Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from FDR

How Loretta Lynn, country music and a rural Republican tide changed U.S. politics

At the peak of her fame in the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn was part of a key change in the politics of country music — a change akin to the shifting partisan leanings of the music's most loyal fans.

WEKU

A major renewal of the middle class?

Don't despair! We may be at a crucial hinge of history, like the one FDR faced in 1933. A new era is waiting

Salon

FDR's court-packing scheme: Another try?

FDR's plan to expand the Supreme Court nearly derailed his presidency. That doesn't mean it was a bad idea

Salon

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Ramesh Ponnuru: Biden's no FDR. He's not even Obama

Democrats have every right to be pleased that they passed another big spending bill, but a lot of them are getting carried away. Longtime Democratic consultant Robert Shrum celebrated the momentum behind the passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act by tweeting, “Biden is the most legislatively successful President since…

Tribune News Service

Jon Talton: Jeff Bezos adds his own misdirection on the inflation debate

It’s not unprecedented for titans of industry to attack presidents. Henry Ford was so outraged over former President Franklin Roosevelt’s Hundred Days of initial policies to address the Great Depression that he huffed FDR’s “particular genius is to try to run other people’s businesses.”

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The Supreme Court is not accountable to the people. So what can check its power?

If Supreme Court justices had to run for reelection, a number of them would be in big trouble. Last week the court issued radical decisions that boldly defied American opinion on both abortion and guns. It overturned Roe v. Wade and about 20 other cases that had protected the right…

Los Angeles Times

Is escalation in Ukraine part of the US strategy?

The aim of the billions committed through the Lend-Lease plan could tip the geopolitical balance. History may be about to repeat itself, says Adam Tooze of Columbia University

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

This Day In Market History: FDR Takes US Off The Gold Standard

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On April 18, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the U.S. dollar off of the gold standard.

Benzinga

First Lady doesn't live up to its icons

Not even Viola Davis, Gillian Anderson and Michelle Pfeiffer can save this loose braid of slight biographical drama

Salon

It's time to nationalize fossil fuel

Un-American, you say? Tell that to FDR, Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Obama, who all nationalized major industries

Salon

The First Lady review – star-studded series is a third-rate disappointment

The series on three first ladies falls flat despite a stacked cast, including Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt

The Guardian - US

This Day In Market History: Investors Unfazed By FDR's Death

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On April 13, 1945, stocks traded higher after U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office. Where The Market Was: The Dow finished the day at 159.75. The S&P 500 traded at…

Benzinga

GOP Gov. Sununu calls Trump ‘crazy’ and more at Gridiron Dinner

Sununu is the very rare Republican like Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois willing to call out the election-denying, conspiracy-mongering Trump.

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden's new budget ditches FDR-style spending ambitions

The budget blueprint Biden released tries to address the deep economic uncertainty caused by inflation.

Axios

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Salon

A Republican who wanted world government

It sounds like alternate history: A Republican who ran against FDR — from the left. Meet Wendell Willkie

1 2 3 4

People

Ketanji Brown Jackson

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.