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Obama's and America's Remarkable Evolution on Gay Rights

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Don't Ask/Don't Tell, Gay Rights, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, Pew Research Center, Gallup Poll, Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt, David Ciciline, Harvey Milk, Barack Obama, Jared Polis, Same-Sex Marriage, National Labor Relations Act, Obama Same-Sex Marriage, Obama Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Voices News
Peter Dreier

Historians will no doubt view President Obama's announcement favoring same-sex marriage as an historic statement, parallel to those of FDR on workers' rights and LBJ on civil rights. But like FDR and LBJ, Obama's endorsement was due to a combination of personal belief and political opportunity.

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Fixing Gross Inequality Is Not Socialism

Curtis Roosevelt | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Banking Crisis, Fdr, Social Security, Obama Socialist, New Deal, Income Inequality, Socialism, Franklin Roosevelt, Politics News
Curtis Roosevelt

Democrats are again in an excellent position to take a risk like FDR took with the New Deal. They might give themselves some identity other than that of modest centrists, constantly worried about offending one constituency or another.

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The Assault on Civil Liberties Continues

Allan Brawley | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Barak Obama, Civil Liberties, Bill of Rights, Lusk Committee, Joseph McCarthy, Palmer-Raids, National Security, Franklin Roosevelt, Japanese Internment, Nypd Antiterror, Woodrow Wilson, War on Terrorism, Politics News
Allan Brawley

Assaults on our constitutional protections are not new. They have been a recurring phenomenon for at least the last hundred years.

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Basic Scientific Research and Its Transformational Potential

James M. Gentile | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Basic Scientific Research, Randy Hultgren, Solar Energy Conversion, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Harry Truman, Job Growth, Frederick Gardner Cottrell, Smithsonian, Robert Goddard, Franklin Roosevelt, High-Risk High-Reward, Applied Science, Fox Chicago Sunday, National Science Foundation, Nobel Prize, National Air and Space Museum, Foundation, Fermilab, Basic Science, Early Career Scientists, Ipad, Ernest O. Lawrence, Green Technology, Google, Sun-Orbital S, Science News
James M. Gentile

As our nation's leadership in scientific and technological innovation is challenged as never before, federal funding of basic scientific research remains essential, but that research should be potentially transformational.

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Elizabeth Warren Will Lead

Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, Fair Wages, Workers, Elizabeth Warren, Scott Brown, Jobs, Fair Deal, Integrity, Teddy Roosevelt, Joblesssness, 99 Percent, Margaret Thatcher, Economic Equity, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edward Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy, Consumers, Help the Poor, Franklin Roosevelt, Homes Veterans, Massachusetts Senate Race, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

In a Washington full of revolving-door sellouts who effortlessly glide between special-interest sinecures and government jobs earning personal fortunes on the payroll of the 1 percent, Elizabeth Warren will never sell her public conscience for private wealth.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Socialist or "Champion of Freedom"?

David Woolner | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Socialism, Franklin Roosevelt, New Deal, Safety Net, Barack Obama, Social Safety Nets, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Economic Crisis, Politics News
David Woolner

For Roosevelt, government intervention in the economy was not about destroying individual liberty; it was about restoring individual liberty. This is a good reminder for President Obama.

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C-SPAN Is America

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Woodward and Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, Walter Cronkite, Paul Fahri, Newton Minnow, Vast Wasteland, Civil War, New Deal, Ronald Reagan, Book Tv, C-Span, Ernest Hemingway, Democracy, Televising the Supreme Court, Free Press, Brian Lamb, George Washington, Citizens United, Abraham Lincoln, Rob Kennedy, Edward R. Murrow, Susan Swain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John F. Kennedy, Freedom, Supreme Court, News Cycle, Informed Citizenry, Katharine Graham, Ted Turner, Franklin Roosevelt, Media News
Brent Budowsky

While our politics have become a shouting match of pander and slander, name-calling and talking points, celebrity media and instant misanalysis, C-SPAN shines as an exemplar of what a free press in a free nation should be.

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Mike Sacks

Why Supreme Court Conservative Majority Doesn't Mean Health Reform Smackdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Supreme Court Obamacare, Marijuana, New Deal, Interstate Commerce, Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Health Care, Individual Mandate, Obama, Laurence Silberman, Franklin Roosevelt, Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Video, Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Supreme-Court-Health-Care-Cases-Oral-Argument, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court Health Reform, Healthcare Reform, Anthony Kennedy, Health Care, Politics News

The Supreme Court will not overturn health care reform. At least if the five-justice conservative majority that brought the country Citizens United an...

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Many Are Like Romney -- 'Not Concerned' About Very Poor

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Gop, Medicare, Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt, Newt Gingrich, Pell Grants, Poverty, Mitt Romney Poor, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Very Poor, Mitt Romney Poor People, Politics News
Rev. Jesse Jackson

We need targeted intervention by our federal government to provide jobs for our people -- an FDR-like program that hires our youth, our returning soldiers, our chronically unemployed.

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130 Years After His Birth, We Still Live in FDR's World

David Woolner | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Jobs, Unemployment, Franklin Roosevelt, Economics, National Security, Unions, New Deal, Fdr, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Business News
David Woolner

There comes a time in the life of every people when the only way to take on the forces of "economic tyranny" -- whose callous behavior has twice in the past century nearly brought our country to ruin -- is to turn to "the organized power of government."

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Ben Hallman

Mitt Romney's Tax Returns Offer Clues To His Character

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, Mitt Romney Taxes, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, 2012 Election, Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney 2012, Tax Returns, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney Tax Returns, Joe Biden, Franklin Roosevelt, Deductions, Barack Obama, Business News

The tax returns of prominent officeholders are scrutinized not just for details about the individuals' financial lives, but for clues about their char...

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The "State" of the Union? How About a "Vision" Instead?

Todd Brewster | Posted 03.24.2012

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Todd Brewster

Why should the one moment each year when the president has the attention of the Congress and the rest of the nation be squandered on trivialities and partisan chest-thumping?

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FDR Gets A New Badass Side In Wild New Flick

Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Video, FDR: American Badass, Fdr, Franklin Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Movies, Barry Bostwick, Entertainment News

President Franklin Roosevelt wasn't just commander-in-chief of the American forces that defeated the Nazis; he also track them down and shot their fac...

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Working With Roosevelt

Frank A. Weil | Posted 03.06.2012

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Frank A. Weil

In an effort to learn more about the magic of presidential power and style, I came across a book which deserves real attention again, more than 50 years after it was published. Working with Roosevelt is an intimate and granular retelling of FDR's skills, methods and inside life.

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Christina Wilkie

GOP Candidate Has VERY Prestigious Pedigree

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 12.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- When your dad is the former governor of Michigan, and your mom was a Senate candidate, you might expect that presidential lineage comes ...

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What Was Missing in Kansas: the Greatest Generation's Political Power

Harvey J. Kaye | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Theodore Roosevelt, Greatest Generation, World War II, Recession, Franklin Roosevelt, Obama Osawatomie, Obama Kansas, Obama Kansas Speech, Obama Teddy Roosevelt Speech, Obama Teddy Roosevelt, Great Depression, Fifty News
Harvey J. Kaye

The men and women who saved the nation from economic destruction and political tyranny, and went on to create the middle class and turn the United States into the strongest and most prosperous nation on earth, didn't do so simply by having the right values and working hard to achieve them.

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A Huffington Post Guide To Family Vacations In New York

The Huffington Post | Megan Farrell Fuchsloch | Posted 12.20.2011

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Family vacations in New York can be rewarding experiences or absolute disasters -- it all depends on pre-trip homework. To make planning easier, we've...

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A Feast for the 1%, a Famine for the One Third

David Woolner | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Franklin Roosevelt, Poverty, Great Recession, Thanksgiving, Great Depression, Politics News
David Woolner

The fact that one in three Americans now lives in poverty or just above the poverty line provides us with another distressing link between the Great Recession and the Great Depression.

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Should a President Be Intelligent?

Gary Hart | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Intelligence, Franklin Roosevelt, Presidential Candidates, Republican Primary Candidates, Barack Obama, Herman Cain, Politics News
Gary Hart

Neither Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, nor John Kennedy were intellectual giants. But the keenness of their respective minds was revealed every day. And they were not threatened by smart people around them.

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Why America Needs a One-Term President

Donald Craig Mitchell | Posted 01.17.2012

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Donald Craig Mitchell

Is a six-year presidential term the solution to every problem that vexes the nation? Of course not. But is it a constitutional reform that merits serious public discussion? Absolutely.

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Victory! Transforming Occupy Wall Street From a Moment to a Movement

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Alliance of Californians for Communty Empowerment, Frances Perkins, Steve Mnuchin, Occupy La, Service Employees International Union, Fannie Mae, Ben Bernanke, Bernie Sanders, Occupy Wall Street, Acce, Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, OneWest Bank, Rose Gudiel, Seiu, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Is the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon a moment of protest or a movement for sustained change? Will Rose Gudiel become the Rosa Parks of a new economic justice movement?

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Jacqueline Kennedy's Memories of John F. Kennedy Are Riveting as History -- and as Therapy

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Charles De Gaulle, Lady Bird Jognson, Martin Luther King, Joseph Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, Franklin Roosevelt, Indira Gandh, Caroline Kennedy, Books We Love, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

Whatever love meant for them, Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy did love one another. In death, she gave him the greatest gift a widow can -- she created a legend, Camelot. We know better. And yet the legend endures.

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Boehner Admits to 'Capital Strike'

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Amity Shlaes, Recession of 1937, Franklin Roosevelt, New Deal, John Boehner, Capital Strike, Great Recession, Capital Strike John Boehner, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

The veil has finally been removed and the political representatives of corporate interests are letting everyone see where they are coming from and who they are serving.

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Roosevelt Explains It All to You, and to Obama

Jonathan Schmock | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Class War, New Deal, Speculation, Labor, Banking, Hatred, Big Money, Franklin Roosevelt, Democrats, Conservativism, Roosevelt, Presidential Candidates, Republicans, Politics News
Jonathan Schmock

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How I Became a New York Celebrity 75 Years Ago

Al Eisele | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Walter Winchell, New York Times, Franklin Roosevelt, Waldorf Astoria, Fiorello LaGuardia, Jazz Age, Rural Journalism, Susan Frawley Eisele, Journalism, New York News
Al Eisele

Seventy-five years ago, my mother found herself a celebrity after being named the nation's best rural correspondent of 1936. Her star treatment is chronicled in yellowed clippings from the New York newspapers.

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