100 days

Time to Recall a Progressive ‘Truly Great’ First 100 Days

by Harvey J. Kaye

The Resistance needs to develop a memory of how past generations confronted reactionary threats to American democracy.

What Historians Are Saying on Social Media About Trump's First 100 Days

Annette Gordon Reed, Max Boot, Simon Schama, Ron Radosh, David Greenberg, and more. 

Are Trump voters ruining America for all of us?

by Tom Nichols

First 100 days suggest our democracy is more likely to die in dumbness than in darkness.

What’s Impressive About Trump’s First 100 Days Is the Opposition He’s Inspired

by John Dickson

When FDR set the standard for 100 days of accomplishment, he did so in the face of an acute crisis. The crisis facing the country now is the president’s doing.

How Trump’s first 100 days compares to past presidencies

by Barbara Perry and Michael Beschloss

An interview on PBS.

Is Trump right that he's signed more executive orders than FDR in his first 100 days?

The answer is no. 

Why President Trump is probably right about the ‘ridiculous standard’ of the first 100 days

In his third radio address to the people, Franklin D. Roosevelt talked about the achievements of his young presidency — the first 100 days “devoted to the starting of the wheels of the New Deal.” Since then, the idea of the “first 100 days” has taken on a life of its own.

Trump’s Hundred Days Are a Disappointment

by Kathryn Smith

No one expected him to approach FDR’s record, but his debut has been stunningly mediocre.

What Conservative Historians Are Saying about Trump's First 100 Days

by Charles Dewey

We asked: Victor Davis Hanson, Daniel Pipes, Robert Merry, Brad Birzer, Paul Gottfried, and Larry Schweikart.

Trump and the history of the ‘first 100 days’

by Robert Speel

The truth is not all recent presidents have much to brag about when it comes to the impact of their first months in office.

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.