Dec 11th, 2008 · Barack Obama's plan to invest in the country's infrastructure harkens back to the New Deal. Writer and longtime journalist Mark Pinsky suggests in his article on The New Republic's Web site that Obama take his plan one step further and create a new Federal Writers Project.
Oct 21st, 2008 · Nobel laureate Paul Krugman believes that increased public spending — akin to the efforts of the New Deal during the Great Depression — is the best way to escape the financial crisis and regain American global leadership.
Mar 4th, 2008 · Franklin Delano Roosevelt began his presidency 75 years ago today. It was in the depths of the Great Depression. During his first 100 days in office, Congress passed much of Roosevelt's initiatives and programs known as the New Deal. Donald Ritchie, author of Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932, speaks with NPR's Renee Montagne.
Oct 9th, 2007 · In his book, The Conscience of a Liberal, economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman examines how political polarization has driven growth in income inequality in the United States. His prescription: a new New Deal.
Apr 28th, 2007 · David Ginsburg, 95, retired Friday after seven decades of service in Washington. Ginsburg arrived in the capital in 1935, an idealistic young lawyer passionate about the possibilities of government. He worked on Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and, later, was executive director of the Kerner Commission on race riots. Ginsburg says the decades haven't dimmed his enthusiasm.
Sep 5th, 2006 · I.F. Stone was an icon of investigative reporting, covering subjects from the New Deal to Hitler's Germany, the birth of Israel and the Vietnam War. Biographer Myra MacPherson remembers a great journalist.
Sep 18th, 2005 · Is the proposed Gulf Opportunity Zone another New Deal? No, says Steven M. Gillon, author of The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945. Gillon tells Debbie Elliott Americans still oppose central power.