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Ideas for a New Century

DLC | Blueprint Magazine | January 4, 2007
The Center Strikes Back

VOLUME 2006, No. 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITOR'S NOTE
by Peter Ross Range

Cover Story

A NEW DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY [if we can keep it]
by Al From and Bruce Reed
Democrats seized the center with good candidates and sound strategy. But to sustain a majority, they must reject polarization and speak directly to the forgotten middle class.

POLARIZE THIS!
by Will Marshall
Voters have had enough of destructive partisanship.

Politics

IDEAS, NOT IDEOLOGY
by Harold Ford Jr.
Voters want a government that works. Democrats must offer ideas for meeting today's challenges -- and shaping the nation's future.

A NEW VISION FOR SECURITY
by Jeremy Rosner
Democrats won a national security election. But to consolidate that victory, they must chart a course that inspires lasting confidence in voters.

THE POLITICS OF GLOBALIZATION
by Mark J. Penn and Thomas Z. Freedman
Voters see globalization as a mixed bag -- low prices, but shaky jobs. Politicians must show they can make it all work. Plus:

RESULTS MATTER
by Rep. Artur Davis
Democrats won in 2006 because voters prefer problem-solvers to ideologues.

Essays and Comment

LIEBERMAN COMES BACK
by Dan Gerstein
A campaign insider tells the real story of how the politics of problem-solving trumped the politics of polarization.

Columns

Political Memo by Al From
Diminished president
The Vital Center by Bruce Reed
Upper-class squeeze
The Politics of Ideas by Will Marshall
Curing globaphobia
Cultural Politics by Peter Ross Range
Loving the 'burbs

Book Excerpts

CLINTON POLITICS vs. BUSH POLITICS
by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris
The difference between the two political strains of presidential politics practiced in the past two decades.

THE CHINA CHALLENGE
by Kurt M. Campbell and Michael E. O'Hanlon
Six recommendations that the United States can use to help prepare for China's emergence as a great world power.