Franklin D. Roosevelt
JRB can follow FDR and LBJ’s path and use the power of the federal government to push back against governors and judges opposing the public interest during a national emergency.
Liberals, moderates, and leftists were more unified this year than at any point in American history since 1936. It was great. But can it last?
On June 6, 1944, Franklin Roosevelt went on the radio and led the nation in prayer. Avoiding any trace of bluster, he asked not for conquest but for a better world.
No matter how many trysts JFK had or how much he drank, his habits paled in comparison to his father Joe’s alleged activities during Prohibition.
After Yalta, FDR went to Egypt to meet with King Ibn Saud to persuade him to accept a homeland for the Jews. It did not go to plan.
For Freedoms is an artists’ collective whose aim is to stir up political debate. How do its controversial images on attention-grabbing billboards change hearts and minds?