Obama Fdr

President Obama has none of the luxuries FDR had and all of the liabilities. One need not speculate about the wrath that he'd incur from millions who passionately believe that he's a closet socialist if he advocated government job programs.

I'd be surprised if Obama doesn't make at least some mention of poverty and the toll it is taking. But the real question is whether he will back it up with an aggressive anti-poverty agenda as FDR did.

Americans love a good fighter. In November, 1934, against the odds and history, Roosevelt's Democrats picked up 9 House and 9 Senate seats. Can Obama do the same today?

It seems as though the president has forgotten one of the key reasons we voted for him -- and he's deprived us of one of his greatest gifts. We need him to talk to us, to reassure us and to challenge us.

In his remarks at Organizing for America's National Health Care Forum on Thursday, President Obama invoked FDR's battle to pass Social Security, clear...

To the people who shrug and say that politicians are all the same, answer with four words: torture and stem cells.

Slate reports that President Obama is considering a series of short televised addresses to respond to economic issues -- taking a cue from Franklin D....

As the financial markets pause at the edge of the abyss, deciding whether to back away, we should take a moment to mull over all the Blame Obama rheto...

If Obama wants to improve wellness for Americans while slimming the deficit before the 2012 elections, he might consider adopting another role model from the New Deal era: Bernarr Macfadden.

Abraham Lincoln may be President Barack Obama's favorite predecessor, but in his early White House days his recipe has been two parts Franklin D. Roos...

As the idea of the New Deal comes back in style, so does opposition to the vision of activist government.

The PWA was Wall Street; the WPA was Main Street. The PWA served to stimulate business; the WPA employed Americans. Both served to boost the economy and rebuild the nation's infrastructure.

As you compose your inaugural address, I fervently hope that you will not pass over the exchange of ideas in the White House between a great president and a great intellectual on the chilly morning of January 14, 1941.

Paul Krugman writes Monday that, no matter what President-elect Obama does, we're in for up to a year of "economic hell" -- and that things will never...

It is one of the ironies of politics and history that when the candidate of change was pondering what he would do if he actually got elected President...