CHAPTER 1: WE SHOULD TALK POLITICS
1. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1963; New York: Penguin Books, 1990), 119. Emphasis added.
2. “Abigail Adams to John Adams, 14 August 1776,” Adams Papers, National Archives, accessed June 18, 2018, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-02-02-0058.
3. “A League of Their Own Quotes,” IMDb, accessed June 18, 2018, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104694/quotes.
4. “#Nuance,” August 7, 2015, http://sarahstewartholland.com/blog/nuance.
5. “Dear Mattie Show 85: Sarah & Beth from Pantsuit Politics and How to Keep Calm in Political Engaging,” The Dear Mattie Show, February 1, 2017, http://www.dearmattieshow.com/podcasts/dear-mattie-show-85-sarah-beth-pantsuit-politics-and-how-keep-calm-political-engaging/.
6. “Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780,” Adams Papers, National Archives, accessed June 19, 2018, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04–03–02–0207.
CHAPTER 2: TAKE OFF YOUR JERSEY
1. Bob Bryan and Joe Perticone, “A Top Senate Republican Just Threw Cold Water on the Hail Mary Plan to Avoid a Shutdown,” Business Insider Singapore, January 19, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.sg/government-shutdown-2018-cornyn-says-no-to-back-up-plan-short-term-bill-2018-1/.
2. Mark Landler and Rick Gladstone, “Chemicals Would Be ‘Game Changer’ in Syria, Obama Says,” New York Times, March 20, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/world/middleeast/syria-developments.html.
3. Paul McLeary, “The Slam Dunk Contest,” Guardian, April 27, 2007, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/apr/27/theslamdunkcontest1.
4. Steven Rogers, “National Forces in State Legislative Elections,” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 667, no. 1 (August 2016): 207–25, https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716216662454.
5. “The Partisan Divide on Political Values Grows Even Wider,” Pew Research Center, October 5, 2017, http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/the-partisan-divide-on-political-values-grows-even-wider.
6. Stephen G. Bloom, “Lesson of a Lifetime,” Smithsonian, September 2005, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lesson-of-a-lifetime-72754306/.
7. Quoted in Charles M. Blow, “‘Politics Is a Team Sport,’” Campaign Stops (blog), New York Times, February 23, 2012, https://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/politics-is-a-team-sport/.
8. Clio Andris et al., “The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives,” PLoS ONE 10, no. 4 (April 2015): 5, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123507.
9. Tim Alberta, “John Boehner Unchained,” Politico Magazine, November/December 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/29/john-boehner-trump-house-republican-party-retirement-profile-feature-215741.
10. Charles Franklin Benvegar, in Vincent Godfrey Burns, comp., The Songs of the Free State Bards (Washington: New World Books, 1967).
11. Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Annual Message to Congress,” January 4, 1935, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=14890.
12. Dylan Matthews, “‘If the Goal Was to Get Rid of Poverty, We Failed’: The Legacy of the 1996 Welfare Reform,” Vox, June 20, 2016, https://www.vox.com/2016/6/20/11789988/clintons-welfare-reform.
13. Arthur C. Brooks, “The Dignity Deficit: Reclaiming Americans’ Sense of Purpose,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2017, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017–02–13/dignity-deficit.
14. Barb Darrow, “The Bright Side of Job-Killing Automation,” Fortune, April 5, 2017, http://fortune.com/2017/04/05/jobs-automation-artificial-intelligence-robotics/.
15. National Federation of Independent Business, cited in Rob Kaplan, “America Has to Close the Workforce Skills Gap,” Bloomberg, April 12, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-12/america-has-to-close-the-workforce-skills-gap.
16. Audrey Watters, “The Invented History of ‘The Factory Model of Education,’” Hack Education, April 25, 2015, http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model.
17. Drive to 55 Alliance, accessed May 17, 2018, http://driveto55.org/.
18. We recommend listening to “The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat from Marriage” on Freakonomics Radio with Melissa Kearney, professor of economics at the University of Maryland, for a modern and important take on this topic, http://www.freakonomics.com/podcast/fracking-baby-boom-retreat-marriage/.
19. “Prioritizing Grace,” Pantsuit Politics, August 25, 2016, http://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/new-blog/2016/8/25/prioritizing-grace.
20. Michelle Chen, “Could a Universal Basic Income Work in the US?,” Nation, August 15, 2017, https://www.thenation.com/article/could-a-universal-basic-income-work-in-the-us/.
21. Richard Rohr, “From Disconnection to Connection,” September 15, 2016, Center for Action and Contemplation, https://cac.org/from-disconnection-to-connection-2016-09-15/.
22. “Fire and Fury, Oprah for President, and Faith and Politics with Michael Wear,” Pantsuit Politics, January 9, 2018, http://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/show-archives/2018/1/9/fire-and-fury-oprah-for-president-and-faith-and-politics-with-michael-wear.
23. Mark 14:8 amp.
CHAPTER 3: FIND YOUR WHY
1. Paul E. Peterson et al., “Ten-Year Trends in Public Opinion from the EdNext Poll,” Education Next 17, no. 1 (Winter 2017), http://educationnext.org/ten-year-trends-in-public-opinion-from-ednext-poll-2016-survey/.
2. Peterson et al.
3. Andrew Tyndall, “Issues? What Issues?” Tyndall Report (blog), October 25, 2016, http://tyndallreport.com/comment/20/5778/.
4. Thomas E. Patterson, “News Coverage of the 2016 General Election: How the Press Failed the Voters,” Shorenstein Center, December 7, 2016, https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/.
5. Jeff Stein, “Study: Hillary Clinton’s TV Ads Were Almost Entirely Policy-Free,” Vox, March 8, 2017, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/8/14848636/hillary-clinton-tv-ads.
6. Wikipedia, s.v. “Harry and Louise,” last modified November 6, 2017, 19:35, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_and_Louise.
7. “Harry and Louise on Clinton’s Health Plan,” YouTube video, 1:00, posted by danieljbmitchell, July 15, 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt31nhleeCg.
8. Martha Shanahan, “5 Memorable Moments When Town Hall Meetings Turned to Rage,” NPR, August 7, 2013, https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/08/07/209919206/5-memorable-moments-when-town-hall-meetings-turned-to-rage.
9. Text of Facebook post available at Dan Farber, “Palin Weighs In on Health Care Reform,” CBS News, August 8, 2009, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/palin-weighs-in-on-health-care-reform/.
10. Angie Drobnic Holan, “PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘Death Panels’,” PolitiFact, December 18, 2009, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/dec/18/politifact-lie-year-death-panels/.
11. Atul Gawande, “Overkill,” New Yorker, May 11, 2015, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande.
12. Bradley Sawyer and Cynthia Cox, “How Does Health Spending in the U.S. Compare to Other Countries?” Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker, February 13, 2018, https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries.
13. To be fair, it’s not all bad news. The US performs better than other countries on a number of metrics, including several statistics relative to cancer survival. See Sawyer and Gonzales, “How Does the Quality of the U.S. Healthcare System Compare to Other Countries?”
14. “American’s #1 Health Problem,” American Institute of Stress, accessed May 10, 2018, https://www.stress.org/americas-1-health-problem/.
15. “Stop Protecting the Employer-Based Healthcare System,” Washington Examiner, March 9, 2017, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/stop-protecting-the-employer-based-healthcare-system.
16. Simon Sinek, “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action,” filmed at TEDxPuget Sound, September 2009, video, 17:58, https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.
CHAPTER 4: PUT POLITICS IN ITS PLACE
1. Paul E. Peterson et al., “Ten-Year Trends in Public Opinion from the EdNext Poll,” Education Next 17, no. 1 (Winter 2017), http://educationnext.org/ten-year-trends-in-public-opinion-from-ednext-poll-2016-survey/.
2. “Religion,” Gallup, accessed June 20, 2018, http://news.gallup.com/poll/1690/religion.aspx.
3. Art Swift, “Americans’ Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low,” Gallup, September 14, 2016, http://news.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx.
4. J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy (New York: HarperCollins, 2016), 194.
5. Vance, 142.
6. David A. Graham, “Why Ordinary Citizens Are Acting as First Responders in Houston,” Atlantic, August 28, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/ordinary-citizens-are-first-responders/538233/.
7. Graham.
8. Amanda Young, “Prison Choir Captures Gold in World Choir Games,” WLWT5 News, July 13, 2012, http://www.wlwt.com/article/prison-choir-captures-gold-in-world-choir-games/3523719.
9. “There Will Be a Wednesday,” Pantsuit Politics, November 6, 2016, http://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/new-blog/2016/11/6/there-will-be-a-wednesday.
CHAPTER 5: GIVE GRACE
1. “Buechner Themes: Hope Through Grace,” Frederick Buechner (website), accessed May 11, 2018, http://www.frederickbuechner.com/hope-through-grace/. Originally published in Buechner’s book Wishful Thinking (New York: Harper & Row, 1973).
2. Michael Wear, “Pro-Life Voters and Pro-Choice Politicians,” Michael Wear (blog), December 14, 2017, http://michaelwear.com/blog/2017/12/14/pro-life-voters-and-pro-choice-politicians.
3. “Special Guest Bob Inglis on Climate Change and Free Enterprise,” Pantsuit Politics, October 7, 2016, http://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/show-archives/2016/10/7/season-2-episode-20-special-guest-bob-inglis-on-climate-change-and-free-enterprise?rq=bob%20.
4. “Brother David Steindl-Rast: Happiness Begins with Gratitude,” Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations (podcast), October 30, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YxT-mZi1bU.
5. “A Response to Christopher, Who Says We Are Fake News,” Pantsuit Politics, April 27, 2017, http://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/new-blog/2017/4/27/a-response-to-christopher-who-says-we-are-fake-news.
6. “The Great Redhead Debate,” Pantsuit Politics, September 19, 2016, http://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/show-archives/2016/9/19/season-2-episode-15-the-great-redhead-debate.
7. Byron Katie, quoted in Martha Beck, “The Three Questions You Need to Ask Yourself Before Criticizing Someone,” Oprah.com, accessed June 21, 2018, http://www.oprah.com/inspiration/martha-beck-how-to-stop-criticizing-everyone.
CHAPTER 6: GET CURIOUS
1. Steve Liesman, “What’s in a Name? Lots When It Comes to Obamacare/ACA,” CNBC, September 26, 2013, https://www.cnbc.com/2013/09/26/whats-in-a-name-lots-when-it-comes-to-obamacareaca.html.
2. Maane Khatchatourian, “Jimmy Kimmel: Americans Don’t Know Difference Between Obamacare, Affordable Care Act,” Variety, October 1, 2013, http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-americans-dont-know-difference-between-obamacare-affordable-care-act-1200685381/.
3. The UN Security Council’s five permanent members—China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States—plus Germany.
4. James Taranto, “The Politicization of Motherhood,” Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-politicization-of-motherhood-1509144044.
5. “Democrat National Convention: Part I,” Pantsuit Politics, July 27, 2016, http://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/show-archives/2016/7/27/democrat-national-convention-part-i?rq=dnc.
CHAPTER 7: EMBRACE THE PARADOX
1. Jeffrey M. Jones, “Americans’ Identification as Independents Back Up in 2017,” Gallup, January 8, 2018, http://news.gallup.com/poll/225056/americans-identification-independents-back-2017.aspx.
2. “Jon Stewart’s America,” Crossfire, CNN.com, October 15, 2004, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf.01.html.
3. Paul Begala, “Begala: The Day Jon Stewart Blew Up My Show,” CNN, February 12, 2015, https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/12/opinion/begala-stewart-blew-up-crossfire/index.html.
4. Richard Rohr, A New Way of Seeing . . . A New Way of Being: Jesus and Paul, Center for Action and Contemplation, 2007, audio CD.
5. Krista Tippett, Einstein’s God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit (New York: Penguin Books, 2010), 7.
6. “The Briefcase: Dr. Tamara Tweel on Involuntary Miscarriages and Voluntary Abortions,” Pantsuit Politics, February 3, 2017, http://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/show-archives/2017/2/2/season-3-episode-4-dr-tamara-tweel.
7. Tamara Mann, “Heartbeat: My Involuntary Miscarriage and ‘Voluntary Abortion’ in Ohio,” The Blog, HuffPost, November 1, 2012, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tamara-mann/heartbeat-involuntary-miscarriage-and-voluntary-abortion-in-ohio_b_2050888.html.
8. Mann.
9. “The Briefcase” episode.
10. “The Briefcase” episode.
CHAPTER 8: GET COMFORTABLE WITH BEING UNCOMFORTABLE
1. Nick DiUlio, “More Than Half of American Adults Don’t Have a Will,” Fox Business, February 6, 2017, https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/02/06/more-than-half-american-adults-dont-have-will.html.
2. Sherry Pagoto, “The Real Reason We Don’t Exercise,” Psychology Today, November 10, 2014, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/shrink/201411/the-real-reason-we-dont-exercise.
3. Pema Chödrön, “Pema Chödrön ‘Dunzie’,” YouTube video, 2:02, posted by Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, September 1, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7kFvETUT3s.
4. Amanda Petrusich, “‘American Vandal’ and Our Search for Meaning,” The New Yorker, January 1, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/american-vandal-and-our-search-for-meaning.
5. Katherine Freund et al., “Hospice Eligibility in Patients Who Died in a Tertiary Care Center,” Journal of Hospital Medicine 7, no. 3 (March 2012): 218–23, https://www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/article/127524/hospice-eligibility.
6. [Format of communication (Facebook direct message, email message, etc.)] to authors, [Date].
7. Kathryn Casteel, “There Is More Than One Opioid Crisis,” FiveThirtyEight, January 17, 2018, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-is-more-than-one-opioid-crisis/.
8. Casteel. It’s likely that we don’t have accurate information because of the way that such deaths are reported. The numbers could be even higher.
9. Jesse Mechanic, “When a Drug Epidemic Hit White America, Addiction Became a Disease,” Huffington Post, July 10, 2017, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/when-a-drug-epidemic-hit-white-america-addiction-became_us_5963a588e4b08f5c97d06b9a.
10. Tom McKee, “Narcan Debate: Saves Lives or Enables Addicts?” WCPO Cincinnati, August 27, 2016, https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/kenton-county/narcan-debate-save-lives-or-enables-addicts.
11. “Opioid Overdose: Prescribing Data,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, last updated August 30, 2017, https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/prescribing.html.
12. “The Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in the Opioid Epidemic,” Addictions.com, accessed May 12, 2018, https://www.addictions.com/opiate/the-role-of-pharmaceutical-companies-in-the-opioid-epidemic/.
13. Douglas C. McDonald, Kenneth Carlson, David Izrael, “Geographic Variation in Opioid Prescribing in the U.S.,” Journal of Pain 13, no. 10 (October 2012): 988–96, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2012.07.007.
14. Sarah Kliff, “‘We Started It’: Atul Gawande on Doctors’ Role in the Opioid Epidemic,” Vox, September 8, 2017, https://www.vox.com/2017/9/8/16270370/atul-gawande-opioid-weeds.
15. “Opioid Overdose: Prescription Opioid Data,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
16. Leonid Bershidsky, “Supply, Not Despair, Caused the Opioid Epidemic,” Bloomberg Opinion, January 10, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-10/supply-not-despair-caused-the-opioid-epidemic.
17. Rebecca L. Haffajee and Michelle M. Mello, “Drug Companies’ Liability for the Opioid Epidemic,” New England Journal of Medicine 377 (2017): 2301–2305, https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1710756.
18. “Doctors & Medical Industry Complicit in Opioid Epidemic?” Northeast Addictions Treatment Center, December 6, 2017, https://neaddictions.com/doctors-medical-industry-complicit-opioid-epidemic/.
19. Adam Grant, “Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting?” New York Times, November 4, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/opinion/sunday/kids-would-you-please-start-fighting.html.
20. Tara Brach, “Tara Talks—What Are You Unwilling to Feel?” YouTube video, 2:42, posted by Tara Brach, May 2, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhzLZjp2Q pQ.
21. Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1981; New York: Schocken Books, 2001), 180.
22. “P.S. About the First Amendment,” Pantsuit Politics, August 17, 2017, http://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/new-blog/2017/8/17/ps-about-the-first-amendment.
23. Quoted in Bill Moyers’s remarks at Coffin’s funeral, transcript at “Remembering Bill Coffin: Bill Moyers,” PBS, April 20, 2006, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2006/04/20/april-20–2006-remembering-bill-coffin-bill-moyers/2954/.
CHAPTER 9: EXIT THE ECHO CHAMBER
1. Reuters, “Most American Adults Get News from Social Media,” Fortune, September 8, 2017, http://fortune.com/2017/09/08/facebook-twitter-snap-news/.
2. Email to authors, November 30, 2016.
3. Letter used with permission.
4. Email to authors, January 25, 2018.
CHAPTER 10: KEEP IT NUANCED
1. JTowne, “Godmother of a New Genre?” review of Pantsuit Politics podcast, March 4, 2016, iTunes.
2. Saturday Night Live, “Dinner Discussion,” featuring Heidi Gardner, Will Ferrell, Beck Bennett, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, and Kenan Thompson, aired January 27, 2018, on NBC, available online as YouTube video, 4:25, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evWiz6WRbCA.
3. Katie Way, “I Went on a Date with Aziz Ansari. It Turned into the Worst Night of My Life,” babe.net, January 13, 2018, https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355.
4. Jasmine Andersson, “The Allegations Against Aziz Ansari Should Not Surprise Us—Just Because Men Call Themselves Feminists It Doesn’t Mean They Are,” Independent, January 14, 2018, https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/aziz-ansari-master-of-none-sexual-misconduct-allegations-feminism-a8158886.html.
5. Caitlin Flanagan, “The Humiliation of Aziz Ansari,” The Atlantic, January 14, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-humiliation-of-aziz-ansari/550541/.
6. Steffanee Wang, “Aziz Ansari Accused of ‘Sexual Assault’ by a Brooklyn Photographer,” Fader, January 14, 2018, http://www.thefader.com/2018/01/14/aziz-ansari-sexual-assault-accusation.