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Topic: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump is creating the Second Gilded Age

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
An immigrant family looking at the Statue of Liberty from Ellis Island. circa 1930. (Courtesy of Library of Congress)

Ken Burns makes the Holocaust personal

Melanie McFarland
The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold by Dan Goldberg (Beacon Press/Salon)

History repeating on racism, violence

Dan C. Goldberg
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (Getty/Win McNamee)

Chuck Schumer teases "Rooseveltian" aid

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a news conference at his New Hampshire headquarters, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020 in Manchester, N.H. (Amanda Marcotte)

An FDR Democrat and US constitutionalist

Thomas I. Palley - The Globalist
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How U.S. broke up with Democratic Party

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
President Donald Trump speaks to the nation in his first-prime address from the Oval Office of the White House on January 8, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Kevin Dietsch)

Four things to watch in Trump's SOTU

Alex Henderson - Alternet
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

America, in Trump's image

Jacob Sugarman
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The poison pill that kills the New Deal

Heather Cox Richardson - BillMoyers.com
Field Marshal Hermann Goering makes his speech at Nuremberg, Germany (AP)

All the world at war's a stage

Nathaniel Lande
Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump (AP/Doug Mills/Andrew Harnik/Photo montage by Salon)

Thom Hartmann - Alternet
Franklin Roosevelt; Donald Trump (AP/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Salon)

Trump's "New Deal" for Blacks

Chauncey DeVega
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Trump's faulty FDR defense

Silpa Kovvali
(Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich)

Steven Rosenfeld - Alternet
David Koch in a still from "Citizen Koch"

We're getting the right wrong

Elias Isquith
Michelle Rhee, Rahm Emanuel, Arne Duncan (Reuters/Hyungwon Kang/Yuri Gripas/Larry Downing)

"Democracy cannot survive"

Elias Isquith
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Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his first radio "Fireside Chat" in Washington in March 1933. (AP)

FDR's most important lesson

Harvey J. Kaye
Sailors watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP)

Pearl Harbor: Did we know?

David Kaiser
John Boehner (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lunatics have Boehner pinned

Alex Pareene
(AP/Wikimedia)

When FDR went to war

Michael Fullilove
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Franklin Roosevelt

Elizabeth Pearson
Martin Luther King Jr.

Bijan C. Bayne
(Associated Press)

David Woolner - Next New Deal
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