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Graphic of NRA Blue Eagle, circa. 1933.

The Other NRA (Or How the Philadelphia Eagles Got Their Name)

Before it ubiquitously meant the National Rifle Association, the NRA had a very different meaning.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 22, 2013
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his desk.

FDR’s Second 100 Days Were Cooler Than His First 100 Days

Let's talk about the period when Roosevelt actually created the modern welfare state.
by Jordan Weissmann via Slate on May 1, 2021
A rally and march in New York City demanding that every vote be counted in the general election, despite Trump’s premature claim of victory, on November 4, 2020.

Defend Liberalism? Let’s Fight for Democracy First

America never really was liberal, and that’s not the right fight anyway. The fight now is for democracy.
by Jefferson Cowie via The New Republic on June 21, 2024
Reprint from the September 1966 issue of AFL-CIO American Federationist, Box 38, Folder 4, William Page Keeton Papers, Special Collections, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin.

Controlled Prices

Before the rise of macroeconomics that accompanied World War II, price determination was a central problem of economic thought.
by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod via Phenomenal World on January 12, 2022
Woman in the doorway of a kitchen.

Abolish Oil

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.
by Reinhold Martin via Places Journal on June 16, 2020

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