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Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt

An excavator works to clear rubble after the East Wing of the White House was demolished on Oct. 23, 2025. (Eric Lee/Getty Images))

Trump destroys East Wing, erases history

Errin Haines, Amanda Becker - The 19th
Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, Viola Davis as Michelle Obama and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt in "The First Lady" (Ramona Rosales/SHOWTIME)

First Lady doesn't live up to its icons

Melanie McFarland
Syrian Kurdish refugees walk with their belongings after crossing into Turkey from the Syrian border town of Kobani on September 26, 2014 near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey. (Stringer/Getty Images)

Our hypocrisy on "human rights"

Elayne Clift
Eleanor Roosevelt (AP)

Elizabeth Preza - Alternet
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(Reuters/Mitch Dumke)

Defined by their look

Sonia Purnell
(AP/Santi Palacios)

What would Eleanor do?

B.A. Shapiro
(AP/Richard Shiro)

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt - Next New Deal
Eleanor Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Rosa Parks (AP/Wikimedia)

Let's boot Andrew Jackson too!

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
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(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

HRC's rendezvous with history

Joan Walsh
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Eleanor Roosevelt (AP)

Inside the Roosevelt rivalry

Marc Peyser, Timothy Dwyer
(PBS)

David B. Woolner - Next New Deal
(Reuters/Nir Elias/Baz Ratner/Salon)

The West’s selective amnesia

Falguni A. Sheth
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Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt in "Hyde Park on Hudson"

Bill Murray's sad, horny FDR

Andrew O'Hehir
(AP/Vicki Smith)

Brigid O'Farrell - Next New Deal
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