Whether or not the increase in government spending as a percent of GDP is good or bad is a judgment call and is an issue that is still hotly debated today. In my opinion it was warranted.
Rob Riemen | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
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.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 02.02.2009 | Business
In 1934 and 1936, the GOP made many of the same arguments against the New Deal that the right-wing echo chamber is parroting now. The electorate's verdict was overwhelming.
Page Gardner | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics
Just as FDR's New Deal boldly confronted the challenges of its times, we need a newer deal to help Obama's changing America, with 53 million "women on their own," to recover from this recession.
Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics
Let's start with what everyone can agree on. There was a Great Depression, then the New Deal, then World War II. Also, that America emerged from tha...
CBS News | Chip Reid | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics
Anxiety and fear surround workers this holiday season. Last month, half a million people lost their jobs ... more than 2 million have since last Decem...
Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
Anthony Badger's FDR: The First Hundred Days reveals the truth behind the myths circulating in Washington about whether a president can undertake major initiatives during a crisis.
Ira Chernus | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
No one should be surprised that Obama said he's reading about Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days in office. But the President-elect may be reading the wrong history.
James K. Galbraith | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
The economists of the Johnson era, notably my father and Walt Rostow, understood that the fortunes of the U.S. cannot be disentangled from the progress of the developing world. In the years since, we have forgotten.
Thomas Dobbs | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
In building 'green' infrastructure, Obama should abandon the misguided federal mandates and subsidies for ethanol and focus on infrastructure for renewable energy sources.
Laurence Leamer | Posted 01.03.2009 | Style
Within the economic elite, there is inchoate anger, great fear, and a willful distancing from the great new American drama that is about to begin in Washington.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
Obama may well assume a fairly radical solution to the economic problems facing the nation, one that eclipses the craziest notions dreamt up by the progressive fringe.
Bill Scher | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Do conservatives want their spawn to be carping 75 years from now that public investment didn't create a clean energy economy, didn't establish high-speed rail, and didn't lift our economy out of the ditch?
Donald Cohen | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has the chance to create an impressive and paradigm-shifting package of legislation and new public programs. People voted for change. Now let's do it.
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
On ABC's This Week, conservative pundit George Will took up the case against Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, arguing that it sent confusing signals to ...
Paige Donner | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green
Walker agreed to this interview while attending the Opportunity Green Conference held this past weekend on UCLA's campus. Media coordination provided by eConnectGroup.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
He did the strangest thing last night: He turned the TV off. There he was, still in the early part of the evening, with another hour or two of pol...
Giles Slade | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
Across the nation, the most vulnerable have already been stripped of their security. They are wildly adrift in the economic chaos like autumn leaves caught in a hurricane.
David Sirota | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media
It seems the demands for accepting the progressive mandate of the election, Going Big and emulating FDR -- are starting to be echoed even in the elite media stratosphere.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
When the second economic stimulus package is passed, the President should suggest that, as an act of loyalty to country, those planning to use this gift as down payment for a car, Buy American.
William Galston | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
On the critical issue of government's role, Democrats do not have a mandate. Rather, they have a chance to make their case.
Aaron Greenspan | Posted 12.10.2008 | Business
If we were to start employing Americans for much-needed technology initiatives, not just those companies who can afford to send lobbyists to Washington, our economy would be in much better shape.
Norman Solomon | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business
Barack Obama won the presidency after clearly saying that he wants to spread the wealth. Let's make him do it.
Matthew Stein | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green
It has been estimated that we could fund the changes necessary to turn our world around by shifting just 1/6th of the world's military budget into programs that support energy efficiency.
The Nation | Van Jones | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green
In the New Deal period, it was a broad electoral coalition that moved the government onto the side of ordinary people, not FDR alone. Farmers, workers...
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 02.05.2009 | Business