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Joe Biden Tried to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare for 40 Years

Joe Biden was once a New Deal Democrat. Then he “evolved” and starting backing decades of Republican plans to cut Medicare and Social Security.

by Branko Marcetic via Jacobin on January 29, 2020

Did Social Work Kill Civil Society?

A new book makes the case.

by John Hirschauer via National Review on September 10, 2019

The Surprising Origins of 'Medicare for All'

It was the original idea behind Medicare itself.

by Abigail Abrams via TIME on May 30, 2019

Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on May 29, 2019

Franklin Roosevelt on the campaign trail.

The Left is Pushing Democrats to Embrace Their Greatest President. It’s a Good Thing.

Democrats should proudly trumpet the New Deal — and extend it.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on January 14, 2019

Security camera

Known Unknowns

The elusive meaning of privacy in America.

by Katrina Forrester via Harper’s on September 1, 2018

Forgotten Feminisms: Johnnie Tillmon's Battle Against 'The Man'

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.

by Judith Shulevitz via New York Review of Books on June 26, 2018

Lessons From the Gilded Age

America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?

by Sarah Jones via The New Republic on June 13, 2018

Between Obama and Coates

Because both thinkers neglect political economy, they end up promoting a politics that is responsible for the nation's growing inequality.

by Touré F. Reed via Catalyst on March 12, 2018

The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal

Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.

by Heather Cox Richardson via BillMoyers.com on December 7, 2017

A Brief History of American Health Reform

In order to win universal health care, we have to understand what — and who — we're up against.

by Colin Gordon via Jacobin on July 25, 2017

An Enemy Until You Need a Friend

The role of "big government" in American history.

by Steven Conn via Origins on November 1, 2014

The Case for Reparations

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 23, 2014

Income tax form

Tax Time

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 19, 2012

A political cartoon of Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a crow on his shoulder, representing Jim Crow.

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

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