What is the Republican effort to ensure a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for a generation?
Republicans’ efforts to ensure a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for a generation, like state-level efforts to suppress the vote of people of color and gerrymander districts to dilute their electoral clout, are a clear expression of white fear.
What was the last major program inspired by the New Deal?
Medicare and Medicaid, which became law in 1965, were the last major programs inspired by the New Deal. Since then, America has turned against welfare in favor of another, different tool of social management: prison.
Who was the first liberal to create a welfare state?
There are few greater heroes to liberals than Franklin Roosevelt, the first architect of America’s welfare state. His New Deal to combat the Great Depression proposed the government as guarantor of the well-being of the governed.
