price discrimination
Princeton University
privacy
procreation
productivity, earnings vs.
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings
Progressive Era, history of
progressive taxation
Prohibition
Proposition 187
Protestants
Democratic ascendancy and
gay marriage and
immigration and
religious pluralism and
Republican party and
Public Service Commission
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Putin, Vladimir
Putnam, Robert
Putting People First
Rabinowitz, Dorothy
race. See also multiculturalism; specific races
marriage and
new heartland and
Republican Party, Obama and
values, battle over, and
Racial Justice Act
radicalism, Republican
railroads
Rauch, Jonathan
Ready Nation
Reagan, Ronald
Civil Rights Act and
economic failures of
faith, partisanship and
immigration and
inequality and
taxes and
unions and
Reagan Democrats
recession
Reed, Ralph
Reeves, Richard
reform
affordable college education and
agenda for working women and men
businesses and
churches and
democracy in twenty-first century and
equal pay/rights for women and
infrastructure investment and
Medicare, Social Security and
metropolitan areas and
momentum for
of money and politics
narrative for
presidential agenda for
progressive era of
taxes and
working families, working mothers and
Reformicons
regulations. See also specific regulations
big government and
energy revolution and
reform agenda and
religion. See also secularization; specific religions
immigrants and
lack of
multiculturalism and
new heartland and
pluralism of
reform and
social transformation and
values, battle over, and
Rendell, Ed
renewable electricity standards (RES)
renewable energy
renewable portfolio standards (RPS)
Rentfrow, Peter
Report Card for America’s Infrastructure (ASCE)
Republican Governors Association
Republican Party
Affordable Care Act and
Barack Obama and
climate change and
as damaged brand
as deeply divided
electoral college and
Evangelicals and
focus groups and
governing models, red vs. blue ideology
governing models, state
immigration positions by
Industrial Revolution and
momentum shift and
multiculturalism and
new heartland and
Obamacare and
off-year elections and
overrepresentation of
overview of current
polarization and
radicalism within
Tea Party and
tipping point and
unemployment benefits and
RES. See renewable electricity standards
research and development
innovation revolution and
investment in
metropolitan areas and
revolution(s). See also Industrial Revolution
counterrevolution and
economy and
energy
immigration
innovation
metropolitan areas and
overview of current
sexual
Velvet
Rice, Tamir
Right to Rise
Riis, Jacob A.
RINOs
robber barons
Robertson, Pat
Robertson, Phil. See also Duck Dynasty
robotics
Rockefeller, John D.
Rodden, Jonathan
Roe v. Wade
Rohatyn, Felix
Romney, Mitt
corporations and
2012 elections and
Hillary Clinton vs.
immigration and
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin
New Deal and
progressive taxation and
radical reforms and
Roosevelt, Theodore
immigration and
Industrial Revolution and
learning from
New Nationalism and
progressive era reforms and
special interests and
Roosevelt Institute
rope trust
Rosin, Hanna
Rove, Karl
RPS. See renewable portfolio standards
Rubio, Marco
climate change and
deficit and
Hillary Clinton vs.
Super PACs and
taxes and
running to the center
Russian Federation
Ryan, Paul
Affordable Care Act and
2015 budget of
climate change and
deficit and
poverty and
Saez, Emmanuel
salaries. See income
same-sex marriage
bans by states on
Evangelicals and
Karl Rove and
Massachusetts Supreme Court and
moderate Republicans and
overturn of states’ bans on
pluralism of marriage types and
pluralism, religious, and
Republican opposition to
support for
Supreme Court ruling
Tea Party and
Samuelson, Robert
Santorum, Rick
Scarborough, Joe
Schiavo, Terry
Schulz, Nick
Schwartz, Anna
Schwartz, Nelson
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Scott, Rick
Scott, Walter
Scottish National Party (SNP)
Second Amendment
“A ‘Second Opinion’ on the Economic Health of the Middle Class” (Burkhauser/Larrimore/Simon)
secularization
Democratic ascendancy and
values, battle over, and
secular stagnation
self-discipline
sentencing reform
service sector
Seventeenth Amendment
sexual revolution. See also gender roles
shale oil and gas
sharing economy
shareholder revolution
Shelby, Richard
sick leave
Silicon Valley
Simon, Kosali I.
Simpson, Alan
Sinclair, Upton
Singer, Natasha
Sixteenth Amendment
small businesses
SNAP. See Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
SNP. See Scottish National Party
Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification (Jost/Kay/Thorisdottir)
Social Security
Barack Obama and
future of
payroll tax cap for
reform agenda and
/> social transformations
marriage and
overview of
polarization and
soft money
soft power
Solyndra
Soros, George
special-interest groups. See Super PACs
spying
“stagflation”
Standard Oil Company
Stanford University
Statue of Liberty
steam engines
steel
Steffens, Lincoln
stem cell research
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
education and
immigration and
metropolitan areas and
Next Generation Science Standards and
Steyer, Tom
Stiglitz, Joseph
stock market
student debt
education crisis and
growth of
tuition and
suburbs
Summers, Lawrence
Super PACs
contribution limits and
democracy in the twenty-first century and
2012 elections and
2014 elections and
2016 elections and
influence of
public opposition to and
spending freedom and
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Taft, William Howard
Tanenhaus, Sam
Tarbell, Ida
Tariffs
TaskRabbit Economy
tax(es). See also tariffs
capital gains
carbon
education and
EITC and
2010 elections and
2016 elections and
on financial transactions
flat
health care revolution, deficit and
income gap and
Industrial Revolution and
inheritance
in Kansas
in Louisiana
middle class and
in North Carolina
in Pennsylvania
progressive
reform agenda and
Republican governing models and
top rate of
trusts and
Tea Party
Barack Obama and
climate change and
Evangelicals and
gay marriage and
Republican Party and
technology
American economy and
economy and
employment diversity in
metropolitan areas and
small businesses, independent contractors, freelancers and
Teixeira, Ruy
telegraphs
telephones
temperance
Texas. See also Perry, Rick
budget cuts in
businesses and
education and
immigration and
off-year elections and
red vs. blue states and
research and development in
same-sex marriage and
shale oil, gas and
Thorisdottir, Hulda
Tillis, Thom
tolerance
Tomasky, Michael
transfer defense
transportation. See also infrastructure investment
Truman, Harry
trusts
Tucker, Marc S.
tuition. See also education
waived
Turner, Frederick Jackson
two-income households
U.K. Independence Party (UKIP)
Ukraine
U.N. Green Climate Fund
undocumented immigrants. See also DREAMers
amnesty for
Barack Obama and
Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act and
border security and
Canada and
comprehensive immigration reform bill and
Democratic ascendancy and
Evangelicals, Tea Party and
Hispanic support for
Immigration Reform and Control Act and
Lyndon Johnson and
Mitt Romney and
Republican Party and
unemployment benefits
abuse of
extension of
North Carolina and
Republican positions on
The Unfinished Revolution (Gerson)
Unintimidated PAC
unions
Industrial Revolution and
minimum wage and
reform agenda and
Republican governing model and
Ronald Reagan and
universities. See also education
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Steel
values, battle over
Duck Dynasty and
immigration and
metropolitan revolution and
overview of
political polarization and
race, counterrevolution and
sexual revolution, secularization of America and
Van Hollen, Chris
Velvet Revolution
Virginia, Loving v.
Volcker, Paul
Volkswagen
voter ID laws
voting rights
Industrial Revolution and
limitation of
race and
Voting Rights Act
wage gains. See income
Walker, Scott
anger and
climate change and
Hillary Clinton vs.
off-term elections and
Super PACs and
Wal-Mart
Warren, Elizabeth
Warren, Rick
Washington, D.C.
Barack Obama and
education and
immigration and
income gap and
metropolitan revolution, economy and
minimum wage and
sick leave and
Teddy Roosevelt and
Washington Post
Washington state
climate change and
income gap and
metropolitan revolution, economy and
research and development and
sick leave and
West, Darrell
West, Martin
White, William Allen
Whyte, William H.
WIC program. See women, infants, and children program
Wilson, James Q.
Wilson, Pete
Wilson, Woodrow
Industrial Revolution and
learning from
Windfall Profits Tax Act
Winship, Scott
Wisconsin. See also Walker, Scott
Wisconsin idea
Wolraich, Michael
women, infants, and children program (WIC)
Women’s Right to Know Act
Women’s Voices Women’s Vote
Woodson, Bob
working class
decline of marriage and
Democratic ascendancy and
Democratic economic agenda
diversity
elections and
importance of education
lack of support for women in the
marginalization of men in the
reform agenda and
Working Family Fund
World Cup of 2014
World Fairs of 1893 and 1904
World War II
Wurzelbacher, Joe
Yugoslavia
Zakaria, Fareed
Zuckerburg, Mark
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
1. America at a Tipping Point
PART I: America: The Exceptional Nation
2. America’s Economic Ascendancy
3. America’s Cultural Exceptionalism
PART II: America’s Deepest Problems
4. Contradictions of the New Economy
5. Contradictions of the New Society
PART III: Political Disruption
6. Revolutions and Counterrevolution: The Battle for American Values
7. The Democratic Ascendancy
8. The End of the Republican Party as We Know It
PART IV: Addressing America’s Contradictions
9. The Conservative Interregnum
10. From Reagan Democrats to the New America
PART V: New Progressive Era
11. The Progressive Era: “To Cleanse, to Reconsider, to Restore, to Correct the Evil”
12. Momentum for Reform
13. The State of the Union
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author
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