How four men and one woman, with very different backgrounds and views, shaped the New Deal.
Lizabeth Cohen
Lizabeth Cohen, chair of the history department at Harvard University, is the author of Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 and A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America.
Voting Alone
Alan Brinkley has done an admirable job thinking through why George W. Bush won. I particularly agree with his analysis of the damaged state of the Democratic Party’s infrastructure and aim here to deepen our understanding of what needs fixing. Let me start with myself as one type of Kerry supporter to illustrate the problem. […]

