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  • Letters From an American
    Heather Cox Richardson: Biden's New Chapter
    January 15, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Biden’s plan is far larger than a way to address our current crisis. It outlines a vision for America that reaches back to an older time, when both parties shared the idea that the government had a role to play in the economy, regulating business, providing a basic social safety net, and promoting infrastructure.

  • Democracy & Government
    How Decades of Corporate-Friendly Farm Policies Wrecked Rural America
    November 9, 2020
    | Jim Goodman
    And Paved the Way for Trump
  • Letters From an American
    The Republican Narrative
    July 27, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    No New Deal in sight
  • Economy & Work
    The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style
    May 28, 2020
    | Nomi Prins

    Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the world has certainly experienced its share of staggering jolts in the past, this cycle of events is likely to prove unparalleled.

  • History
    Fighting for the Four Freedoms
    May 21, 2020 | Updated January 5, 2016 | Moyers & Company
    Historian Harvey J. Kaye talks to Bill about why FDR's “Four Freedoms” are more important now than ever.
  • History
    The GOP Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal
    December 7, 2017
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.
  • Money & Politics
    GOP Angles for More Campaign Cash, Less Disclosure
    December 7, 2017
    | Arn Pearson
    Policy riders buried in tax and spending bills would let in more political money, less light.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Republican Long Game
    December 6, 2017
    | Neal Gabler
    Republicans have long dreamed of destroying the social safety net once and for all; this bill finally threatens to accomplish that.
  • Environment
    How Puerto Rico Recovered Before
    September 28, 2017
    | Kate Aronoff
    The island’s New Deal history offers an alternative to disaster capitalism.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Last Populist
    August 25, 2017
    | Ryan Cooper
    George McGovern’s alternative path for the Democratic Party.


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