Subject: New Issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas Now Available
From: "Michael Tomasky" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:23:53 -0400 (EDT)

Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
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Summer Issue of <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org">Democracy: A Journal of Ideas</a> 
Now Available

Dear Democracy Reader,

We're proud to present the newest issue of Democracy. Our Summer 2015 edition features provocative and penetrating essays on economics, energy, foreign policy, and more:

Nick Hanauer and David Rolf look at how our changing economy has given rise to a nation of freelancers and contractors, and they <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/shared-security-shared-growth.php">call for a new safety net</a>, one where part-time employees receive some benefits, where those benefits are portable from job to job, and more.

In a new installment in the "Our Digital Future" series, White House veteran Ron Klain explains <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/inequality-and-the-internet.php">why the Internet hasn't been the great equalizer</a> so many hoped for, and what might make it so.

Austerity and the failures of the technocratic elite have sparked a populist backlash in Europe. Esteemed scholar and translator Arthur Goldhammer <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/the-old-continent-creaks.php">examines France and finds ominous signs</a>.

Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations tells the story of how environmentalists fell out of love with natural gas, and  <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/fracking-and-the-climate-debate.php">why the energy source can still help us get to a carbon-free future</a>.

Jim Sleeper of Yale <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/our-puritan-heritage.php">makes the case for the Puritans</a>, a group that has had a terrible reputation since Mencken. It's high time we rediscover the good.
  
Geneive Abdo of the Stimson Center on why the Gulf States are unifying &mdash; and <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/washingtons-limits-in-the-gulf.php">why they don't need Washington's help</a>.

And we have our usual selection of sharp reviews:

Health-care expert Adrianna McIntyre on Steven Brill, and why his <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/our-health-care-tug-of-war.php">diagnoses of the ills in our health-care system</a> are more useful than his prescriptions.
  
Kim Ghattas of the BBC on the prospects for <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/lifting-the-veil.php">a women's sexual revolution in the Middle East</a>, and its surprising potential partner: men.
  
David Greenberg of Rutgers on the BDS movement in academia, and how its <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/the-campus-war-over-israel.php">virulence may infect mainstream politics</a>.
  
Amanda Hollis-Brusky, professor at Pomona College, on the Supreme Court and its <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/the-constrained-court.php">overstated role in our politics</a>.
  
Nathan Pippenger at our Arguments blog has been covering everything from  <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/arguments/2015/06/can-the-religious-right-retreat-from-democracy.php">Christian thinkers</a> who want to retreat from democracy to how <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/arguments/2015/05/charles-murray-and-the-dc-ideas-industry.php">Charles Murray</a> is indicative of the problems in Washington's "ideas industry."
   
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As always, thank you for reading!

Michael Tomasky,
Editor

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About Democracy: A Journal of Ideas 

Democracy: A Journal of Ideas is a quarterly journal of progressive thought edited by Michael Tomasky. E.J. Dionne Jr., of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution, serves as Editorial Chair. Founded by Kenneth Baer and Andrei Cherny, Democracy serves as a place where ideas can be developed and important debates can be spurred.

Democracy is the progressive analogue of conservative journals such as Commentary, the Public Interest, and the National Interest, and it showcases breakthrough thinking on the major domestic and foreign policy issues of our time. Democracy is sold in bookstores nationwide, and its readers--in print and at <a href="http://www.democracyjournal.org">www.democracyjournal.org</a>--can be found in 90 countries around the world. It was named Best New Publication by the Utne Independent Press Awards in 2008, and has been described by Politico as "what Obama's reading."

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