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The Latest Breaking News from Franklin Roosevelt

Review: 'War by Other Means,' by Daniel Akst

NONFICTION: The little-known story of pacifist activism during World War II, told through the lives of four people.

Tribune News Service

Francis Wilkinson: Raphael Warnock and Georgia’s long campaign

Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia works out of the Russell Senate Office Building, the oldest and most imposing of the Capitol buildings housing senators and staff. Built on a granite base with marble and limestone facing, the Russell’s high-ceilinged, Beaux Arts corridors have the feeling of a Parisian boulevard —…

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Uniting America review: how FDR and the GOP beat fascism home and away

Charles Lindbergh casts a shadow over Peter Shinkle’s new book, which ends with a warning about Trump and his party

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Remembering the veterans who marched on DC to demand bonuses during the Depression, only to be violently driven out by active-duty soldiers

The Bonus Army March is a forgotten footnote of American history.

The Conversation

Francis Wilkinson: Biden’s warning about democracy will go unheeded

President Joe Biden, who delivered what is likely to be an ineffective speech Wednesday night on the perils faced by American democracy, might want to keep in mind Sen. Gerald Nye of North Dakota.

Tribune News Service

Michael Hiltzik: Overt racism and antisemitism have become part of our political discourse. How did that happen?

The fact that the Republican Party has a vacuum for its policy platform isn't necessarily a problem for the U.S., even if the GOP does manage to take control of one or both chambers of Congress.

Los Angeles Times

Ken Burns: ‘We’re in perhaps the most difficult crisis in the history of America’

In a new docuseries, the film-maker looks back to the Holocaust and US apathy to make links toward where we are right now

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Ken Burns makes the Holocaust personal

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein show us how America's antisemitism delayed our entry into World War II

Salon

Truss and Sunak are promising sunshine without rain – don’t believe them

From Churchill to Roosevelt, great leaders have told the public the truth: that in dark times, sacrifices must be made for the greater good, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Reordering of the federal-state balance

It’s been more than a quarter-century since President Bill Clinton memorably proclaimed that “the era of big government is over.”

Tribune News Service

Roosevelt and Ibn Saud built groundwork for current world order, on a boat

On Friday, Joe Biden will pay his first visit to Saudi Arabia as President of the US. The Biden trip is the latest twist in the saga of one of the most unlikely alliances in modern history.

Radio France Internationale

Jon Talton: Jeff Bezos adds his own misdirection on the inflation debate

It’s not unprecedented for titans of industry to attack presidents. Henry Ford was so outraged over former President Franklin Roosevelt’s Hundred Days of initial policies to address the Great Depression that he huffed FDR’s “particular genius is to try to run other people’s businesses.”

Tribune News Service

The US Supreme Court: what is its role and its powers?

The US Supreme Court is in the news around the world. The reason: a series of decisions which are already having – and will continue to have – a massive impact on the lives of ordinary Americans.

The Conversation

Michael Hiltzik: America is in the grip of a right-wing minority

Republicans and conservatives are fond of the shibboleth that "America is a republic, not a democracy." Boiled down to its essence, the phrase is a justification for awarding a strong voice in government to minority political views.

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Inside the remarkable lives of America's first ladies in exciting new TV series

A new TV series called The First Lady will look at the lives of Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt – played by Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson

Radio France Internationale

What price will Ukraine pay for Washington's 'Lend & Lease' generosity?

The US has approved legislation that will revamp the World War II-era military "Lend-Lease" program to boost Ukraine's military. But, as France and other allies have experienced, US assistance in times of crisis can come with a price.

The Independent UK

Trump launches personal attack on Fiona Hill after she likens him to Putin

In her recently-released memoir, Ms Hill says Mr Trump is far more like Russian president Vladimir Putin ‘in political practice and predilection’ than any of his 44 predecessors

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Historic Meeting between Saudi King Abdulaziz, US President Roosevelt

Every year on February 14, the Saudis and Americans remember the first meeting that brought together King Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman with then US President Franklin Roosevelt in the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. The historic meeting was known as the Quincy Summit or the Quincy Meeting, in…

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