Socialism often gets a bad rap. But socialism seems to match our evolved tendency to organize quite well. And, based on FDR's ...

FDR’s plan to expand the Supreme Court collapsed after one justice unexpectedly changed his vote, preserving the Court’s size ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mehmet Oz, and two Trump administration colleagues recently published an op-ed in The New York Times justifying the GOP’s attempt to cut Medicaid and SNAP benefits by imposing ...

New York City has inked a new nearly $1 billion contract with the hotel industry to provide emergency shelter for homeless ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt ’s New Deal, widely regarded as one of the most successful federal programs in U.S. history, was designed to salvage the country’s economy during the Great ...

The Job Corps program, a key part of LBJ’s Great Society, faces elimination under Trump’s proposed budget, leaving vulnerable youth at risk.

FDR appointed all people close to him who he deemed loyal and supportive of the new Deal. Indeed, Byrne stepped down from the Court to take a position in the administration.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in August of 1935, one of the most enduring programs of his New Deal. Roosevelt later said it was the program of which he was most proud.

The worst of Trump’s attacks on the New Deal is his contempt for America’s most popular domestic program: Social Security. His current protestations that he would protect it are not credible.