In The Nation this week, there’s a pretty good synopsis by John Nichols of Kerry’s “radical” transformation on trade (no link available): “To get a sense of how radical the remake has been, consider the issue of trade. A pre-makeover Kerry appeared this past September before the Detroit Economic Club and declared himself ‘an entrepreneurial Democrat.’ He condemned Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt for advocating a ‘retreat from the global economy’ because they were critical of free-trade agreements. Dean’s pledge to insert environmental and labor standards into trade agreements ‘would mean we couldn’t sell a single car anywhere in the world,’ Kerry griped. Five months later, with Dean and Gephardt out of the race, Kerry was sixty miles south of Detroit in Toledo, where he rallied Ohio primary voters with a pledge to ‘create a fair playing field for our trade relationships in the world’ by launching a 120-day review of all trade agreements as part of a push to assert labor and environmental standards.”