FDR calmed and unified the country; Trump has terrified and further divided us.
FDR
Posted inBooks
Why We Need a New Tennessee Valley Authority
In the 1930s, public power agencies like the TVA forced private utilities to electrify rural America. Today, the same strategy can challenge the investor-owned electric utilities that are blocking the spread of renewable energy.
Posted inBooks
The Long Shadow of Robert Moses
How popular blowback to the New York City planner’s excesses led to generations of distrust in government.
Posted inPolitics
As Ukraine Fights, Echoes of Historic Meetings in Yalta and Helsinki Abound
Some 80 years ago, Roosevelt and Churchill were at their meeting with Stalin. Thirty years later, the Helsinki Accords helped doom the Iron Curtain. Here’s what we can learn on their anniversaries.
Posted inPolitics
The Washington Monthly Newsletter: November 14, 2023
“A short history of Democratic pre-election bed-wetting” and the latest from the Washington Monthly website.
Posted inNovember/December 2023
Give ‘Em Hell, Joe
President Biden has been compared, and has compared himself, to FDR. But the real similarity is to Harry S. Truman.
Posted inMain, Political Animal
There Are No Perfect Political Alliances
Concern about suburban Democrats’ influence on the party is overblown.
