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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.

Zenger · Jul 18, 2023

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 Independent UK · Jul 17, 2023

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

The Guardian - US · Jul 6, 2023

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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

Multichannel News · May 26, 2023

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 · May 1, 2023

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

The Guardian - US · Apr 8, 2023

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…

Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2023

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How JFK hid his disability

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

Salon · Feb 21, 2023

Joe Biden might be a great president

Don't laugh: As a presidential historian, I can tell you that FDR and LBJ were also underestimated at first

Salon · Jan 20, 2023

Here's how to fix the Supreme Court

Historian David Gans on the lessons of Reconstruction, when Congress enforced reforms on a stubborn Supreme Court

Salon · Jan 15, 2023

‘The US can still become a fascist country’: Frances Fox Piven’s midterms postmortem

The 90-year-old sociologist on ‘vengeance politics’, cruelty and climate change as she looks back on half a century of activism

The Guardian - US · Nov 24, 2022

From My Commonplace Book, 2

Robert Oppenheimer on the death of FDR.

Reason · Nov 7, 2022

Commentary: Trump has offered to negotiate peace in Ukraine, but he is no Wendell Willkie

Former President Donald Trump has offered to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine, a bizarre concept that illustrates just how far America has fallen from the days when leaders of both major parties collaborated to support global democracy.

Chicago Tribune · Oct 24, 2022

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 · Oct 8, 2022

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Salon · Sep 9, 2022

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 · Sep 4, 2022

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

Tribune News Service · Aug 16, 2022

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 · Jul 8, 2022

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.”

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Los Angeles Times · Jun 29, 2022

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…

The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2022

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

Benzinga · Apr 18, 2022

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.

Salon · Apr 17, 2022

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 · Apr 15, 2022

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

The Guardian - US · Apr 13, 2022

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

Benzinga · Apr 13, 2022

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…

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