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Biden-Harris on Supreme Court Term Limits

An attack on the independence of the federal judiciary.

Reason

Banana Splits

I appreciate the replies from Orin, Will, and Sam. We have very different conceptions on what role a scholar should play and what role a judge should play. My writings in this area are both retrospective and prospective. I look backwards to see what qualifications a judge had at the…

Reason

Trump's Defiance of an Assassin's Bullet Reaffirmed Populist Appeal

Can the candidate turn crowd-pleasing nostrums into a program that will do more good than harm?

Reason

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Trump’s presidential office hours were the shortest since FDR, Biden’s not far behind him - Roll Call

Donald Trump’s working hours were shortest for any president since FDR. Joe Biden’s presidential office hours are third-shortest since 1933.

Roll Call

Presidential Office Hours: Donald Trump's Schedule Vs. FDR Through Obama - Roll Call

…A Hazy Shade of Winter… You know the drill. Headline first. Then a march through the methodology. If you want single-serving factoids, go to, well, pretty much anywhere else on the Internet. Donald Trump arrives in the office almost an hour later than any President since 1933. His average arrival…

Roll Call

David Beito: Was FDR a Tyrant?

David Beito discusses his new book The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.

Reason

Will Biden's ego bring Trump back to the White House?

Even President Joe Biden’s admirers are worrying about polls showing a close 2024 election, with one party insider fearing a “five-alarm fire.”

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How FDR Emasculated the Black Press in World War II

Instead of indulging in politically risky sedition prosecutions of the black press, the government relied on indirect methods of behind-the-scenes manipulation and intimidation.

Reason

How baseball endured through World War II

History sometimes forgets that Pearl Harbor also triggered one of the most significant letters in presidential history: the Green Light Letter in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged baseball owners to keep playing.

Chicago Sun-Times

Presidential pets can breed controversy. A dog was once suspected of being a spy

Historically, pets — everything from birds to cats to dogs — have been part of the White House. And Biden's dog Commander isn't alone. More than a few have ended up embroiled in some controversy.

WEKU

‘An end of American democracy’: Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s historic threat

The historian and Substack superstar says the US is in peril not seen since the civil war – and Joe Biden is its best defender

The Guardian - US

When the Left and Right Came Together To Applaud Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

A Republican, a Communist, and a Catholic conservative walk onto a movie set...

Reason

Joe Biden and the MSNBC bubble

MSNBC viewers are told that Biden is the greatest president since FDR. Why don't the American public agree?

Salon

Labor Day is now a key to Election Day for Democrats and Republicans alike

With all that has shifted around in American politics, the Democrats' disconnect from the broad working class is the loss that has cost them the most and threatens them most in the years ahead.

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Most Americans worry that Social Security will be drained in their lifetime. And Gen Z thinks they’ll never see their investment

Gen Zers and millennials are especially doubtful that they'll see Social Security payouts by retirement.

Cinemablend

What Are The Rules For New Girl’s True American? How To Play And The History Behind The Game

The history behind and the rules of True American, the drinking game from the Fox comedy New Girl.

Fortune

Bidenomics’ critics are being proven wrong. Happy days are here again

How has the U.S. economy proven so resilient? Partly due to Bidenomics, write Yale's Sonnenfeld and Tian.

Zenger

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Attempt To Criticize Biden’s Policies Backfires

Comparisons to FDR and LBJ draw White House response as US faces debt and inflation challenges.

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The Independent UK

Biden’s latest campaign video is a Marjorie Taylor Greene speech

The White House and Democratic members of Congress called Georgia Republican’s comparison a ‘compliment’

The Guardian - US

Cocaine in the White House: a brief history

The drug was found in the building this weekend – and it’s probably not the first time it’s been inside

Multichannel News

What History Wants You to Know About Its ‘FDR’ Docuseries

Programming SVP Mary Donohue says 32nd president’s substantial legacy offers takeaways relevant to today

The Guardian - US

The Democrats think centrism will re-elect Biden. That’s a dangerous assumption

The party has settled on a new playbook: shifting right and hoping demoralized voters are repulsed by Republicans

The Guardian - US

Unlikely Heroes review: the advisers who helped FDR shape America

Frances Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace are given their dues in a fascinating group biography

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Eisenhower's misgivings about military power still ring true

As an orator, Dwight D. Eisenhower was not in the same league with Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt. His roster of memorable speeches numbers a grand total of two, a paltry total for someone who served eight years as U.S. president. Yet some five decades after his death, those two…

Salon

How JFK hid his disability

Despite living with chronic pain in his bowels and back, JFK kept his disabilities secret from the public

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