EDITOR'S NOTE
by Peter Ross Range
THE SON ALSO FALLS
by Al From and Bruce Reed
Bush has given us a bigger deficit, divisive politics, huge job losses, and a squandered international victory. As Bushism collapses, Democrats must offer a positive vision that gives Americans hope.
JOB KILLER
by Robert D. Atkinson
Bush's retrograde economic policies have helped decimate manufacturing jobs. More than 2 million have been lost since 2001. Democrats can offer a brand new vision.
ARNOLD'S THIRD WAY
by Joel Kotkin
MEMBERS ONLY
by Randolph Court
Caucuses like Iowa's shut out independents and give too much power to party activists. They become unrepresentative club meetings, senselessly handicapping Democrats.
THE NATIONAL SECURITY CASE AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH
by Will Marshall
Bush's initial successes are now overshadowed by foreign policy failures -- on Middle East peace, on Iran and North Korea, on international alliances, on managing the occupation of Iraq. Democrats should respond with a strategy of progressive internationalism.
A SQUANDERED OPPORTUNITY
by Martin Indyk
Unengaged in the Middle East peace process, President Bush let the violence spin out of control. Now it's much harder to get the genie back into the bottle.
THE THIRD WAY LIVES
by Robert Philpot and Robert von Rimscha
Little noticed in the United States, two of the world's remaining centrist leaders -- Tony Blair and Gerhard Schroeder -- have achieved new successes in pushing their reform agendas.
HOMELAND FAILURE
by Shane Ham
No matter how you cut it, the Bush administration is shirking on homeland security. It gets a D on its report card.
UNPREPARED AND MAD AS HELL
by Harry Siegel
New York firefighters took a horrible hit on 9/11. They lost 343 lives and more than 4,000 collective years of experience. Yet today they don't feel any more secure or able to take on a terrorist attack.
TAX CUTS AND JOBS
by Jeff Lemieux
Despite a fast-growth quarter, the job market is still fragile.
