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‘It Can’t Happen Here’ Is the Ironic Title of a Story about a Fascist Takeover of the U.S. that is Foiled in the End – Will There Come a Day When It Stops Being Ironic Because the Story Doesn’t Have a Happy Ending?

What role should the Supreme Court play in American politics?

We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it. An AI tax should target the companies that stand to make billions of dollars by laying people off.

Among Zohran Mamdani’s rhetorical innovations has been his declaration of war on mediocrity.

My grandfather (a 1917 Norwegian immigrant) frequently and proudly described himself as a socialist. When I asked him what he meant, he always pointed me to FDR, the New Deal, and his proposed Second Bill of Rights. And here we are again.

Preparing for a new phase of resistance

Democratic decline and inequality are not inevitable. But if restoring broad prosperity and social stability are the goals, they may require revisiting the New Deal-style policies.

As exhausting as they’ve felt to many Americans, these first months of Trump’s second term fall far short of what Roosevelt accomplished

Frances Perkins’s work to build FDR’s New Deal sparked the modern American state. She recognized that the central purpose of government was not to protect property; it was to protect the communities of people who lived in the nation.

The wars, the issues, and the protests, differ in key ways.