Franklin Delano Roosevelt

That sound you hear is the social fabric about to snap That sound you hear is the social fabric about to snap

The real unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. Here's what the federal government can do about the jobs crisis
By Michael Lind Oct 19, 2009

  • How Obama can succeed in the next 100 days and beyond

    His first 100 days has been a sprint. But the success of his second 100 days -- and his presidency -- hinges on a series of tough decisions.
    By Robert Reich April 27, 2009

  • Obama's timid liberalism

    Once, even Republican presidents like Eisenhower and Nixon believed in the public sector. Now, during a national crisis, a Democrat opts for inadequate, neoliberal, private-sector remedies. What happened?
    By Michael Lind March 6, 2009

  • Papa got a job with the TVA

    Former RNC chair Mike Duncan quits bashing the nanny state, becomes the nanny state.
    By Gabriel Winant February 12, 2009

  • Great achievements in American socialism

    A slide show of two dozen excellent things the federal government bought with your money.
    By Mark Schone February 6, 2009

  • No more "wars of choice"

    If the Democrats will stop trying to out-hawk the Republicans, the Obama administration can begin rebuilding America's economy and military -- and international image.
    By Michael Lind January 22, 2009

  • An economic Bill of Rights for Americans

    We need a new citizen-based Social Contract that would deliver universal healthcare and paid family leave.
    By Michael Lind January 21, 2009

  • The Next American System

    We need a New Contract with the American people, starting with a sweeping program of modernization that echoes Lincoln and FDR.
    By Michael Lind January 20, 2009

  • What can Obama learn from FDR's first 100 days?

    The author of "Nothing to Fear" talks about the striking parallels -- and differences -- between the president-elect and another who took office at a time of economic meltdown.
    By Mark Schone January 13, 2009

  • FDR's bold brain trust versus Obama's timid wonks

    Roosevelt came into office with a brain trust ready to enact change. Are Obama's brainiacs up to that task -- or are they too beholden to the Clintonian, neoliberal past?
    By Steve Fraser December 3, 2008

  • Rescue schools and hospitals first, then build light rail

    New infrastructure will become so many bridges to nowhere unless Obama saves human-needs budgets and public-sector jobs.
    By Mike Davis November 21, 2008

  • The Great Depression: The sequel

    Is it coming to a soup kitchen near you? Here's how we'll know if the current recession is turning into something much worse.
    By Andrew Leonard April 2, 2008

  • "We're all fascists now"

    An interview with conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg, who argues that fascism is left-wing, not right-wing, and that contemporary liberals are fascism's intellectual offspring.
    By Alex Koppelman January 11, 2008

  • Four poor years?

    Bush backers boast that his victory gives him a chance to join the greats. But most reelected presidents have been far less effective in their second term than in their first.
    By Ted Widmer November 12, 2004

  • FDR's unfinished revolution

    No matter who wins in November, author Cass Sunstein says, the country has moved far from Roosevelt's vision of a second Bill of Rights -- and a brand of liberalism that is no longer in fashion.
    By Tim Grieve June 25, 2004

  • Stealing FDR's dime

    Dismissing FDR as simply a "liberal icon" who must be replaced by Reagan on the dime diminishes both presidents -- as Nancy Reagan clearly knows.
    By Robert Scheer December 10, 2003

  • Dive-bombing FDR

    With the release of "Pearl Harbor," conspiracy theorists have resurrected the canard that Roosevelt had advance warning of the attack.
    By Judith Greer June 14, 2001

  • Body count

    In his controversial -- and frightening -- new bestseller, Pat Buchanan argues for a mighty America built upon the corpses of the weak.
    By Charles Taylor October 22, 1999

  • Dr. Laura: 20th century fraud?

    Greatest phonies of last hundred years; Newt no candidate for sainthood; Lucianne Goldberg likens Starr to a lounging lizard.
    By Amy Reiter September 1, 1999

  • Making History

    Clinton's moment of truth
    By Fred Branfman October 14, 1996

  • Lazarus, arise and walk!

    Liberals' night of the living dead is over
    By Andrew Ross February 24, 1996
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