Cover Story

The Decisive Center
By Mark Penn
Candidates who embrace and promote defining centrist issues can gain a decisive edge.

Essays and Comment

Eliminating Racial Profiling
By John D. Cohen, Janet J. Lennon, and Robert Wasserman
Progressives should press for an end to the practice on the basis of both civic and practical grounds.

The Pop-up Democracy Myth
By Catharin E. Dalpino
Expanding trade with China can only help its social and economic transition.

The Brains Behind Blair
By Robert Philpot
More than ever, intellectuals are charting the British government's course.

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Editorials

• Appealing to the Decisive Center
• Normalizing Trade with China: An Opportunity We Can't Afford to Miss

Books

• Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists

Political Memo By Al From

• Fighting on Our Turf

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