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Joe Biden Just Wants to Make the U.S. a Normal Country That Isn’t Horrible for Parents Slate 4/28/2021 Jordan Weissmann © Provided by Slate Smile, we can have a bare-minimum family policy after all. Drew Angerer/Getty Images By the end of August 1935, Franklin Roosevelt was wrapping up a remarkable stretch of legislative victories, a follow-up chapter to his initial response to the Great Depression that historians would one day call the Second New Deal. Its centerpiece wa...

Yves here. While this article has a lot to recommend it, I have to voice some reservations. The first is that it jumps on the “Biden as FDR” bandwagon, which Lambert debunked yesterday. The second is the New Deal brand expropriation by Green New Deal advocates. As we’ve stressed repeatedly, the Green New Deal proponents will not acknowledge, let alone promote, far and aways the most important and urgent measures we can take to combat climate change: radical conservation. They aren’t eve...

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 12: Fear Itself SHARE "This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. …[T]he only thing we have to fear is fear itself." —FDR, in his first inaugural address. "There is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain." —Thomas Hobbes, on the state of nature, in Leviathan. Not the Sum of its Parts So far, Ive tended to look at the New Deal as a set or sequence of distinct government policies and programs,...

La crescita delleconomia britannica avrebbe fortemente rallentato nel mese di ottobre, aumentando solo dello 0,4 per cento. Secondo nuovi...