Welcome to the premiere issue of The Democratic Strategist. For this first issue we asked a small group of the most thoughtful individuals in the Democratic community to look beyond 2006 and to think about strategies for the Democratic Party for the next decade. Our contributors include:

Jerome Armstrong	Elaine Kamarck
Kenneth Baer and Andrei Cherny	Will Marshall
Robert L. Borosage	Harold Meyerson
Donna Brazile	John W. Wilhelm

Following their commentaries the three of us offer our own perspectives.

William Galston	Ruy Teixeira
Stan Greenberg

Ten years from now, the Democratic Party will have fully broadened its election strategy beyond the battleground mentality that dominates strategic thinking today.   more >

"Had enough?" Abramoff and DeLay, Katrina and Iraq, Schiavo and Halliburton, Big Pharma and Big Oil.   more >

President George W. Bush's main foreign policy goal is to spread the fire of democracy in every corner of the globe.   more >

In the 1988 presidential election, Michael Dukakis was pilloried - rightly - for running a soulless campaign whose message consisted of the phrase, "It's not about ideology, it's about competence."   more >

After stewing in impotent rage for six long years, Democrats at last see their chance to stage a comeback.   more >

We live in a time when there's no such thing as purely good economic news.   more >

If demography is destiny, then the Democratic Party may be destined to permanent minority status if it is unwilling to squarely appeal to the surging immigrant population, especially Latinos.   more >