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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
10/17/19
The Greening of the New Deal
by Steve Fraser
The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now.
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SOURCE: NY Times
6/21/19
Which of the F.D.R. Wannabes Actually Understands New Deal Liberalism?
by Jonathan Alter
Suddenly, Franklin D. Roosevelt is all the rage. But many Democrats don’t understand what his legacy means.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
6/9/2019
Eric Rauchway tracks the progress from The New Deal to The Green New Deal
His latest book, “Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt And The First Clash Over The New Deal” ― is an engaging, character-driven tour through the philosophical debates and political knife-fighting at the nadir of the Great Depression.
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4/21/19
How the New Deal’s Federal Arts Programs Created a New American History
by Nina Silber
Without government funding, it would have been almost impossible for this alternative narrative to gain much of a foothold in the public imagination.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/6/19
The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think
by Louis Hyman
If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/11/19
Democrats are invoking FDR in their Green New Deal. It’s historically misleading.
by Charles Lane
Politically powerful as the invocation of America’s great collective deeds under Franklin D. Roosevelt might be, however, it is historically misleading — deeply so.
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SOURCE: Atlantic
Accessed 2/1/19
The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government
What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/31/19
What Green New Dealers can learn from the first New Deal
by Eric Rauchway
The hard part of a Green New Deal is not environmental reform. It is social justice.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
12-23-17
Bit by bit, Trump is taking apart the New Deal’s glorious legacy
by Heather Cox Richardson
With huge tax cuts projected to create a $1.5tn deficit, cuts to social security and Medicare will surely follow.
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SOURCE: Moyers & Company
12-7-17
The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal
by Heather Cox Richardson
Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.
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SOURCE: NYT
8-13-17
Making Affirmative Action White Again
by Ira Katznelson
Any decision to reorient the Civil Rights Division would be based on the fiction that we already possess a level playing field.
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SOURCE: Esquire
4-27-16
The Most Successful First 100 Days Of An Administration Didn't Belong To Who You (Or Donald Trump) Think
by Kevin M. Kruse
While FDR's New Deal may have be the gold standard for presidential agenda-setting, Dwight Eisenhower did more in his first hundred days than change laws—he changed a culture.
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4-25-17
Is Trump right that he's signed more executive orders than FDR in his first 100 days?
The answer is no.
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2-27-17
Does It Matter Who the Secretary of Labor Is?
by T.R.C. Hutton
Most of the people who have filled the position, whatever their intentions, have been largely ineffectual with the exception of Frances Perkins, who served the longest, during the New Deal.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
6-20-16
Judith Stein says in an interview that liberals overestimate the racism of the New Deal and misunderstand why the Democratic Party moved right
by Judith Stein
Contrary to today’s liberals, Stein argues that it wasn’t the racism of white workers that forced the Democratic Party to the right on economics. It was powerful political and business elites, who chose to abandon organized labor and turn the Party of Roosevelt into the Party of Clinton.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
3-15-16
America May Never Have Another New Deal
by Jefferson Cowie
Why FDR’s massive reforms probably won’t be repeated.
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SOURCE: Press Release -- FDR Presidential Library and Museum
12-7-15
46,000 pages in the FDR archive digitized
"This is a huge leap forward in the digitization of presidential records and an important new resource for presidential studies."
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SOURCE: werehistory.org
7-1-15
A New Deal for Greece?
by Bill Kelson
Like the Roosevelt administration of the 1930s, Syriza and its coalition partners want to break Greece out of a straightjacket of budgetary constraints.
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7-5-15
75 Years Ago FDR Decided to Break the Two-Term Tradition
by Richard Moe
Two memos, largely ignored by historians, explain why FDR felt comfortable going ahead.
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SOURCE: BillMoyers.com
3-7-14
Remembering Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights
by Harvey J. Kaye
Obama should use FDR's Second Bill of Rights as a blueprint for the rest of his second term.
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