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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 ...

Make no mistake what President-elect Trump is doing is negotiating a new treaty for the Panama Canal and hence, a better deal ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For many years, I have been a political independent, studying candidates for each office and voting for the one I believe is ...

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 ...

As labor secretary, Perkins helped President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulate policies behind the 1930s New Deal and create ...