The Conscience of a Liberal

30.

“Was Campaigning Against Voter Fraud a Republican Ploy?” McClatchy Washington Bureau, July 1, 2007, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/ homepage/story/17532.html.

10 THE NEW RULES OF EQUALITY

1.

Update by McCarty, Poole, and Rosenthal at http://voteview.com/hou110.htm.

2.

See Sydney Ludvigson, “Consumer Confidence and Consumer Spending,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, no. 2 (Spring 2004), pp. 29–50. Current data from www.pollingreport.com.

3.

Trends in Political Values and Core Attitudes, 1987–2007 (Pew Research Center for People and the Press, Mar. 2007), http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/312.pdf.

4.

Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (PublicAffairs, 2002).

5.

The best overview of the follies of reconstruction is Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone (Knopf, 2006). On the police academy, “Heralded Police Academy a ‘disaster’,” Washington Post, Sept. 28, 2006, p. A01.

6.

Ruy Texeira and John Judis, “Back to the Future: The Re-emergence of the Emerging Democratic Majority,” American Prospect, June 2007.

7.

John Judis, “Continental Divide: Why the Immigration Bill Will Never Become Law,” New Republic, May 23, 2007.

8.

http://bluetiderising.blogspot.com/2007/07/kansas-republicans-unveil-unitypledge.html.

11 THE HEALTH CARE IMPERATIVE

1.

Molly Ivins, “Bucking the Texas Lockstep,” Washington Post, May 15, 2003, p. A29.

2.

Figure based on Kaiser Family Foundation, Trends and Indicators in the Changing Health Care Marketplace, exhibit 1.11. http://www.kff.org/insurance/7031/index.cfm.

3.

World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2000, available at http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/index.html.

4.

Commonwealth Fund, “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An Update on the Quality of American Health Care Through the Patient’s Lens,” http://www.commonwealthfund.org/ publications/publications_ show.htm? doc_id=364436.

5.

McKinsey Global Institute, Accounting for the Cost of U.S. Health Care, Jan. 2007, http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/ rp/healthcare/accounting_ cost_healthcare.asp.

6.

Gerard F. Anderson et al., “It’s the Prices, Stupid: Why the U.S. Is So Different from Other Countries,” Health Affairs 22, no. 3 (2003), pp. 89–105.

7.

McKinsey, Accounting for the Cost, p. 18.

8.

Steffie Woolhandler, Terry Campbell, and David U. Himmelstein, “Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada,” New England Journal of Medicine (Aug. 2003), pp. 768– 75.

9.

Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits Annual Survey 2006, exhibit 3.1, http://kff.org/insurance/7527/index.cfm.