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Edited by Mark Green, this volume gathers together many of America's best scholars, advocates, experts and thinkers to lay out a practical progressive program that candidates can run on and govern by – and that voters can gauge candidates by. The volume contributes to the quadrennial American conversation not only about who will govern but how. What ideas can the President, Congress and state capitals rally behind to fulfil the promise of America?
For each issue, the chosen author provides a) the current state of play and problems, b) a better approach to advance American values and c) a brief summary of the best ideas.
Labor laws, civil rights laws, Medicare and Medicaid, the G.I. bill, the Freedom of Information Act, environmental and consumer regulation, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Earned Income Tax Credit and Family and Medical Leave proved to be breakthroughs that made America more just and prosperous. What equivalent reforms are needed in the short term by 2005 – or in the longer term by 2010?
INTRODUCTION: “ON PROGRESSIVE PATRIOTISM”
I. FOREIGN AFFAIRS: TOWARD A SAFER AMERICA
• Foreign Policy: Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor to President Clinton
• Proliferation: Jonathan Schell, author, The Unconquerable World
• International Law: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Terrorism at Home and Abroad: Gary Hart, former U.S. Senator from Colorado
II. ECONOMY: TOWARD A MORE PROSPEROUS AMERICA
• Economic Growth: James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
• Federal Fiscal Policy: Bob Greenstein, founder and Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Peter Orszag, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
• Corporate Governance: Joel Seligman, Dean, Washington University School of Law and author of a five-volume series on the SEC
III. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: TOWARD A FAIRER AMERICA
•Education – Richard Elmore, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
•Health Care – Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA
•Environment – Carl Pope, Executive Director of Sierra Club
•Terrorism and Civil Liberties – David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
•New Cities – Bruce Katz, Founding Director, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution
IV. JUSTICE: TOWARD A MORE JUST AMERICA
• Civil Rights: Christopher Edley, Professor, Harvard University Law School and co-director, The Civil Rights Project at Harvard Law School
• Women’s Rights: Ellen Chesler, Director of Program on Reproductive Rights, Open Society Institute
• Crime: Christopher Stone, Director, Vera Institute of Justice
• Political Reform: Mark Schmitt, Director of Policy and Research, Open Society Institute
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