Index

labor unions, 484, 486–89, 501
LaFrance, Adrienne, 107–23
Land, Richard, 257
Lange, Dorothea, 489
La Raja, Raymond J., 194
“Last Day of My Old Life, The” (Flanagan), 465–70
“Last Temptation, The” (Gerson), 255–74
Latinos and Hispanics, 21, 22, 230, 231, 239, 252, 268, 343, 348
Law and Justice, 146, 147, 150–52, 155, 158–60, 166
Lawrence, Jill, 192, 197
leadership, 306–7
- military, 423–34
Lead Industries Association, 77
lead paint, 77–78
Lee, Ivy, 212
Lee, Russell, 489
“Left Behind” (Westover and Goldberg), 37–42
Lenin, Vladimir, 149–50
“Lessons of the Great Depression, The” (Cohen), 481–91
“Letter From a Birmingham Jail” (King), 4–5
Levinson, Riva, 213
Lewandowski, Corey, 358
Lewinsky, Monica, 183
Lewis, David, 231–34, 236–37
Lewis, John, 66, 350
LGBT people, see gay rights and LGBT issues
liberalism, 184, 276–77
- alt-right and, 94–97
Liberty University, 271
Libya, 296
lies, 156–57, 369, 417–19
- Big Lie, 156
- Medium-Size Lie, 156, 157, 162, 164, 167
- see also truth
life expectancy, 69, 72
Lilla, Mark, 347
Limbaugh, Rush, 181
Lincoln, Abraham, 2, 3, 59, 291, 304, 307, 364, 365, 486, 487, 508
Lithwick, Dahlia, 459
Little Rock, Ark., 299
Livingston, Bob, 176
Li Wenliang, 317, 318
lobbying, 209–13, 224
Long, Huey, 485
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 2
long-term and short-term planning, 306, 321
Loofbourow, Lili, 461
Los Angeles riots, 299
Los Angeles Times, 86, 132, 342
Lott, Trent, 198
Loughlin, Lori, 136–37
Lowell, James Russell, 2, 406
Lowrey, Annie, 31, 99–106
loyalty cult, 315, 320–21, 370
Luján, Ben Ray, 363
Lusk, Matthew, 116
Lutsenko, Yuriy, 395, 397
lynching, 61, 234, 341, 349, 350, 366, 459–60, 523

Macbeth (Shakespeare), 529
Macedonia, 166
Macierewicz, Antoni, 159–60
Macy, William H., 141
Madison, James, 56, 374, 510
Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 4
Mahlum, Anne, 442–43
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (Cohen), 481
malaria, 274
Malcolm X, 366–67
Malinowski, Tom, 394, 397–98, 400, 403
Manafort, Andrea, 202–4, 211
Manafort, Jessica, 202–4
Manafort, Paul, 171, 201–24
- Acker and, 208–9
- Al Assir and, 213–14
- Baker and, 208
- Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, 210–14
- Chorne More purchased by, 220
- Davis, Manafort and Freedman, 215–16, 220–21
- Davis Manafort International, 221
- Deripaska and, 203, 215–17, 219–23
- extramarital affair of, 204
- Gates and, 202, 203
- indictment of, 224
- Kelly and, 213
- money laundered by, 221–22, 224
- Pericles firm of, 219–20
- properties purchased by, 214
- Stone and, 207–10
- the Team and, 207, 208
- Trump and, 201, 204–6, 222–24
- Ukraine and, 202, 203, 217–21, 223, 224
- Yanukovych and, 202–3, 217–18, 221, 223
- Young Republicans and, 206–10
Manafort, Paul, Sr., 207
Management Myth, The: Why Experts Keep Getting It Wrong (Stewart), 20
Manheimer, Esther, 46
Mann, Sally, 64
Mann, Thomas, 177
Maples, Marla, 439
Mar-a-Lago, 222, 411
March, Herbert, 488
marriage, 26
- Defense of Marriage Act, 347
- divorce, 26, 31
- same-sex, 267, 274, 356
Marsden, George, 261, 262
Marshall, George, 12
Marxism, 149
Maryland Community Health Initiatives (Penn North), 71, 74, 75
Mason, George, 56
Matrix, The, 93
Mattis, James, 303–9, 423, 426, 432, 471
McBride, Renisha, 474
McCabe, Andrew, 394, 395
McCain, Cindy, 308
McCain, John, 146, 198, 219, 221, 308, 329, 442
McCain-Feingold Act, 190
McConnell, Mitch, 180, 196, 351, 408, 409, 498, 506
McCrory, Pat, 48, 234, 238
McDonnell, Bob, 413, 414
McFaul, Michael, 370, 371, 372
McGahn, Don, 444
McGlashan, Bill, 135
McGurk, Brett, 426
McInnes, Gavin, 94, 96
McKinley, Michael, 400–403
McKinley, William, 532
McMaster, H. R., 432
McMechen, George, 75–76
Meacham, Jon, 192
Mearns, Geoffrey S., 513–14
Media Matters for America, 116
membership in clubs, 496
Mencken, H. L., 263, 270
Meredith, Rudy, 132
meritocracy, 19–20, 24, 26, 27, 33, 151, 167
Merkel, Angela, 164, 319–20
MERS, 17
Meskill, Thomas, 207–8
Metaxas, Eric, 269, 271
#MeToo, 461
Mexico, immigration from, 81–90, 91
- Trump’s wall plan and, 91, 286, 289, 329, 355, 438, 442
Meyers, Seth, 334
Miami Herald, 79, 300
Michel, Bob, 177–78
Middletown sociology studies, 513
military
- as domestic police force, 298
- Trump’s leadership of, 423–34
Milk, Harvey, 254
Millennials, 97, 270, 456, 507
Miller, Stephen, 357
Miller, William, 122, 123
Millerites, 122
Miranda, Lin-Manuel, 525–29
misogyny and sexism, 35, 91, 93, 94
Mitchell, Margaret, 54
Mohammed bin Sultan, Prince, 446
Mondale, Walter, 265
money laundering, 221–22, 224, 322
Monnat, Shannon, 34
monopolies, 484, 505, 533
Monroe, James, 56
Moore, Beth, 274, 451–58
Moore, Keith, 453
Moore, Roy, 257, 268
Moore, Russell, 273, 453
Moral Majority, 264
Moral Mondays, 228, 229
Moral Movement, 229, 231, 238
Moran, Jerry, 193–94
Moretti, Enrico, 30
Morgan, Daniel, 62
Morgan, Edmund, 56
“Most Expensive Weather Year Ever, The” (Lowrey), 99–106
Mother Jones, 336
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Faust), 52
Mounk, Yascha, 507
mouse allergens, 76
MoveOn.org, 329
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 99, 341
Mueller, Robert, 201, 206, 224, 389, 391, 447
Muir, John, 4
Mullen, Mike, 471
Muncie, Ind., 513–15
Murphy, Cullen, 5
Murray, Charles, 335
Museum of African-American History and Culture, 459–60
Muslims, 296–97, 323, 325, 359
- travel ban and, 272, 334, 380–81, 384, 462
Myers, Daisy and Bill, 341
Myers, Joel N., 102

NAACP, 227, 232
Nagle, Angela, 91–97
Naím, Moisés, 166
NASA, 198
National Emergencies Act, 292
national emergency, declaration of, 289–301
National Guard, 293, 299
National Industrial Recovery Act, 484
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 11, 15, 17, 117
National Institutes of Health, 13
nationalism, 362, 523
- see also nativism and xenophobia; white supremacy, white nationalism
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), 484, 487
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, 100
National Security Council, 321
nativism and xenophobia, 40, 91, 94, 148, 156–57, 251, 273, 362, 523, 531
NATO, 144, 160, 218, 423, 427
natural disasters, see hurricanes and other extreme weather
Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic (Stewart), 20
Nauert, Heather, 370, 372
Nazi Germany, 150, 155, 161, 212, 383–84, 394, 526
Nazis, neo-, 51, 91, 92, 95, 273, 526
- Charlottesville rally, 51, 91–92, 95–96, 243, 271, 333, 359, 445–46, 450
- see also white supremacy, white nationalism
Nelson, Steve, 488
Neumann, Ronald, 393, 398
New America, 514
New Deal, 390, 481–91, 534
New Era of Secret Law, The (Goitein), 289
Newkirk, Vann R., II, 225–40
Newland, Erica, 380–85, 396
Newsweek, 211
“Newt Gingrich Says You’re Welcome” (Coppins), 173–85
New Yorker, 258, 335, 347–48, 352
New York Observer, 441
New York Post, 439
New York Review of Books, 419
New York Times, 76, 109, 111, 203, 213, 272, 345, 347, 357, 370, 375, 412, 435, 462
NextGen Climate, 194
Nicaragua, 212, 296
Nichols, Tom, 34
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 264
9/11 attacks, 85, 157, 291, 293, 296, 297, 307, 321, 328, 390, 504
1984 (Orwell), 525, 529
Nineteenth Amendment, 305
Nixon, Richard, 43, 66–67, 79, 184, 207, 209, 265, 341, 418
norms and values, 303–9
North, Oliver, 300
Northan, Ralph, 51
North Carolina, 45–48, 51, 225–40, 241
- voting rights in, 225, 228–40
North Korea, 282, 372, 375, 425, 430, 431
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 364
NYU School of Law, Brennan Center for Justice at, 289, 292

Obama, Barack, 2–3, 23, 34, 86, 118, 163, 183, 229, 230, 234, 240, 245, 257, 333–34, 337, 343, 347, 349, 351–52, 372, 373, 380, 386, 393, 396, 406, 407, 425, 431, 432, 444
- “birther” claims about, 111, 156–57, 159, 272, 332, 352, 440
- crime and, 415–16
- Dreams from My Father, 332
- emergency powers and, 297, 298, 301
- emission targets and, 514–15
- epidemics and, 14, 17, 18
- health care plan of, 9, 42, 184, 196, 347, 351, 375, 504
- phone conspiracy and, 346
- Republican Party and, 351, 352
- Supreme Court nominee of, 193–94, 352
- Trump’s animosity toward, 111, 156–57, 159, 272, 313, 331, 332, 334
- Wright and, 326
Obama, Michelle, 121, 343, 349, 442
Obamacare, 9, 42, 184, 196, 347, 351, 375, 504
Obergefell v. Hodges, 267
Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 361–64
Odoacer, 510
O’Donnell, Christine, 192
Office of Minority Business Enterprises, 79
Oklahoma!, 526
Omar, Ilhan, 361–64
One America News Network, 110, 120
O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 171, 177, 179
one-party state, 149–50, 167
opioid epidemic, 42, 449, 531
optimism, 534–35
Opus Dei, 388–89
Orbán, Viktor, 150, 161, 164
Ornstein, Norm, 176
Orwell, George, 156, 313, 525, 529
Osterholm, Michael, 14
Ottoman Empire, 534
“Our Composite Nationality” (Douglass), 479, 517–24
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (Allen), 493
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Packer), 377
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America (Fallows and Fallows), 509

Packer, George, 347–51
- “How to Destroy a Government,” 377–403
Paine, Thomas, 181
Painter, Nell Irvin, 334
Pale Rider (Spinney), 12
Palestinians, 1, 281–82
Palmer Raids, 251
Panama, 296
Panama Papers, 224
pandemics, 11–18, 316, 320, 321
- coronavirus, see coronavirus pandemic
- 1918 influenza, 12, 13, 17
Paradise Papers, 224
Paris climate accord, 99, 334, 444–45, 514
Parkland school shooting, 461
Parks, Gordon, 489
Parks, Rosa, 66, 307
parochialism, 41
Patriot Act, 296
Patterson, Paige, 456
Pearl Harbor, 307, 313
Pelosi, Nancy, 362, 363, 373
Pendleton Act, 381
Penn North (Maryland Community Health Initiatives), 71, 74, 75
Pericles, 219–20
Perkins, Tony, 257, 271
Perry, Matthew, Japanese expedition of, 316–17, 320, 322
Perry, Rick, 399
Pertschuk, Mark, 44
Pew Research Center, 21, 33, 34, 192, 243, 305, 337, 456, 507
Pielke, Roger, Jr., 101
Piotrowicz, Stanisław, 152
Pizzagate, 108–10, 112, 117, 119, 157
planning, 504–5
- long-term and short-term, 306, 321
Pledge of Allegiance, 507–8
Plessy v. Ferguson, 61
Podesta, John, 109
Poland, 144–46, 149–57, 162, 166
- Gdańsk, 153
- Law and Justice in, 146, 147, 150–52, 155, 158–60, 166
- Polska Grupa Energetyczna in, 151
- Solidarity movement in, 152, 155
- Telewizja Polska in, 146, 147, 155
police, 350
- brutality by, 359, 471, 473
- killings of, 415–16
- military as, 298
polio, 12
political correctness, 94, 345–46
Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy (Rauch), 187–88
Politico, 196, 203, 319
politics, 187–99
- closed-door negotiations in, 191, 196–98
- donations to candidates and parties, 190, 191, 194–95, 198
- gerrymandering and, 171, 193, 225, 230–32, 237, 245, 359, 505
- lobbying and, 209–13, 224
- middlemen in, 189–91, 198–99, 201
- nominating process in, 191–93, 198
- partisanship and polarization in, 35, 145, 156, 165, 184–85, 242–43, 304, 322, 407, 416, 532
- political consulting, 210
- political hygiene, 38
- pork-barrel spending and, 197–98
- private political machines, 194
Politics of Threat, The: How Terrorism News Shapes Foreign Policy Attitudes (Gadarian), 328
Pompeo, Mike, 392–93, 397, 398, 400–403, 430
Pope, Art, 230
populism, 36, 39, 91, 198, 250, 255, 271, 277
pork-barrel spending, 197–98
Posobiec, Jack, 110
Posse Comitatus Act, 298
“Possibility of America, The” (Blight), 517–24
postmillennialism, 260–62
Powell, Colin, 307
Powell, Dina, 438
Preemption Watch, 44
premillennialism, 262, 271
president, 406, 411
- emergency powers of, 289–301
- unitary executive power and, 386, 388, 389, 406
presidential election of 2016, 33–34, 39, 44, 48–49, 245, 252, 286, 395, 399, 409, 418, 500, 535
- Russian interference in, 223, 352, 381, 385, 389–90, 412
- Trump’s victory in, 33–35, 39, 44, 48–49, 92, 139, 242, 244, 256, 331, 335–36, 344, 348, 418
Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs), 300–301
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), 267–68
Pressley, Ayanna, 361–64
Price of Admission, The (Golden), 27
Princeton Christian Fellowship, 258
Prison Fellowship, 258, 265
private schools, 27
progressivism, 190, 191, 246, 251, 390, 483, 484, 498
Prohibition, 251
“Prophecies of Q, The” (LaFrance), 107–23
Protect Democracy, 385
Protestants, 251, 254, 260, 263, 264
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, 159
Proud Boys, 93–94
Pruitt, Scott, 444
Pryor, Samuel F., 192
Przeworski, Adam, 246
Psychology of Conservatism, The (Wilson), 327
Public Enemy, 525, 529
Publicolor, 133
Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), 243, 327
Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria in, 99–101, 104, 358, 461
Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, 227
Pulse Nightclub massacre, 461
Pursuit of the Millennium, The (Cohn), 122–23
Putin, Vladimir, 157, 216, 220, 419
- Trump and, 370–72, 417, 419, 423
Putnam, Robert, 26, 496

race and ethnicity, 9, 21, 27, 51, 239, 244, 488–89
- nonwhites as majority, 241, 244–45
- see also African Americans; immigration, immigrants; Latinos and Hispanics
racism, 35–36, 40, 43, 51, 58, 60–65, 91, 171, 239, 266, 273, 341–42, 348, 362, 523
- evangelicals and, 273
- lynching, 61, 234, 341, 349, 350, 366, 459–60, 523
- Trump and, 331–53, 357, 361–65, 463
- in West Virginia, 349
- see also segregation; white supremacy, white nationalism
Radar, 300
Raff, Jeremy, 81–90
Randolph, Edmund, 52
Rauch, Jonathan, 187–99, 201, 497
Reagan, Ronald, 17, 66–67, 97, 171, 184, 208–9, 212, 213, 256, 265, 296, 387
Reagan Doctrine, 212
real estate, 30–31, 33–34
Recession, Great, 106, 148, 219, 220, 344, 499
Reconstruction, 60–61, 231, 518, 523
- Amendments, 479, 517, 518
Rector, Ricky Ray, 347
Reddit, 93, 107, 110, 112, 116
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (Applebaum), 144
redistricting, 171, 193, 225, 230–32, 237
REDMAP (Redistricting Majority Project), 230–31
red-pilling, 93, 96
“Red State, Blue City” (Graham), 43–49
Reed, Ralph, 271
reform programs, 534
Rent, 527
Republican Party, Republicans, 38, 39, 43–45, 47, 48, 51, 194–96, 198, 205, 242–43, 245, 250, 252–53, 348, 365, 378, 389, 406, 412, 483, 503
- evangelicals and, 255, 264, 265
- Fox News and, 410
- Gingrich and, 174–85, 195
- immigrants and, 355–59
- liberal, 178
- lobbying and, 209
- move from family values to white nationalism in, 355–59
- National Committee of, 252
- National Conventions of, 208, 212, 324, 415
- New Deal and, 485–87
- Obama and, 351, 352
- primaries of, 192
- Progressive, 251
- REDMAP and, 230–31
- Tea Party, 184, 193, 197, 230, 410, 498
- terrorism fears and, 328
- Trump and, 246, 247, 250, 253, 254, 336–37, 389, 407–9
- voting rights and, 225, 226, 229–31, 233, 236–39
- Young Republicans, 206–10
“Republican Party Moves From Family Values to White Nationalism, The” (Wagner), 355–59
resentment, 33–36, 331, 335
Return of Kings, 93
Ridzelski, Jonnianne, 326
Riis, Jacob, 4
“Road From Serfdom, The” (Allen), 493–508
Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek), 501–2
Robbers Cave experiment, 373–74
Roberts, Jason M., 192–93
Roberts, John, 233
Robertson, Pat, 265
Rodgers and Hammerstein, 525–26, 529
Rodriguez, Anita, 84–86, 89
Rodriguez, Daira, 83
Rodriguez, Margarito, 84, 87–88
Rodriguez, Raul, 81–90
Rodriguez, Raul, Jr., 83, 84
Roediger, David R., 338, 342
Roller, Emma, 94
Roman Empire, 509–15
Romanians, 148
Romney, Mitt, 252, 336, 351, 418
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 289, 291, 313, 347, 481–87, 534
Roosevelt, Theodore, 4, 191, 341, 393, 532–33, 535
Rosenstein, Rod, 389
Ross, Deborah, 229
Rothschild, Nathaniel Philip Victor James “Nat,” 215–17
Rothwell, Jonathan, 335
Rove, Karl, 194, 222
Rubio, Marco, 2, 412
Rucho, Bob, 231, 232, 237
rural areas, 39, 42, 43, 44, 47–49
Russia, 149–50, 157, 159, 164, 203, 216, 217, 219, 220, 223, 257, 295, 306, 395, 403, 409, 426, 531, 533
- U.S. presidential election and, 223, 352, 381, 385, 389–90, 412
- see also Putin, Vladimir
Russian Revolution, 277
Ryan, Paul, 407–9

Saddam Hussein, 326, 429–31
Saez, Emmanuel, 20
Samaritan’s Purse, 274
Sanders, Bernie, 343, 345–46
Sanders, Sarah, 369–75, 436
Sandweg, John, 356–57
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harari), 275
SARS, 13, 17, 18
SAT, 130, 141
Saudi Arabia, 213
Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (Cohen), 482
Sayoc, Cesar, 243
Scalise, Steve, 243
Scaramucci, Anthony, 372, 373
Schaffner, Brian, 35
Scheidel, Walter, 510–12
Schetyna, Grzegorz, 155
Schiff, Adam, 121, 402
Schmidt, Mária, 161–65
schools, 265, 308, 320
- prayer in, 265, 267
- segregated, 54–55, 61, 299
science, 316, 322
- evolution, 261–63, 269–70
- see also technology
Scopes “monkey trial,” 263, 270
Scott, Ridley, 119
Sebastian, Mihail, 148
secession, 243, 498
Second Great Awakening, 259
segregation, 32, 61–63, 76–78, 366
- Jim Crow, 61, 62, 65, 226, 228, 234, 236, 239, 307, 366, 523
- in schools, 54–55, 61, 299
Seishisai, Aizawa, 316
Senate Armed Services Committee, 198
September 11 attacks, 85, 157, 291, 293, 296, 297, 307, 321, 328, 390, 504
serfdom, 500–502
Serwer, Adam, 459–63
Sessions, Jeff, 301, 383, 385, 444
Seventeen, 440
Seventh-day Adventists, 122, 123
sexism and misogyny, 35, 91, 93, 94
sexual assault survivors, 460–61
sexuality and Christianity, 267
Shahn, Ben, 489
Shakespeare, William, 529
Shapiro, Walter, 192
Sharry, Frank, 329–30
Shelby County v. Holder, 233, 234, 236
Shenker, Anat, 328–29
Sherif, Muzafer and Carolyn Wood, 374
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 216
Shipp, Thomas, 459–60
Shock, Lorrie, 119–21
short-term and long-term planning, 306, 321
Shultz, George, 306
Silver, Nate, 34
Singapore, 319, 320
Singer, William Rick, 130–32, 133–38, 141
60 Minutes, 408
Slamon, Dennis, 467, 468
Slate, 31, 130, 459, 461
Slaughter, Anne-Marie, 514
slavery, 56–62, 235, 248–50, 260, 273, 304, 305, 337–41, 349, 353, 364–65, 459, 494, 518–20, 524
- abolitionists and, 4, 250, 340
- colonization schemes for free blacks, 364–65
- Fugitive Slave Act and, 249–50
- Underground Railroad and, 259
“slavery,” white, 338–41, 344
Sloane, Devin, 136
smallpox, 12
Smith, Abram, 460
Smith, Al, 251
Smith, Clint, 471–76
Smith, Gerrit, 340
Smith, Neil, 104–5
Smolensk conspiracy theory, 157–60
Snyder, Timothy, 156
social capital, 512
social contract, 143
Social Gospel, 262
Social-Justice Warriors, 95
social media, see internet and social media
Social Security, 483, 484
Solidarity, 152, 155
Solidarność, 153
Solidcore, 442–43
Solomon, John, 395
Somalia, 361, 363
Sondland, Gordon, 396, 399
Soros, George, 121, 157, 162–64, 298, 399
Sound of Music, The, 525–26
South, 54–56, 59–63, 247–50, 519, 523
- African Americans in, 62–64
- Confederacy, 53, 59–60, 62, 339, 519
South Africa, 150, 296, 417
South Korea, 318–20, 425
South Pacific, 526, 529
Soviet Union, 149, 203, 212, 216, 276, 283, 300
Speciale, Michael, 48
Specter, Arlen, 210
Spencer, Richard, 91, 92, 95, 96
Spicer, Sean, 369, 372
Spinney, Laura, 12
Stalin, Joseph, 157
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Kendi), 361
Stanton, Elizabeth, 105–6
Starr, Kenneth, 387
Starr, Kevin, 126
State Department, U.S., 89, 118, 203, 370, 372, 377, 392–403, 431
state legislatures, 43–47
Stephenson, Bonnie, 100–101
Stetzer, Ed, 453
Stewart, Matthew, 19–36
Steyer, Tom, 194
Stockfish 8, 279
Stone, Geoffrey R., 295
Stone, Roger, 207–11, 391, 441
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 260
Stryker, Roy, 489
Summers, Lawrence, 350–51
Supersizing Urban America (Jou), 79
Supreme Court, U.S., 231, 232, 245, 249, 250, 265, 460, 462, 496
- Brown v. Board of Education, 54–55, 65
- emergency powers and, 289–91, 293, 298
- Ex parte Milligan, 299
- First Amendment and, 295
- Korematsu v. United States, 289–90, 293
- McDonnell case and, 413
- Obama’s nominee for, 193–94, 352
- Obergefell v. Hodges, 267
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 61
- Shelby County v. Holder, 233, 234, 236
- Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer, 291, 301
surveillance, 281–82, 416
suspension of habeas corpus, 291, 300
Syria, 164, 423, 426–27, 432
Szelényi, Zsuzsanna, 164

Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education (Allen), 493
Tammany Hall, 190
Tapper, Jake, 408
Tapping Into The Wire (Beilenson and McGuire), 78
Taylor, Breonna, 473
Taylor, Jared, 93
Taylor, William, Jr., 403
Tea Party, 184, 193, 197, 230, 410, 498
technocrats, 503–4, 506
technology, 316
- artificial intelligence, 275–88
- biotechnology, 276, 277
- democracy and, 275–88
- information, 276–77
- and Meiji Restoration in Japan, 322, 534
- self-driving cars, 280, 284
Teixeira, Ruy, 244–45
Terrazas, Aaron, 33
Terror Háza, 161
terrorism, 148, 424, 429
- domestic, 107, 112, 119
- fear of, 323–30, 416
- 9/11 attacks, 85, 157, 291, 293, 296, 297, 307, 321, 328, 390, 504
- suspicion of, 296–97
Texas, Hurricane Harvey in, 100–101, 103, 104, 106
Thatcher, Margaret, 97
“They Had It Coming” (Flanagan), 125–41
Thirteenth Amendment, 305
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Faust), 52
Thomas, Clarence, 384
Thomson, James C., 383
Thoughts on the Colonization of Free Blacks (Finley), 365
Thurmond, Strom, 210
TikTok, 116
Till, Emmett, 350
Tillerson, Rex, 393, 444
Time, 196, 210
Tlaib, Rashida, 361–64
Tobin, Morrie, 132
Toensing, Victoria, 396
To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife (Flanagan), 125
torture, 213, 291, 293
transgender people, 45, 227, 267, 329, 381
Treasury Department, U.S., 297
trees, planting, 514
Treibick, Richard, 132
tribalism, 40
Truman, Harry, 291, 292, 301
Trump, Barron, 436
Trump, Donald, 1–4, 36, 38–40, 118, 140, 141, 151, 164, 174, 187, 192, 195, 239, 243, 252, 277, 313, 377–79, 439, 440, 442, 528, 535
- Access Hollywood comments of, 450, 451, 454
- alt-right and, 92–93
- autocracy and, 405–21
- automobile emission targets and, 514–15
- conspiracy theories and, 109–11, 115–18, 120–22
- coronavirus pandemic and, 4, 11, 17–18, 111, 313, 315, 318–19, 465, 466, 468–70
- cruelty in administration of, 313, 459–63
- election of, 33–35, 39, 44, 48–49, 92, 139, 242, 244, 256, 331, 335–36, 344, 348, 418
- emergency powers and, 289, 297–99, 301
- evangelicals and, 255–59, 268, 271–74, 358, 451–58
- expertise disdained by, 425–28
- fears stoked by, 323–30, 331
- Gingrich and, 174, 184
- immigrants and, 87, 89, 91, 159, 245, 250, 272, 286, 289, 297, 313, 323, 324, 327, 329, 332, 334, 355–59, 372, 459–63, 528
- impeachment of, 388, 391, 394, 395, 397, 399–403
- inauguration of, 369
- instincts of, 428–30
- internet and, 294–95
- Ivanka and, 333, 435–50
- Justice Department under, 377, 380–92
- loyalty cult surrounding, 315, 320–21, 370
- Manafort and, 201, 204–6, 222–24
- Mattis and, 303
- military leadership of, 423–34
- Muslim travel ban of, 272, 334, 380–81, 384, 462
- Obama and, 111, 156–57, 159, 272, 313, 331, 332, 334
- Paris climate accord and, 99, 334, 444–45, 514
- and protests following Floyd’s murder, 471, 532
- Putin and, 370–72, 417, 419, 423
- racism and, 331–53, 357, 361–65, 463
- at reelection kickoff event, 242
- Republican Party and, 246, 247, 250, 253, 254, 336–37, 389, 407–9
- Sanders and, 369–75
- soldiering as viewed by, 432–34
- State Department under, 377, 392–403, 431
- strategies of, 430–32
- tax returns and financial records of, 392, 412–13
- wall plan of, 91, 286, 289, 329, 355, 438, 442
- wealth of, 462–63
Trump, Donald, Jr., 1, 223, 372, 396, 436, 437, 439, 443
Trump, Eric, 436, 439
Trump, Ivana, 372, 439–40, 447–48
Trump, Ivanka, 257, 333, 413–14, 435–50
Trump, Melania, 364, 447–48
Trump, Tiffany, 436
Trump Card, The (Trump), 439
Trump International Hotel, 392, 416
Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy (Frum), 405
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic (Frum), 405
Trump Organization, 413
Trump Tower, 222, 223, 413, 441
trust, 305
truth, 284, 313, 320, 371, 417–19
- truthiness, 369
- see also lies
tuberculosis, 75
Turkey, 419
Turner, Nat, 58
Tusk, Donald, 155, 157
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Harari), 275
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Applebaum), 144
Twitter, 94, 109, 111, 116, 155, 242, 294, 419, 424, 426, 428, 455
Tyler, John, 408

Wagner, Alex, 355–59
Wagner Act, 484, 487
Wajda, Andrzej, 157–58
Wałęsa, Lech, 153, 154
Wall Street Journal, 40, 416, 419
Walmart, 437
Walsh, Lawrence, 387
Walters, John P., 344
“Warning From Europe, A” (Applebaum), 143–67
Warren, Kay, 258
Warren, Rick, 258, 452–53
warrior ethos, 433
Washington, George, 56, 493–95, 497–98, 501, 504, 506
Washington Post, 88, 162, 177, 178, 180, 255, 321, 369
Washington Times, 211
Watergate scandal, 171, 175–76, 184, 191, 196, 209, 265, 387, 497
weather, extreme, see hurricanes and other extreme weather
Wehner, Peter, 274
Weinberger, Caspar, 387
Welch, Edgar Maddison, 108, 109
Wertheimer, Fred, 210, 392
West Nile virus, 17
Westover, Tara 37–42, 43
West Virginia, 348–49
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Coates), 331
“What Art Can Do” (Miranda), 525–29
“What’s Ailing American Politics?” (Rauch), 187–99, 497
Wheaton College, 258, 259
“When the Next Plague Hits” (Yong), 11–18
Whitaker, Matthew, 386
White, George Henry, 226–27
White-Cain, Paula, 257
White Squall, 119–20
white supremacy, white nationalism, 9, 51, 60–61, 91–93, 95, 240, 243, 273, 341–42, 363, 461, 523, 531
- Charlottesville rally, 51, 91–92, 95–96, 243, 271, 333, 359, 445–46, 450
- Ku Klux Klan, 51, 54, 251, 333, 342, 365, 459
- neo-Nazis, 51, 91, 92, 95, 273
- “okay” hand gesture as symbol of, 94
- Republican Party’s move from family values to, 355–59
- Trump and, 331–53, 357, 463
Whitworth, William, 37
“Why Technology Favors Tyranny” (Harari), 275–88
WikiLeaks, 108–9, 118, 216, 419
Wilderness, The: Deep Inside the Republican Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House (Coppins), 173
wildfires, 101, 102
“Will Beth Moore Lose Her Flock?” (Green), 451–58
Wilmington insurrection, 239
Wilson, G. D., 327
Wilson, James Q., 189
Wilson, John B., 136
Wilson, Rick, 326–27
Wilson, Woodrow, 190, 251, 252, 262, 263, 294
Winograd, Morley, 514
Wittes, Benjamin, 385
Wolf, Milton, 193
Women Who Work (Trump), 443–44
Woodhouse, Dallas, 237–38
working class, 331, 334–48, 488–89
World Bank, 435, 437
“World Burns. Sarah Sanders Says This Is Fine.” (Garber), 369–75
World Economic Forum, 219, 500
World Health Organization, 117, 280
World of Late Antiquity, The (Brown), 510
World Vision, 274
World War I, 12–13, 251, 294, 487
World War II, 294, 307, 313, 394, 490, 511
- Japanese Americans and, 289, 291, 293
- Pearl Harbor, 307, 313
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (Foer), 201
WPA, 489
Wrenn, Carter, 239
Wright, Jeremiah, 326
Wright, Jim, 179–80
writ of habeas corpus, 291, 300