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The 2000s in America

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Table of Contents: The 2000s in America




Abortion




Abramoff, Jack




Abu Ghraib torture scandal




Academy Awards




Adelphia scandal




Airline industry




Alaska Airlines Flight 261




Alito, Samuel




Al-Qaeda




American Airlines Flight 587




American Idol




American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009




Anderson, Wes




Anthrax attacks




Apatow, Judd




Apple Inc.




Arcade Fire




Armstrong, Lance




Arrested Development




Art movements




Ashcroft, John




Autism




Automotive industry crisis




Auto-Tune




Avatar




Banned books




Beck, Glenn




Beltway snipers




Benoit, Chris




Bernanke, Ben




Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme




Biden, Joe




Biofuel




BlackBerry




Blagojevich, Rod




Blogging




Blu-ray Discs




Bonds, Barry




Border security




Boy Scouts of America v. Dale




Brady, Tom




Brin, Sergey and Larry Page




Brokeback Mountain




Bush administration scandals




Bush v.Gore




Bush, George W.




Bush, Laura




Business and economy in Canada




Business and economy in the United States




California electricity crisis




Cameron, James




Canada and the United States




Cancer research




Chabon, Michael




Cheney, Dick




Children on the Internet




Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000




Children’s literature




Chrétien, Jean




Cincinnati riots of 2001




Clarkson, Kelly




Classical music




Clinton, Hillary Rodham




Clooney, George




Cloud computing




The Colbert Report




Coldplay




Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000




Computer worms and viruses




Concussions in sports




Cooper, Anderson




Couric, Katie




Craigslist




Crimes and scandals




CSI: Crime Scene Investigation




Cyberbullying




Cybercrime




The Da Vinci Code




The Dark Knight




Decriminalization of Marijuana




DeGeneres, Ellen




Demographics of Canada




Demographics of the United States




Department of Homeland Security




Depp, Johnny




Desperate Housewives




Díaz, Junot




DiCaprio, Leonardo




Digital reading




District of Columbia v. Heller




DIY culture




Domestic and offshore oil drilling




Dot.com bubble




Drug war in Mexico




Early 2000s recession




eBay




E-books




E-commerce




Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001




Education in Canada




Education in the United States




Edwards, John




Eggers, Dave




Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision




Elections in Canada




Elections in the United States, 2000




Elections in the United States, 2004




Elections in the United States, 2008




Elections in the United States, midterm




Electronic health records




Emanuel, Rahm




Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008




Eminem




Employment in Canada




Employment in the United States




Energy drinks




Energy Policy Act of 2005




Energy Policy of the United States




Enron collapse




Extraordinary rendition




Facebook




Fads




Fahrenheit 9/11




Fairey, Shepard




Faith-based organizations




Family Guy




Fast Food Nation




Federer, Roger




Fey, Tina




FIFA World Cup




Film in the United States




Flash mobs




Food allergies




Food trends




Foreign policy of the United States




Franks, Tommy




Franzen, Jonathan




Freakonomics




Gaiman, Neil




Galifianakis, Zach




Gates, Bill and Melinda




Gates, Robert




Gawker Media




Geithner, Timothy




Genetically modified foods




Gibson, Mel




Giuliani, Rudolph




Gladiator




Gladwell, Malcolm




Global warming debate




Gonzales v. Carhart




Gonzales, Alberto




Google




Gore, Al




GPS navigation systems and tracking




Green business (sustainable business)




Green technology




Greenspan, Alan




Growth of megachurches




Grutter v. Bollinger




Guantánamo Bay detention camp




Gun control




H1N1 flu pandemic of 2009




Halo franchise




Hamdan v. Rumsfeld




Hanks, Tom




Hanssen, Robert Philip




Harper, Stephen




Harry Potter films




Hate crimes




Health care




Hilton, Paris




HIV/AIDS




Hoffman, Philip Seymour




Homosexuality and gay rights




Honeybee colony collapse disorder




Hosseini, Khaled




Hostages in Iraq




Housing market in the United States




Huffington, Arianna




Hulu




Human Genome Project




Hurricane Ike




Hurricane Katrina




Hurricane Rita




The Hurt Locker




Hybrid automobiles




Illinois v. Wardlow




IMAX




Immigration to the United States




Income and wages in the United States




An Inconvenient Truth




Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami




Indoor smoking bans




Intelligent design




Internet marketing




Internet memes




Inventions




iPhone




iPod




Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans




Iraq Resolution (2002)




Iraq War




Israel and the United States




Jackson, Michael




James, LeBron




Jay-Z




Jeffs, Warren




Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002




Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003




Jobs, Steve




Johnson, Denis




Johnson, Jimmie




Jones, Norah




Kennedy, Ted




Kerry, John




Keys, Alicia




Kilpatrick, Kwame




Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District




Knowles, Beyoncé




Koons, Jeff




Krugman, Paul




Kurzweil, Ray




Kyoto Protocol




Lady Gaga




Large-scale forest death




Late 2000s recession




Ledger, Heath




Lindh, John Walker




Literature in the United States




The Lord of the Rings trilogy




Lost




Lost in Translation




Low-carb diets




Mad Men




Maddow, Rachel




March for Women’s Lives




Marianas Trench Marine National Monument




Mars Exploration Rover mission




Martin, Paul




Mashup




McCain, John




McCarthy, Cormac




Medical marijuana




Medical tourism




Medicine




Microcredit




Military Commissions Act of 2006




Millennium celebrations




Miller, Judith




A Million Little Pieces




Minimum wage increase




Minneapolis I-35W bridge collapse




Mobile phones




Modern Family




Mortensen, Viggo




Murdoch, Rupert




Music industry in the United States




MySpace




Natalee Holloway disappearance




National debt




National Do Not Call Registry




National Endowment for the Arts




Native Americans




Netflix




Newmark, Craig




Newspaper industry




No Child Left Behind Act of 2001




Nobel Prizes




Northeastern blackout of 2003




Nuclear proliferation




Obama, Barack




Obama, Michelle




Obesity




The Office




Oil crisis




Olympic Games




The Omnivore’s Dilemma




Online gambling




Online music services




Open source code




O’Reilly, Bill




Organic food industry




Organized crime




The Osbournes




Osteen, Joel




Oz, Mehmet




Palin, Sarah




Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act




The Passion of the Christ




Paul, Ron




Paulson, Henry




Pausch, Randy




Pelosi, Nancy




Pharmaceutical industry




Phelps, Michael




Phishing




Photography




Photovoltaics




Pickens, T. Boone




Piracy




Pirates of the Caribbean series




Pixar Animation Studios




Plame scandal




Plouffe, David




Police brutality




Political talk radio




Popular music




Powell, Colin




Private military companies




Private militias




Radiohead




Ray, Rachael




Reality television




Religion and spirituality in the United States




Retirement income system




Rhode Island nightclub fire




Rice, Condoleezza




Road, The




Roberts, John




Rock music




Romney, Mitt




Roper v. Simmons




Rove, Karl




Rowley, Coleen




Rumsfeld, Donald




Saddam Hussein capture




Same-sex marriage




Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002




Satellite radio




Saw franchise




School violence




Schwarzenegger, Arnold




Science and technology




Second Life




Sedaris, David




Self-publishing




September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks




Shrek film series




The Sims




Slang and slogans




Slumdog Millionaire




Smith, Will




Soccer




Social media




The Sopranos




Sotomayor, Sonia




Space shuttle Columbia disaster




Space tourism




Spears, Britney




Spielberg, Steven




Stem cell research




Steroids in baseball




Stewart, Jon




Stewart, Martha




Subprime mortgage crisis




Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy




Super Size Me




Superhero films




Supreme Court decisions




Survivor




Sustainable food movement




Tea Party movement




Television




Terri Schiavo case




Terrorist attacks




Texting




There Will Be Blood




Timberlake, Justin




Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)




Trump, Donald




24




Twilight series




Twitter




2007 Southern California wildfires




United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui




US Airways Flight 1549




US sanctions against Iran




USA PATRIOT Act




Usher




USS Cole bombing




Vaccinations




Venter, Craig




Vick, Michael




Video games




Virginia Tech massacre




Wales, Jimmy




Wallace, David Foster




War in Afghanistan




War on Terrorism




Warren, Rick




Washington, Denzel




Waterboarding




West Virginia/Kentucky coal sludge spill




West, Kanye




White, Jack




Wi-Fi




WikiLeaks




Wikipedia




Wilco




Williams, Serena




Winfrey, Oprah




The Wire




Wolfwitz, Paul




Women’s rights




Woods, Tiger




World of Warcraft




WorldCom scandal




Wright, Jeremiah




Writers Guild of America strike




YouTube




Zelman v. Simmons-Harris




Zuckerberg, Mark




Entertainment: Major Films of the 2000s




Entertainment: Academy Awards




Entertainment: Major Broadway Plays and Awards




Entertainment: Most-Watched US Television Shows




Entertainment: Emmy Awards




Entertainment: Top Selling Video Games of the 2000s




Literature: Best-Selling US Books




Literature: Major Literary Awards




Music: Grammy Awards




Sports: Winners of Major Events




Popular Names of the 2000s




Chronological List of Scandals




Time Line




Bibliography




Glossary




List of Entries by Category




Photo Index




Subject Index




Publisher’s Note