New Deal

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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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• 12-2-13
  

  How the New Deal Defines the Debate Over Obamacare

  by David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd

  Lessons from Messrs. Roosevelt and Hoover.