As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.
The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism
Katy Hull
On the eve of the November 1938 midterm elections, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered a forceful radio address. “If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens,” he remarked, “then Fascism and Communism . . . will grow in strength in our land.” While opposition to communism was a standard current in U.S. politics, the rise of American sympathy with fascism had become an urgent concern for Roosevelt. Among the most visible sympathizers of the time was the anti-Semitic radio broadcaster Charles Coughlin, who regularly reached tens of millions of listeners, but Roosevelt and his administration knew fascist sympathy was diffuse among prominent Americans. From Henry Ford to the este
From electric vehicles to corruption UAW faces huge challenges
By Martha Grevatt posted on February 16, 2021
General Motors CEO Mary Barra raised more than a few eyebrows Jan. 28, when she announced GM would have an all-electric product line by 2035. This planned phaseout of fossil fuel-burning vehicles represents a serious departure from four years ago, when GM joined the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers in calling on President-elect Donald Trump to scale back President Barack Obama’s fuel economy targets.
Detroit GM workers on strike, 2019, now their jobs face a new threat.
Why the about-face? It’s not like GM is a conscientious company, although CEO Barra won’t turn down an opportunity to boost its green reputation.
lawfully exercising one of these functions,
22 the scope of his power to issue written directives is exceedingly broad. In short, he may issue or execute whatever written directives, orders, guidelines (such as prosecutorial guidelines or nondiscriminatory enforcement policies), communiqués, dispatches, or other instructions he deems appropriate.
The President also may issue directives in the exercise of his statutorily delegated authority, unless Congress has specified in law that the statutory power may be exercised only in a particular way. A few examples of Congress s conditional grant of statutory authority are mentioned herein, but as previously explained, there are limits to how far Congress can go in an attempt to micromanage even the President s statutorily delegated authority.
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New Historical Novel Tears of Honor is a Sweeping Epic of the Japanese American Experience of Internment and War
A sweeping novel of history war, and courage in the face of injustice, Tears of Honor tells the story of the heroic Japanese American soldiers who fought against Nazi tyranny in Europe, while their families were imprisoned in America. Fresno, CA, February 16, 2021 (PR.com) This week marks the Day of Remembrance, when the Japanese American community observes the anniversary of February 19, 1942, the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the internment of Americans of Japanese descent. It should also be remembered that, despite the injustice of internment, a generation of young Japanese Americans from the camps volunteered for military service and fought with incredible bravery against the Nazis in Europe.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos GettyIn the morning hours of Jan. 5 in the remote woods of Maryland’s Catoctin Mountain Park, senior political advisers leading President Donald Trump’s vaccine effort gathered for a colloquium at Camp David.There were just over two weeks left in the administration and the sprawling presidential retreat—where President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill discussed the Allies’ invasion of Europe and where President Dwight Eisenhower met Nikita Krushchev—seemed like the perfect setting to mark the end of their work on Operation Warp Speed, or what attendees described as their “Manhattan Project.”To those who gathered in the woods that day, four of whom spoke to The Daily Beast for this story, Operation Warp Speed—the Trump administration’s effort to fast-track a COVID-19 vaccine within the span of a year—had been a resounding success, their job wa