Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The author of a new biography explains how liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.

High unemployment is extremely dangerous.

For 80 years, wieners have been an essential component of foreign policy.

Ukraine’s wartime communications strategies have roots in World War II.

A century of tax avoidance later, the dynasties created in the 1900s are going strong.

Pass the free enterprise, please.

Today's centrists are a hot mess.

A six-hour workday could have become the national standard during the Great Depression. Here's the story of why that didn't happen.

The new agreement echoes the original 1941 version, but mentions human rights and dignity explicitly, envisioning them as a starting point for the world order.

Let's talk about the period when Roosevelt actually created the modern welfare state.

Democrats’ policies aim to address societal problems to make fascism and socialism less attractive.

History shows that boosting the minimum wage leads to consumer spending.

Material benefits trumped FDR's terrible civil rights records.

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past record, is not always what you get from a president once in power.

Court packing obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court.

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.

She designed Social Security and public works programs that helped bring millions out of poverty. Her work has been largely forgotten.

The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation.

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.

“The idea that the federal government would be providing emergency relief and emergency work was extraordinary,” one sociologist said. “And people liked it.”