It feels frustratingly appropriate that after my column last Wednesday in which I called for a careful strategy for improving Government efficiency, on the following Friday the Government would termin ...

Nearly 100 years after the Great Depression, Americans are still benefiting from New Deal programs—and their protections and entitlements have become such a part of the social fabric that we ...

But the very same kinds of policies that were tried-- and failed-- during the 1930s are being carried out in Washington today, with the advocates of such policies often invoking FDR's New Deal as ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a lifelong connection with Springwood, his family home in Hyde Park, New York.

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.

Global militaristic folly turned the U.S. into an economic, as well as military, “superpower.” Stay in the know with our free newsletter Receive stories from Albany straight to your inbox. Delivered ...

The doctrine of humanism is based partly on the principle that we have the responsibility to respect and care for one another ...

Money in circulation mirrors production. Reduced money in circulation didn’t cause the 1930s, rather it was an effect of ...

Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political ...

Imagine looking at a state in forty-year intervals. Documenting Kentucky: Three Photographic Surveys, does just that in a new show at the Frazier History ...

Government Programs Matter—A Lot!The super-rich people who run the Republican Party are always telling us, “Government can’t ...