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Christine Barbour teaches in the Political Science Department at Indiana University, and directs the department's IU POLS DC internship program. She is a faculty liaison for the University's dual-credit program, which delivers an online version of her Intro to American Politics class to high school students across the state. At Indiana, Professor Barbour has been a Lilly Fellow, working on a project to increase student retention in large introductory courses, and a member of the Freshman Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience. She has served on the New York Times College Advisory Board, working with other educators to develop ways to integrate newspaper reading into the undergraduate curriculum. She has won multiple teaching honors, but the two awarded by her students mean the most to her: the Indiana University Student Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty and the Indiana University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award. When not teaching or writing textbooks, Professor Barbour enjoys traveling with her coauthor, blogging about food and travel, and playing with her dogs and cat. She contributes to Bloom Magazine of Bloomington and is a coauthor several cookbooks. She also makes jewelry from precious metals and rough gemstones. If she ever retires, she will open a jewelry shop in a renovated Airstream on the beach in Apalachicola, Florida, where she plans to write another cookbook and a book about the local politics, development, and fishing industry. Matthew J. Streb is professor and chair in the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. He specializes and teaches in areas of political parties, elections, polling and public opinion, and Congress. Streb is the author, editor, or co-editor of several books, including Law and Election Politics (2013), Rethinking American Electoral Democracy (2011), and Running for Judge (2007), and has published articles in journals, including Political Research Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Social Science Quarterly, and American Politics Research. Streb has been recognized by the NIU Foundation for "Faculty Excellence".

Chapter 1 Introduction to American Politics 1.1 A Remarkable, Historic Period of Change - Ezra Klein 1.2 The Rebirth of American Civic Life - Robert D. Putnam 1.3 Inaugural Address - John F. Kennedy Chapter 2 Political Culture and Ideology 2.1 Harmony and the Dream - David Brooks 2.2 America's New Culture War: Free Enterprise vs. Government Control - Arthur C. Brooks 2.3 Left, right: The brain science of politics - Kate Gluek 2.4 Today's Politics: Coalition of Transcendent vs. Coalition of Restoration - Ronald Brownstein 2.5 Is Rush Limbaugh's Country Gone? - Thomas Edsall 2.6 Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln Chapter 3 Immigration and American Demographics 3.1 Not Legal Not Leaving - Jose Antonio Vargas 3.2 Why the Red States Will Benefit Most from Immigration - Joel Kotkin 3.3 The End of Multiculturalism - Lawrence E. Harrison 3.4 What America Will We Pick? - Eugene Robinson 3.5 I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King Jr. Chapter 4 Federalism and the Constitution 4.1 "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" for Friday, May 15, 2009 - Keith Olbermann 4.2 An Iowa Fox in California's Hen House - Editorial, The Press Democrat 4.3 Our Imbecilic Constitution - Sanford Levinson 4.4 Federalist No. 51 - James Madison Chapter 5 Civil Liberties 5.1 Obama's New Frame: Gun Rights Vs. The Right to Life - Jill Lawrence 5.2 The courts, birth control and phony claims of 'religious liberty' - Barry W. Lynn 5.3 We are Shocked, shocked... - David Simon 5.4 Dead Letter Office - Dahlia Lithwick 5.5 Federalist No. 84 - Alexander Hamilton Chapter 6 Civil Rights 6.1 Segregated prom tradition yields to unity - Jamie Gumbrecht 6.2 A Father's Journey - Frank Bruni 6.3 Trent Franks's abortion claim and the manly Republican Party - Dana Milbank 6.4 A More Perfect Union - Barack Obama Chapter 7 Congress 7.1 Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem - Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein 7.2 Say Goodbye to Gridlock in Washington - Ira Shapiro 7.3 Big State, Small State - Adam Liptak 7.4 The Great Gerrymander of 2012 - Sam Wang 7.5 Declaration of Conscience - Margaret Chase Smith Chapter 8 The Presidency 8.1 The Real Agenda - Editorial, New York Times 8.2 How to Measure for a President - John Dickerson 8.3 The Presider - Andrew Sullivan 8.4 The Powerless Presidency - Ryan Lizza 8.5 Excerpt from Speech to Congress - Abraham Lincoln Chapter 9 Bureaucracy 9.1 In Artist's Freeway Prank, Form Followed Function - Hugo Martin 9.2 Edward Snowden Is No Hero - Jeffrey Toobin 9.3 Judge Blocks New York City's Limits on Big Sugary Drinks - Michael M. Grynbaum 9.4 Special Message to the Congress Recommending the Establishment of a Department of National Defense - Harry S. Truman Chapter 10 The Courts 10.1 Obstruction of Judges - Jeffrey Rosen 10.2 No More Mr. Nice Guy - Jeffrey Toobin 10.3 Supreme Court Weighs Cases Redefining Legal Equality - Adam Liptak 10.4 The Cost of Compromise - Linda Greenhouse 10.5 Federalist No. 78 - Alexander Hamilton Chapter 11 Public Opinion 11.1 Party On, Dudes! - Matthew Robinson 11.2 The Rise of the Poll Quants (or, Why Sam Wang Might Eat a Bug) - Tom Bartlett 11.3 Pro-Life and Pro-Choice - Mark Mellman 11.4 The Other War Room - Joshua Green 11.5 Will the Polls Destroy Representative Democracy? - George Horace Gallup and Saul Forbes Rae Chapter 12 Political Parties 12.1 GOP vs. Voting Rights Act - William Yeomans 12.2 Conservatives, Don't Despair - David Frum 12.3 The Senate's 'Manchurian candidates' - Steve LaTourette 12.4 Introducing the Purple Party - Kurt Andersen 12.5 Farewell Address - George Washington Chapter 13 Interest Groups 13.1 Shy No More, N.R.A.'s Top Gun Sticks to Cause - Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Jodi Kantor 13.2 For-Profit Colleges Mount Unprecedented Battle For Influence In Washington - Chris Kirkham 13.3 Super PACs get new use -- as lobbying arms on Hill - Dave Leventhal 13.4 Federalist No. 10 - James Madison Chapter 14 Voting and Elections 14.1 A Vast Left-Wing Competency - Sasha Issenberg 14.2 On Voting, Listen to John Lewis - Michael Waldman 14.3 Obama vs. Campaign Finance Laws - John Wonderlich 14.4 Concession Speech - Al Gore Chapter 15 The Media 15.1 Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable - Clay Shirky 15.2 The Unskewed Election - Ben Smith and Ruby Cramer 15.3 Tearing down the conservative echo chambe - Joe Scarborough 15.4 Obama, the Puppet Master - Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen 15.5 5 (Weird) Ways Government is Experimenting with Social Media - Ryan Holmes 15.6 Mr. Hearst Answers High School Girl's Query - William Randolph Hearst Chapter 16 Domestic Policy 16.1 Zero Tolerance Lets a Student's Future Hang on a Knife's Edge - Barry Siegel 16.2 Has President Obama Done Enough for Black Americans? - George Condon Jr. and Jim O'Sullivan 16.3 President, Democrats must now focus on the real problem: Spending - Mitch McConnell 16.4 Fireside Chat - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Chapter 17 Foreign Policy 17.1 Long Engagements - George Packer 17.2 The Case for Missile Defense - Steve Bonta 17.3 Fund-Don't Cut-U.S. Soft Power - David Petraeus and Michael O'Hanlon 17.4 Speech Before the National Association of Evangelicals - Ronald Reagan