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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 ...

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 ...

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

The idea that summer is a slow time for news proved faulty once again in 2024, judging by the reporting in the Chronicle’s ...

President Jimmy Carter’s legacy includes a shelf of over 30 books that he wrote over the course of his long life. Carter, who ...

Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters ...

In his remarks at the Minnesota State Fair on Sept. 2, 1901, Vice President Teddy Roosevelt gave his famous “speak softly but ...

Franklin Roosevelt, when accepting the nomination of his party, had said, “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” President Herbert Hoover gamely campaigned for ...

But the transition process unofficially starts back in November, as soon as the major news networks declare a winner in the ...

The 39th U.S. president led the fight to preserve vast swaths of Alaskan wilderness. It forever changed the state and the ...