The phrase "new deal" came into the English lexicon long before its mention at the 1932 Democratic convention that propelled Franklin D. Roosevelt to the White House. Mark Twain and Henry James ...

New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America--by Burton W. Folsom Jr. (Threshold Editions, $27).

Advantages for Biden, because the New Deal remains the repository of cherished Democratic Party values and progressive achievement even today, eight decades after FDR’s inauguration.

FDR and The New Deal During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired.

My seventh-grade son recently wrote a U.S. History paper extolling the virtues of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. “It ended the Great Depression,” he wrote with great certainty. He ...

Seventy-five years ago, FDR began the New Deal. What was truly new - in fact revolutionary - was his conviction that the federal government had a direct responsibility to create jobs, and to pay ...

IN 1932, in deepest slump, American voters threw out their president and elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt. With 12m out of work, enter the New Deal. Its kingpins were four: • Deficit spending ...

FDR’s New Deal transformed the economy. ... When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first inaugurated as president in 1933, he was facing “a nation on the brink,” said Jason Scott Smith, ...

The inspiration behind the Green New Deal 12:11. A historian believes the backlash provoked by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 's Green New Deal bears resemblance to the opposition President ...

Also thanks to the New Deal, nearly 220 million trees were planted by the 1940s and about 9 out of 10 farms had electricity by 1945, according to the Roosevelt Institute.

What were styled in the Nov. 6 Letters to the Editor as "Tough Questions for Defenders of the New Deal" (in response to my Oct. 29 editorial-page essay "Capitalism's Savior") are not so difficult ...