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The New FDR?

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On April 13, 2021

Eric Rauchway is perhaps the finest working historian on the New Deal. He sees interesting parallels between Roosevelt and Biden, as this interview with Greg Sargent shows. Sargent: In the 1932 electi

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The White Nostalgia of the CCC

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On October 28, 2020
We have our annual (at least) longing to fix our national problems through reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps. In 1933, with the country deep in the Great Depression, the United States government created the Civilian Conservation Corps, a work program that gave young men jobs transforming the American landscape. They built trails and roads, fought […]

The New New Deal

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On May 17, 2020

Lizabeth Cohen is one of our most prominent historians of the mid-20th century. Now that we are in the early stages of what looks like the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, we are hear

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Above: General Electric president Gerald Swope David Leonhart had a piece in the Times yesterday that repeats a commonly-held notion about the mid-century American economy: that CEO’s were kindlier and gentler, less greedy and accepting of unions. The October 1944 edition of Fortune magazine carried an article by a corporate executive that makes for amazing […]
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Above: Works Progress Administration project, Utah Mittens’ daughter is pretty bright. From open borders to government-guaranteed jobs, today’s Democrats are no longer the party of FDR. https://t.co/MOyahsJFEm — Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) July 21, 2018 If there’s one thing FDR hated, it’s government work programs. I mean, sure there’s the TVA, CCC, PWA, WPA, FSA, RA, […]
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