FDR

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• SOURCE: Yale University Press Blog
  5/29/2020
  

  Fake News, Then and Now

  by Tracy Campbell

  Rumor and gossip during World War II reflected currents of racism in American society, as well as many citizens' unwillingness to make deep sacrifices to the war effort. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  5/27/2020
  

  What We Learn From FDR's New Deal

  "A president alone can't do everything," says historian Lizabeth Cohen, "that president needs a supportive Congress."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/15/2020
  

  If Trump had Been in Charge during World War II, this Column would be in German

  by Max Boot

  What if FDR had speculated that mobilization might be unnecessary if we can develop a “death ray” straight out of a Buck Rogers comic strip?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/30/2020
  

  The Country has been Through a Draining, News-Packed April Before

  by Christopher B. Daly

  By the end of April 1945, the institutions of American journalism generally met the challenges of an overwhelming torrent of news and helped other American institutions manage military, political and economic transition.

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• 4/12/2020
  

  The President vs. The Epidemic: FDR's Polio Crusade

  by Dave Welky

  No president can end an epidemic single handedly, but they can inspire a popular movement that eradicates a disease. Such was the case with Franklin Roosevelt and polio.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  New Deal or Nazism? Historical Comparisons to Trump's Performance as a Leader in Crisis

  by Walter G. Moss

  Comparing the first 100 days in power of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler offers a sobering reminder of the consequences of decisions pursued by leaders in crisis. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/30/2020
  

  The Conservative Campaign Against Safety

  by Lawrence Glickman

  How did we get to the point where ministers, the president, many Republican politicians, and a variety of media outlets are calling for people to risk death to save the economy?

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• SOURCE: National Interest
  3/31/2020
  

  America Has a History of Pandemic Denial

  by Joseph Loconte

  Donald Trump wasn't the first president to misunderestimate a national threat. Franklin Roosevelt played his part in the collective denial and dishonesty of the age—until the "ideology of fascism" contagion came knocking.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/30/2020
  

  In Fighting Covid-19, Remember That America’s WWII Mobilization Was Hardly Flawless

  by Richard B. Frank

  Mobilizing all Americans is a lofty challenge. Some will resist, just as they did 80 years ago.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/12/2020
  

  How the Fireside Chat Provided a Model for Calming the Nation that President Trump Failed to Follow

  by Michael J. Socolow

  Without respecting the Presidential message to the nation as a structured format, Trump's address failed to achieve its mission of clearly informing, and calming, the anxious nation.

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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.