The Democratic Party is a mishmash of causes and interest groups. The party’s future will be determined by how its leaders balance and align the interests of its diverse factions.
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On April 5, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps, a massive relief program that paid young men to plant trees and build parks across the nation. It was money well spent.
In the 1950s, religious language found its way into government and politics, due in no small part to Billy Graham.
The speech was delivered with panache and confidence. It had style, declaring to the nation and the world that he, Cyril Ramaphosa, was in charge.
Throughout American history, being a black celebrity has been a political act in and of itself. When viewed through this lens, the transition into politics for someone like Winfrey is more natural.
The American middle class has been on a rocky ride during the 20th century, surging after World War II but falling since the 1980s. The Republican tax plan may be its death knell.
Knott’s Berry Farm and others romanticize the state’s past and influence visitors’ sense of history. But their ideology reflects mid-20th-century political conservatism more than settlers’ reality.
Cutting back or cutting out social safety net programs, as the Senate and House health care proposals would do, is rare. Here’s a look at how such actions have fared.
No other nation has conjoined business success and piety quite like America has. Is Donald Trump’s election a strange perversion of this tradition?
The collapse of New Deal-era policies gave rise to deep-seated frustrations. Addressing that anger will require mobilizing workers, business leaders and others to get wages rising again.
On the 20th anniversary of Bill Clinton’s promise to “end welfare as we know it,” a social work scholar asks why child poverty is still such a problem in the U.S. and what race has to do with it.
He was a former Democrat, a business tycoon and a media star. The story of Wendell Willkie, the Republicans’ surprise candidate in the 1940 election and how he disrupted the GOP.
Welcome to part two of Back to the Future. Through the Securities and Exchange Commission, James M. Landis helped legitimise the authority of the state to intervene in capital markets, despite a judiciary…
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