Domestic Policy 
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SOURCE: KPFA
5/10/2021
Why the New Deal Still Matters Today
Eric Rauchway of UC Davis joins Letters and Poltics on Pacifica Radio to discuss the ongoing legacy of the New Deal.
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SOURCE: Public Seminar
3/11/2021
The United States Is Picking Up Where The Great Society Left Off
by John Stoehr
Comparing the recent COVID relief bill to the 2009 bailout of the subprime crisis shows a rapid turn away from the Republican and New Democratic consensus that social welfare assistance must be tied to work and limited to people who are "deserving."
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SOURCE: Time
1/8/19
The U.S. Has Been in a Constant State of National Emergency Since 1979. Here’s Why
by Olivia B. Waxman
Not only are national emergencies more common than most Americans probably realize, they can also go on for decades.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
12-20-16
Obama Administration Report Card: Domestic Policy
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
Grade C+
News
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- Does Germany's Holocaust Education Give Cover to Nativism?
- "Car Brain" Has Long Normalized Carnage on the Roads
- Hawley's Use of Fake Patrick Henry Quote a Revealing Error
- Health Researchers Show Segregation 100 Years Ago Harmed Black Health, and Effects Continue Today
- Nelson Lichtenstein on a Half Century of Labor History
- Can America Handle a 250th Anniversary?
- New Research Shows British Industrialization Drew Ironworking Methods from Colonized and Enslaved Jamaicans
- The American Revolution Remains a Hotly Contested Symbolic Field
- Untangling Fact and Fiction in the Story of a Nazi-Era Brothel