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Franklin D Roosevelt

June 2024

  • Working-class background … two works by Lee Krasner.

    The great women's art bulletin
    One vision, 4000 artists and a country transformed: why the next British PM must copy Roosevelt

    Roosevelt’s New Deal gave artists like Alice Neel and Lee Krasner a lifeline during a time of crisis – and it changed the face of America. Whoever wins the UK election should take heed

March 2024

  • A mural depicting phases of the New Deal in the US, by Conrad Albrizio

    Rejuvenating and protecting the arts requires creative thinking

    Letters: The UK’s creative skills have never been in higher demand, writes James Purnell, while Gush Mundae says we can’t wait for Labour to fix things, and Dan Thompson takes inspiration from the New Deal

July 2023

  • President Franklin Roosevelt<br>President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seated behind microphone, during one of his fireside chats, Washington DC, 1937. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

    Cocaine in the White House: a brief history

    The drug was found in the building this weekend – and it’s probably not the first time it’s been inside

June 2023

  • Will Hutton

    Millions are facing soaring mortgage rates. How did we leave them so vulnerable?

    Will Hutton
    Homeowners in Britain are especially at risk because of a shortage of long-term loans. The sooner the Bank of England acts to fix this the better

May 2023

  • Huts at the Minidoka war relocation center in the Magic Valley, Jerome county, Idaho, on 4 November 1942.

    ‘Memorial to all who suffered’: survivors protest wind farm near Japanese American incarceration site

    About 13,000 people were held at the Minidoka camp during the second world war. Now, a green energy project threatens the ‘sacred’ place

April 2023

  • On 6 June 1933, Franklin D Roosevelt signs a bill at the White House. Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, stands behind the president.

    Unlikely Heroes review: the advisers who helped FDR shape America

    Frances Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace are given their dues in a fascinating group biography

November 2022

  • Franklin D Roosevelt speaks on the radio from the White House in 1941.

    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

January 2022

  • the statue of the first US president George Washington beneath the rotunda of the Capitol building in Washington DC.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about US presidents

    From the anguish of Lincoln to the showbiz of Reagan and Obama’s introspection, these books show the power and helplessness of America’s commanders-in-chief

December 2021

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    A post-Covid New Deal can restore economic hope in 2022

    Larry Elliott
    Roosevelt built back better after the depression by taxing the rich, introducing capital controls and altering the balance between labour and capital

June 2021

  • US and UK flags

    US-UK to sign post-Covid Atlantic charter in echo of wartime accord

    Johnson and Biden will meet at G7 to sign new version of 1941 document focusing on modern challenges

May 2021

  • A still of Orson Welles from New Deal for Artists.

    New Deal For Artists: an unearthed film on how arts funding should work

  • Biden congratulate NASA JPL Perseverance team on the Mars landing<br>epa09052661 US President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual call to congratulate the NASA JPL Perseverance team on the successful Mars Landing in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA 04 March 2021. EPA/Oliver Contreras / POOL

    ‘He’s like an upside down iceberg’: historian Jon Meacham on Joe Biden

April 2021

  • A protest by Deliveroo workers in London for better pay, rights and safety.

    Strong trade unions are vital to the UK’s economic recovery

  • February 1945, Yalta Conference (Crimea). Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in the foreground<br>Yalta Conference (Crimea). Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in the foreground, Admiral D. Leahy (behind Roosevelt), sir A. Cunningham (behind Churchill). On the left, E. Estattinius and Molotov can be seen, February 1945, U.S.S.R. - World War II, U.S. Army Photo, . (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin review – a revisionist take on the second world war

November 2020

  • Eleanor Roosevelt was the niece of one president, the wife of another – and a world campaigner for human rights and dignity.

    Eleanor review: sensitive and superb biography of a true American giant

    With a flaws-and-all study of a woman who strode the world in the name of democracy, David Michaelis hits new heights

July 2020

  • Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos

    Only bold state intervention will save us from a future owned by corporate giants

    Joe Guinan and Martin O'Neill
    If small businesses fail after Covid-19, the big boys will become even more powerful. There is an answer, say authors Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill
  • Workers unite … detail of a fresco at Coit Tower, San Francisco, painted in 1934 by Victor Arnautoff.

    Culture in peril
    From no deal to New Deal: how Boris Johnson could follow FDR and save the arts

    In the grip of the Great Depression, America bankrolled 10,000 artists – and reaped the rewards. As Britain’s arts face oblivion, will Boris Johnson’s £1.57bn rescue package match up to Roosevelt’s New Deal?
  • Boris Johnson on a visit to the Speller Metcalfe’s building site at The Dudley Institute of Technology this week

    Boris Johnson and the delusion of a ‘new deal’

    Letters: Readers are unimpressed by the prime minister’s promise of £5bn to rebuild Britain

June 2020

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    How does Boris Johnson's 'new deal' compare with Franklin D Roosevelt's?

  • Boris Johnson

    'Absolutely fanciful': Boris Johnson's new deal not Rooseveltian, say critics

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