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 ...

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My guide here is RealClearPolitics analyst Sean Trende's 2012 book "The Lost Majority," which has been ignored by political ...

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 ...

His landmark domestic accomplishments are comparable to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. A 2023 survey of 154 political scientists and other presidential ...

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

During her 12 years as labor secretary, Perkins was pivotal in bringing about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal reforms that helped the country emerge from the Great Depression — and ...

The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York on March 25, 1911, still stands as one of the most devastating ...

President Joe Biden has established a national monument in Newcastle, Maine, to Frances Perkins, the first woman member of a ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt had many Christmas traditions he took part in with his family and White House staff during his time in office. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, a place he ...

named after the first woman to be Secretary of Labor under President Franklin Roosevelt. The new law also prohibits employers from firing or retaliating against any employee or applicant who asks ...