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A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.

The right’s facile comparisons of the two presidents miss the vastly different circumstances facing Biden and distort Carter’s record.

One bank's desperation and a state's economic needs undermined regulations protecting consumers.

The economist, along with David Card, was instrumental in changing America’s mind about the minimum wage.

For political reasons, powerful people don’t want the country to pay its bills. History shows all that could go wrong.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.

On deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.

On Populist programs and democratic central banking.

Jonathan Alter on Jimmy Carter ditching politics for truth.

How a New Deal senator’s anti-monopoly investigations changed American business.

Federal deposit insurance and the 1980s bank crisis.

Four changes are especially important when we try to measure changes in the poverty rate since 1964.

In 1979, Carter's "malaise speech," shaped by sociological insights, sought national unity but clashed with Reagan's appeal to individualism.

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

"None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers."

Representative Mo Udall's ambitious strategy to wean the United States off fossil fuels by the year 2000.