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The start of the New Year is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ushered in the era of big government. Massive deficits, taxes that punish the most productive and government intrusion into every area of life are legacies of the New Deal. Mr. Trump ...

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 ...