As the Trump administration is set to cross the 100-day mark, here's a look at how we came to judge new presidents.

During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt created a tree army. Civilians planted trees, built dams, and transformed ...

If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in office is the model for presidents who want to get things done.

But just last year, when the Supreme Court overturned a Reagan-era decision requiring federal judges to defer to bureaucratic expertise, progressives were singing a different tune. They were aghast at ...

Descendants of FDR and others reflect on the unfinished business of the New Deal, Roosevelt's program to pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression, as the Trump administration slashes the government.

Everything Johnson did in his Great Society misadventure was haunted by comparisons to the New Deal. What none of Roosevelt’s would-be imitators among his Democratic heirs ever seriously ...

Donald Trump’s trade policies couldn’t be more different from FDR’s labour-friendly efforts to open up America to the world ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia at his Little White House. On Saturday, the 80th anniversary, people gathered to pay tribute.

The struggle to maintain the Constitution of the United States is an unending one. The battle is always on, although the fact be little appreciated,” wrote James M. Beck. Beck ...

In 1932, when civilization stood at another fork in the road, the United States chose liberal democracy, and Franklin Roosevelt, who promised “a new deal for the American people.” In his first ...