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What history should you read about the New Deal to inform the present moment?With the caveat that I *will* forget something, so forgive me now: I would skew toward more

For people interested in a good faith, as it were, debate, let me say a few thingshttps://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1254786653329125379 First of all, if there's a paper (or op ed citing an underlying

If you think the Hundred Days was a period when FDR "pushed through law after law" and Biden's unpopularity among Republicans means he's not like FDR, you could learn some

So here are some Warm Springs notes … Five years after contracting polio and going to Warm Springs to convalesce, Roosevelt bought a property there as a community for people

The Kenosha shooter, about whom everyone has an opinion, shot actual people on whom we might focus for a minute. Gaige Grosskreutz, who it seems won't die and will probably

Readers of this feed may know that I believe Roosevelt campaigned on the New Deal in 1932—contrary to a widespread impression he did not. George Selgin of Cato says "Rauchway

Let's remember specifically that MacArthur disobeyed an order to stand down.https://twitter.com/kairyssdal/status/1266769231309189128 It's one of the non-Roosevelt related grudges Hoover carried after his presidency, that his reputa

As @dkarol says there are differences between the current reaction to an invisible, impersonal enemy and that of the Hoover administration, but there are some similarities …https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1260554398545084416 Early on, Hoover

The Roosevelt administration tried to federalize voting in 1944 The United States had about 9.2m service personnel of voting age that year, dispersed all over the world Once, the US