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The Not-So-New Deal
The New Deal brought Black voters over to the Democratic Party, but was marred by racial inequality.
by
C. Vann Woodward
via
New York Review of Books
on
December 8, 1983
When FDR Took On the Supreme Court
The standard narrative of Roosevelt's court-packing efforts casts them as a failure. But what if they were a success?
by
John Fabian Witt
via
The Nation
on
June 27, 2023
On Economics And Democracy
High unemployment is extremely dangerous.
by
Zachary D. Carter
via
In The Long Run
on
July 29, 2022
Mike's Big Ditch
The failed canal project that could have saved cities like Youngstown, Ohio.
by
Vince Guerrieri
via
Belt Magazine
on
August 28, 2019
Welcoming Their Hatred
As Elon Musk and Donald Trump engaged in a campaign of mutually-assured destruction, social media saw record new levels of schadenfreude.
by
Kevin M. Kruse
via
Campaign Trails
on
June 6, 2025
Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024
As an individual, Jimmy Carter stood as a rebuke to our venal and heartless political class. As a politician, his private virtues proved to be public vices.
by
Tim Barker
via
Origins of Our Time
on
January 1, 2025
The Problems with Polls
Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.
by
Samuel Earle
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 26, 2024
Fragile Juggernaut
Introducing a project on US labor history, exploring what we can learn from 1930s-1950s industrial struggles.
by
Andrew Yamakawa Elrod
via
n+1
on
January 24, 2024
Rise of the Far-Right Ultras
A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The Nation
on
January 11, 2022
The Late ’30s Deplatforming of Father Coughlin
Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.
by
Thomas Doherty
via
Slate
on
January 21, 2021
American Fascism: It Has Happened Here
Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 22, 2020
The Fourth Battle for the Constitution
The latest struggle to define America's founding charter will define the country for generations to come.
by
Jeffrey Rosen
via
The Atlantic
on
September 25, 2019
Inside Every Foreigner
A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."
by
Jackson Lears
via
London Review of Books
on
February 21, 2019
What War of the Worlds Did
The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today.
by
Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey
via
Aeon
on
November 26, 2018
How to Measure Ghosts: Arthur C. Nielsen and the Invention of Big Data
How audience measurement became central to the creative and commercial development of television.
by
Matt Locke
via
Medium
on
November 16, 2017
From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American 'Elite'
American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.
by
Steven Conn
via
Origins
on
May 1, 2017
FDR's War Against the Press
Franklin Roosevelt had his own Breitbart, and radio was his Twitter.
by
David Beito
via
Reason
on
April 5, 2017
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