Why have American policies failed? What alternative policies can return America to its promise, internally and in the eyes of a global community? This book answers these questions in a preposterous way. It asks citizens and policy makers to actually connect the dots—to move America forward by developing mutually supportive and complementary foreign, national security, Middle East, economic, domestic, inner city, media, campaign finance, and voting reform policies.

Foreword by: Kevin Phillip
Contributions by: Eric Alterman, Phyllis A. Bennis, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Julian Borger, David Corn, Elliott Currie, Eric M. Davis, Jeff Faux, Alton Frye, James K. Galbraith, Amy Goodman, Robert Greenstein, William Greider, Fred R. Harris, Gary Hart, William D. Hartung, Jim Hightower, Laurie E. King-Irani, Richard C. Leone, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Marc Mauer, Robert W. McChesney, Ray McGovern, Ralph Nader, John Nichols, E Roger Owen, Michael Parenti, Eli Pariser, Howard Rheingold, Coleen M. Rowley, Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich, Raymond Shonholtz, Claire Short, Micah L. Sifry, Vivien Stern, Ruy Teixeira, Chris Toensing, William Wallace, Joseph C. Wilson IV