Tag: American political history

It’s time for my generation to get out of the way and let the kids take over. The kids are ...

There’s a complex dance going on right now, between business activists who have found themselves thrown into the Democratic coalition, ...

Any new set of political assumptions is born against a high political tide. It takes a crisis to change men's ...

The belief, on Wall Street, K Street and in oil industry boardrooms, is that “the people” can be made to ...

There are millions of moderate and liberal Democrats, even millions of moderate Republicans and independents, crying out to be led ...

Barack Obama has no choice. He must play this hand by Nixon's rules. You can't impose new rules until you've ...

Our nature has devils in it as well as angels -- primogeniture, racism, class war, fear, arrogance, and ignorance. By ...

And so, at Christmas Time, we hold our breath as our forefathers did, in their suburbs, their Hoovervilles, on their ...

Today's Democratic Party is coalescing around Hillary Clinton for the very same reasons Republicans rallied to Nixon. They fear standing ...

Here's a good example, the 1999 book FDR and His Enemies, by Arthur Fried. Written in 1999, it's the best ...