahead to 2014 and Beyond
Of Freedom and Fairness
The new culture war is about economic issues, and the side that better sells its idea of fairness will have the upper hand.
Smart on Crime
Being tough on criminals hasn’t worked, but neither has being lenient. Here’s how to prevent—and punish—crime the right way.
The Seven Pillars of the Arab Future
The United States cannot make a success of the Arab Spring. Only the region’s nations can. Here are the ways they need to mature.
Dark Matters
America’s terror courts will continue to exist because they spare U.S. officials from public accountability.
Shrugging off Atlas
Exactly how did once-respectable conservative economists get swept up in “moocher class” mania?
Lincoln the Emancipator
One hundred fifty years ago, Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves. Just how he got there might surprise you.
Past Perfect?
How best to respond to a crying child, and other lessons modern societies can learn from traditional ones.
Notown
Good news: A few hipsters are rediscovering Detroit. Bad news: everything else.
Editor’s Note
Michael Tomasky introduces Issue #28
Hate the Game
Yes, we have to reform the rules of campaign finance. But we can’t tie our hands in the meantime. A response to Russ Feingold.
Letters to the Editor
Letters from our readers
The Case for Oldspeak
You may not know what a disposition matrix is, but you wouldn’t want to be on one.
The Strange Math of the Heritage Foundation’s Immigration Report
The report declares that, if immigration reform were to pass with a path to citizenship for the currently undocumented, “over a lifetime, the former unlawful immigrants together would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and services and pay $3.1 trillion in taxes,” sticking taxpayers with $6.3 trillion in supposed new costs. But the true cost is a fraction of what Heritage claims.
A Business Like No Other
Congress should repeal a law and that prevents victims of gun violence from having their day in court. Today, gun companies are free to design and distribute unsafe weapons without concern for their destructive impact and without fear of being held accountable.
City Services Are a Zero-Sum Game
The city of Chicago has no military to cut, no capital gains tax to increase. It’s mostly providing mundane but important government services—public safety, utilities, road maintenance—none of which are larded with fat to trim. That urban governments often have more progressive priorities makes finding targets for spending cuts or taxation much more difficult.
Events
Democracy, Brennan Center Co-Host Money-in-Politics Event
On May 7, the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York City-based public policy institute, hosted a panel discussion co-sponsored by Democracy and Demos on money in politics, the subject of Democracy’s centerpiece symposium in the Winter 2013 issue.
News
Washington Post Interviews Kleiman on Crime Policy
In a March 28 post in The Washington Post’s Wonkblog, Dylan Matthews interviewed UCLA professor Mark Kleiman about his essay, “Smart on Crime,” in the current issue of Democracy.
News
Klein Cites Democracy Essay on Defense Spending
In his Bloomberg View column on February 13, Ezra Klein discussed the politics of military spending and highlighted a number of quotes from former Representative Barney Frank’s feature contribution to Democracy’s Winter 2013 issue.
