Hope Is a Tattered Flag: Voices of Reason and Change for the Post-Bush Era Book

Foreword: Will Durst     xiii
Introduction     xv
Changes
Taking Conservatives to Task for Their Inability to Govern   Alan Wolfe     3
Working for Change from within the Establishment   Charles Rangel     12
Engaging Potential Adversaries   Bill Richardson     17
Keeping Faith with American Values   Anne-Marie Slaughter     22
The Importance of Well-Crafted Words   Paul Glastris     27
Americans' Failure to Make Political Choices Based on Issues   Drew Westen     30
A Speech for a Candidate Accepting the Presidential Nomination   Theodore Sorensen     35
Trivializing American Democracy   Joe Klein     40
War and the military
Giving America Back to "We the People"   Mike Gravel     51
How Democratic Contenders Can Get Support from the Military   Andrew Exum     58
My Trip to Al-Qaeda: The Stage Show   Lawrence Wright     62
The Cathartic Value of Writing Literary Works   Marcus Eriksen     67
Why Political Leaders Choose War, and the Psychology of War Prevention   Jonathan Renshon     72
Contemplating the Next U.S.-Initiated War   Daniel Ellsberg     76
Oil
The Role of Theater in Social Change   Dan Hoyle     83
A Backward Travelogue: Oil from Gas Tank to Source   Lisa Margonelli     90
Business, Economics, and the Environment
My "Long Tail" Economic Theory and Punk Rock Career   Chris Anderson     97
American Business Seeks the Regulation George Bush Dismantled   Christopher Hayes     108
The American Trend toward Layoffs: Strategies for Reversal   Louis Uchitelle     112
The Emerging Environmental Majority   Carl Pope     119
The Grassroots Change in the Business of America   Bill McKibben     126
What Would a Consumer-Driven Economy in America Look Like?   Don Tapscott     133
Immigration
Undocumented Workers Build the Border Fence?   Jason Booth     141
Influences of Spanglish on U.S. Culture and Society   Ilan Stavans     144
Securing Our Southern Border   Tom Tancredo     148
How to Wave Old Glory   Ronald Johnson     156
Who Needs a Closed Border with Mexico?   Patrick J. Buchanan     160
Immigration Raids: The Horror of U.S. Immigration Policy   Christine Heagan     164
Ethics
Body Language Reveals True Emotions    Paul Ekman     171
Secrets, Truth, Lies   John Sullivan     176
On American Ethics   Jayson Blair     181
News Media
The Media: Tool of Reactionary and Progressive Politics   Marc Fisher     189
Politics as Art   Igor Keller     197
A Journalist's Rights   Josh Wolf     201
Protecting Sources   Sarah Olson     206
Ink on Paper   Mario Garcia     209
Wealthy Journalists Hobnob with Their Sources   Charles Peters     214
Church, State, and Culture
The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom   Barry W. Lynn     219
The Christian Right: Dangers and Remedies to Their Threat   Monique El-Faizy     225
Politics Can Save a Culture from Itself   Lawrence Harrison     229
Men and Women
Get American Men Back to Church   David Murrow     239
Fearless in Love, Work, and Life: Tools for Women   Arianna Huffington     244
Watching Women Rise to New Heights in Politics   Clara Bingham     248
Onward
A Campaign to Legalize Ferrets as Pets in California   Pat Wright     257
Coming to a Town Near You: The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour   Ahmed Ahmed     261
Totally True! Unique Regional Culture in America   Jim Bradshaw     266
East Wheeling Black Elks Lodge IBPOEW 74 Celebrates Hundredth Anniversary   Donnie Walters     274
Singing the Praises of the Garden State   John Pizzarelli     278
Epilogue: Elizabeth Austin     283
Index     289
About the Authors     299