Sherle R. Schwenninger is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School University and director of the Global Economic Policy Program at the New America Foundation.
The fate of the US economic recovery rests in part on whether Europe can keep its intertwined banking and debt crises from spiraling into full-fledged financial contagion.
Rather than pointing us in a more constructive direction, much of the Democratic leadership is reinforcing a foreign policy agenda that has divided us from the world.