We Can All Do Better (29 page)

and politicians and political battles,
35–36

poll,
135
,
138

and reform,
14
,
38
,
143
,
145

as robbery,
98

and Rome,
42

on “things,”
89
,
155
,
158

and transfers of money,
32–33

See also
Corporations and companies: and taxes

Tea Party,
99
,
101
,
141
,
142
,
150
,
151
,
159

Team play,
71–74

Teenage pregnancy,
69

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),
95
,
98
,
102

Terrorism,
40
,
70–71
,
115
,
131
,
132
,
156

Thaçi, Hashim,
114

Think tanks,
12
,
144

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
(Reinhart and Rogoff),
20

3-D printing,
83

Thurmond, Strom,
147

Tillman Act of 1907,
49

Transportation,
x
,
25–26
,
28
,
96
,
97
,
101

Truman, Harry,
7

Turkey,
5
,
108
,
123

Unemployment

benefits,
18
,
20
,
22
,
31
,
32
,
89

in China,
27

and deficits,
31

and Great Depression,
91–94
,
118

hidden and uncounted,
88
,
89

and ideological Republicans,
98

and insecurity and anxiety,
77

intractability of,
21

and job creation,
22
,
23–24

mass,
44
,
54
,
102

and policymakers,
118

rates,
20–21
,
22

and Republicans,
143

and soldiers,
77

and stimulus,
18

taxes,
88

and wasted human capital,
84

UNESCO,
131

Unions,
161

and Americans Elect,
150

government,
52
,
101

and members' dues,
4

and wages and benefits,
80

United Nations (U.N.),
111
,
113
,
131

Unity08,
148–149

Upward mobility,
75–80
,
85
,
116

Venezuela,
123

Versailles,
110
,
111

Vietnam War,
4
,
111
,
112
,
115
,
139

Villa, Pancho,
109

Voting,
135–138
,
142–153
,
159

Voting Rights Act (1965),
138

Wall Street,
59
,
78
,
93

Wallace, George,
147
,
151

Wanxiang,
82–83

Warren, Earl,
50

Washington, George,
7
,
43
,
44

Washington club and culture,
153

and cynicism and complaint,
13
,
15
,
16

and Dodd–Frank,
59

and government reform,
104

and internal disputes,
13
,
14

and lobbyists,
14
,
48

and loopholes and earmarks,
32
,
37

and power and money,
12–13
,
14
,
47–62
,
159

and public's feelings of betrayal,
80

and smugness,
14

Watergate,
4

Wealth inequality,
75–76

Welcome to America,
65

Welfare,
97
,
99
,
100

Weller, Thomas,
65–66

Wikipedia,
74

Wilson, Edmund,
92

Wilson, Woodrow

and democracy,
ix
,
109
,
110
,
111
,
113

and foreign policy,
109–111

and government,
96
,
97

and 1912 election,
147

tough progressivism of,
7

and World War I,
109–110
,
114

Winfrey, Oprah,
10

World Bank,
111

World Trade Organization (WTO),
126
,
129

World War I,
105
,
109–110

World War II,
80
,
97
,
111
,
122