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Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and was a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt's ...

A Catch-22 of politics is the fact that once you start governing and making decisions, you’re almost guaranteed to alienate ...

Seemingly permanent Republican control of one branch of government and Democratic control of another often leads to ...

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State, historian Anthony Gregory emphasizes how an earlier president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, built up policing ...

After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

New Year's Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is RealClearPolitics analyst Sean Trende's 2012 book "The Lost Majority," whose ...

The NRA was one of the early cornerstones of Roosevelt’s New Deal, aimed at alleviating the economic effects of the Great Depression and putting people back to work. The Depression was four ...

Roosevelt’s campaign introduced Americans to the New Deal that would become his signature government reform, one promising that government policies would help Americans emerge from the economic ...

Roosevelt's New Deal programs after the Great Depression. Perkins is “one of America’s greatest labor leaders, and that’s not hyperbole,” Biden said. Perkins “cemented the idea” that ...