In her words, Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet secretary, ‘came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common workingmen.’
FDR
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Ferdinand Pecora: The Greatest Senate Investigator Ever
How Sicilian immigrant Ferdinand Pecora upended the rule of the bankers and ushered in FDR’s radical reforms of capitalism
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Requiem for the Wagner Act
Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.
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We Never Had Free Trade
The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main culprits are the American capitalists who devised the system, not foreigners.
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The Abundance Option
Fifteen years ago, I wrote that Democrats couldn’t build things anymore, and that Dems needed to better balance regulation with production.
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The Man Madison Warned Us Against
He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.
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How Democrats Can Regain the Working Class
It’s time to go after the nation’s real elite—not the Republicans’ largely fictitious one.
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Why So Much Hate?
Today on TAP: Trump has tapped into an undercurrent of crude hatred and encouraged his supporters to express it. Where does all this hate come from?
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The Joyful Warrior and the Happy Warrior
The new and improved Democrats sound like some very old and very good Democrats of long ago.