Detroit is still bitterly polarized over whether state involvement is needed at all.
Russia remains a key geopolitical actor; its constructive involvement is needed from Afghanistan to proliferation and piracy.
Edmund L. Andrews of The Times notes that all the candidates agree that government involvement is needed to correct the country's housing market, it's just their specifics that differ.
But when that process breaks down, more transparency and public involvement are needed to move even the most obstructionist of politicians toward making government work.
"The No. 1 criteria for this job is strength and independence to persuade the administration that more government involvement is needed on the housing crisis and the economy," Mr. Schumer said.
Indeed, the super-donor arms war further relegates political parties to mere bit players while alienating everyday people – and at precisely the time when their voices and their involvement are needed most.
The foundation says that far greater government effort, including federal involvement, is needed to find out the full extent of the contamination, to gauge the threats to wells supplying drinking water and to assess past and present health risks.
But while their philosophies might seem starkly different, in reality both parties have come to the conclusion that major government involvement is needed to rescue the financial and housing markets.
But Secretary Powell's special assistant on the Middle East, William J. Burns, the assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, who just returned from the region, has made the case that the secretary's personal involvement is needed to sustain the cease-fire.
After Mr Cameron flew in to Belfast for the talks yesterday – a rare intervention into Northern Irish politics by the Prime Minister – together with Mr Kenny, a minister said: "Their involvement is needed to keep the show on the road".
The independent commission set up to probe doping in cycling says an amnesty for those who admit to past involvement is needed if the truth is to emerge.
