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Why Eleanor Roosevelt’s civics book for kids is making a comeback
In 1932, Eleanor Roosevelt’s husband Franklin had just been elected president. In the throes of raising five children, Eleanor thought they should know “what their parents were up to”…
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Socialism and the Liberal Imagination
How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.
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Henry Morgenthau III, producer who helped shape public television, dies at 101
Henry Morgenthau III, a TV producer and documentarian who helped shape public television in its early days and provided a forum for the nation’s civil rights conversation in the 1960s,…
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Face facts. The west that won the cold war no longer exists
“In such times it is easy to forget that the ‘western’ model is still the best way to organise people into peaceful, prosperous societies”
