NewDeal

President Barack Obama hasn't given up. Having seen Congressional Republicans dash his hopes of passing his American Jobs Act wholesale, Obama is now seeking to get his bill through in what he calls "bite-sized pieces." The legislation has reignited a decades-old debate about jobs creation through infrastructure plans.

One of the most poignant lines in Max Ehrmann's Desiderata is the advice that one should "Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time." While the past few years have made that advice seem old-fashioned, the recent economic downturn...

Although die-hard conservative apologists sometimes argue that FDR actually prolonged the Great Depression, most historians and economists agree that the New Deal reduced both the severity and length of the country's economic doldrums. In fact, while World War II generally gets the credit for...