FDR

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• 1/12/20
  

  Do Morals Matter in Foreign Policy?

  by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

  Examining 14 presidencies since 1945 shows that a radically skeptical view of morality is bad history. Morals did matter.

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• 12/15/19
  

  What Joe Biden and Franklin Roosevelt Have in Common

  by James Robenalt

  And how it explains the differences between FDR and Donald Trump. 

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• 12/22/19
  

  Subsidies Can't Solve Farmers' Trade War Losses

  by Jared Levinson

  Subsidies during the Great Depression and in the current trade war. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/4/19
  

  The Wagner Act and Why It's A Liberal President Is Not Sufficient To Create Democratic Change

  by Jamelle Bouie

  And without reform, neither is a Democratic Senate.

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• SOURCE: The Times of Israel
  11/4/19
  

  Rafael Medoff's New Book Suggests new evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans

  In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president’s anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler.

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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: Politifact
  10/16/19
  

  Fact-checking Andrew Yang on history of universal basic income

  Andrew Yang says giving adult $1,000 a month is a "deeply American idea" dating back centuries.

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• SOURCE: Contingent Magazine
  8/23/19
  

  No Refuge: Frances Perkins, the Labor Department, and Immigration

  by Rebecca Brenner Graham

  When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.

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• 8/4/19
  

  FDR's Token Jewish Refugee Shelter

  by Rafael Medoff

  Granting temporary refuge was a way of addressing the life-and-death crisis that Europe’s Jews faced, without incurring the wrath of those who opposed permanent immigration.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  7/9/19
  

  Roosevelt versus the refugees: One FDR policy that Bernie Sanders never mentions

  by Rafael Medoff

  Sanders favors a much more liberal U.S. immigration policy. Not Roosevelt. In fact, FDR’s immigration policy was so strict that if Sanders’s father, Eli, had not arrived from Poland before Roosevelt became president, he probably would not have been admitted.

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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: FDR Foundation
  Accessed 5/15/19
  

  The End of History? FDR, Trump and the Fake Past

  by Cynthia Koch

  Trump is thinking more about history than we imagine and he is doing so in a way very different from former presidents.

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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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• 6/9/19
  

  What We Can't Forget As We Remember Anne Frank

  by Rafael Medoff

  Today would have been her 90th Birthday. Here's how FDR could have done more to save Holocaust victims like her. 

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• 4/28/19
  

  Why FDR Wouldn't Condemn Hitler

  by Rafael Medoff

  A few words from the White House directly taking issue with Hitler’s aggressive actions and persecution of the Jews could have helped alert the public to the Nazi danger. 

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• 3/24/19
  

  Political Leadership and the Need for a New American Story

  by Walter G. Moss

  Both Lincoln and FDR understood that to reach people, to motivate them, to win them over, a president had to appeal to their emotions, and storytelling was one way of doing so.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/19
  

  FDR’s court-packing scheme was a ‘humiliating’ defeat

  Yet the idea has been revived by some of the liberals seeking the presidency.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/19
  

  How presidential empathy can improve politics

  by Jeremi Suri

  The legacy of FDR and his fireside chats. 

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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: Politico Magazine
  2/24/19
  

  The Lost History of FDR's Court Packing Scandal

  Some Democrats are talking about adding justices to the bench. But the revelations show almost no one understands what really happened back in the 1930s.