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Topic: The Great Depression

Veterans of World War I gather outside the Congressional Library in Washington, to demand the immediate payment of a cash bonus promised to them eight years before, 15th July 1932. | Hundreds of demonstrators walk down 16th street to the White House, during a rally north of Lafayette Square near the White House to protest police brutality and racism, on June 7, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images/Salon)

Our 2020 summer recalls that of 1932

James N. Gregory - The Conversation
Donald Trump; Calvin Coolidge (AP/Salon)

Trump borrows from Coolidge's playbook

Edward Goldberg
(AP/Shutterstock/Salon)

Trump is repeating Hoover's mistake

Edward Goldberg

When tycoon presidents fail

Matthew Rozsa
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-12065p1.html'>Ioannis Ioannou</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

"Tell me this one, Momma"

Jonathan Odell
Henry Ford (Wikimedia/Jeffrey White Studios)

The murderer behind Henry Ford

A.J. Baime
Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his first radio "Fireside Chat" in Washington in March 1933. (AP)

FDR's most important lesson

Harvey J. Kaye
Russ Feingold, Sherrod Brown, Elizabeth Warren (Reuters/Larry Downing/AP/Tony Dejak/Joshua Roberts)

America’s next great president

Michael Lind
(Shutterstock)

Natasha Geiling - Smithsonian.com
Severely eroded farmland during the Dust Bowl, circa 1930's (U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Lindsay Abrams

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
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Stewart Lansley - LA Review of Books
Mitch McConnell

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
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Les Leopold
(Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

David Woolner - Next New Deal
Tom Hardy in "Lawless"

"Lawless": Right-wing fantasy?

Andrew O'Hehir

Sophie Roell - The Browser
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