Global events and FDR whittled down 1930s opposition to intervention in Europe and steered the nation into World War II.
A program to provide adults with a steady paycheck can be funded without driving up taxes or prices. Here's how it might work.
When you build an entire system around the stock market's performance, these are the erratic, frequently disastrous results.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the 22 representatives behind the effort are proposing to finance it similarly to how FDR funded the New Deal.
On the 77th anniversary of the strike, retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Don Long reflects on that infamous day from his home in Napa, Calif.
World War I caused deaths on a then-unimaginable scale, sowed the seeds of WWII and forever restricted our civil liberties.
The national leader has support of nearly 70 percent in voting by his ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Key EU leaders travel to Japan and China looking for the trust, friendship and cooperation they feel they can no longer get from a century-old ally.
Mainstream voices never mention that regime change pushed by one country against another is illegal.
Monstrous U.S. war crimes since the early 1950s have gone down George Orwell's "memory hole." Now, we have no concept of empathy—or reality.
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