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☆ Opinion | Ukraine Aid in the Light of History
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Paul Krugman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

On Saturday the House of Representatives finally overcame MAGA opposition and approved a new aid package for Ukraine. I’m relieved that a nation under siege will probably — probably — get aid in time to survive, at least for a while, something that was increasingly in doubt given overwhelming Russian artillery superiority. And I’m worried because that faction remains powerful — a majority of Republicans in the House voted against Ukraine aid — and could still doom Ukraine in the years ahead. No, spending on Ukraine isn’t a huge burden on America, coming at the expense of domestic priorities. No, America isn’t bearing this cost alone, without help from our European allies.

Persons: MAGA, Biden, I’m, Vladimir Putin, —, Franklin Organizations: Republicans, Lease Locations: Ukraine, America, U.S, Europe, Britain, China, Harbor

That sort of approach resonated in conservative strongholds like Alabama long before Trump. Alabama Democrats, especially, cite deep historical roots involving racism, class and urban-rural divides when explaining Wallace, Trump and the decades between them. Moderate to progressive “national Democrats” were concentrated in north Alabama, Baxley explained, while reactionary “states-rights Dixiecrats” cohered in south Alabama. Wallace won four Deep South states as an independent in 1968. Wallace won his fourth term as governor in 1982 after disavowing segregation and winning over enough Black voters.

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☆ The Super Rich No Longer Try To Support Their Societies - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Guido Alfani | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Nobody made this point better than the Tuscan humanist Poggio Bracciolini. Indeed, the rich merchants who were the main “victims” of forced loans were also the rulers of patrician republics and understood they were contributing their private resources to the public good. These loans proved to be a poor investment, as the interest tended to become negative in real terms because of hyperinflation. Of course, historically, wars provide the best possible motivation to ask citizens to contribute more: either with their blood or with their cash. For example, this was explicit in the fiscal package introduced in the United States as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Persons: Poggio Bracciolini, avaritia, Liberty Bonds Organizations: Liberty Locations: Europe, Italy, Venice, Ottoman Empire, United States, Britain, Franklin Roosevelt’s

☆ An aggrieved McCarthy weighs leaving the House with his GOP foes on his mind
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Manu Raju | Sam Fossum | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

McCarthy continually accused Gaetz of only going after him because of a House Ethics Committee probe he’s facing, a charge the GOP hardliner has repeatedly denied. “If the Ethics Committee never does anything to Gaetz, then Gaetz was successful in stopping probably what rightfully should come to him,” McCarthy said. Asked if he were concerned about Johnson’s approach to Gaetz, McCarthy said: “That’s a question for Speaker Johnson. It’s not good for the House,’” McCarthy said of Pelosi. Asked if he had thought he would make it two years as speaker, McCarthy said: “I never knew.”McCarthy credited Trump for his winning the gavel.

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☆ Trump’s Mug Shot Is a Natural Fit in the History of Presidential Portraits - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Cara Finnegan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

If Adams worried about the photographs he posed for, later presidents worried about the photographs they didn’t consent to. It’s well known that the White House sought to keep evidence of Franklin Roosevelt’s physical disability out of sight, but advisers were also anxious that even the most routine candid shot might make him look bad. As the first social media president, Barack Obama walked the line between control and interactivity. The administration took advantage of nearly every new social media outlet as it emerged. In addition, White House photographers, led by Pete Souza, built a huge visual archive of presidential photographs shared in real time on Flickr.

Persons: Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin, Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Pete Souza Organizations: White, Photography, White House, Flickr

☆ Opinion | More Public Pools Could Save Thousands of Lives
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Mara Gay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But the transformative move would be to build far more public pools across the United States. Too few public poolsThere are more than 10 million private swimming pools in the United States, according to a C.D.C. By many available measures, public pools can be the safest places to swim. Yet the United States hasn’t made a serious investment in public pools since the Great Depression, when scores of grand public pools were erected in many parts of the country under President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, according to Jeff Wiltse, the author of “Contested Waters,” a book about the history of swimming pools. In the 1960s, many towns across the South filled or destroyed their public pools rather than allow Black Americans to swim in them.

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☆ Opinion: History is not on Donald Trump’s side
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Opinion Gautham Rao | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Editor’s Note: Gautham Rao is associate professor of American and legal history at American University in Washington and editor-in-chief of Law and History Review. CNN —Here we are with another scandal involving former President Donald Trump. Over time, the professionalization of the government workforce would feature the rise of a civil service, the emergence of bureaucratic experts and the establishment of administrative law. The Presidential Records Act of 1978, passed in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate scandal, was another example of this evolving system. In 1974 Congress passed a law specifically to prevent Nixon from withholding records and followed it up a few years later with The Presidential Records Act, which explicitly designates presidential records as public records.

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☆ The Inflation Reduction Act Will Allow an Asset Manager Takeover of Our Infrastructure - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Brett Christophers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Inflation Reduction Act will reshape the physical and economic landscape of the United States over the next decade, including in ways that might surprise a lot of people. will help accelerate the growing private ownership of U.S. infrastructure, and in particular its concentration among a handful of global asset managers like Brookfield. This is taking the United States into risky territory. and 2021’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, President Biden’s other key legislation for infrastructure investment, is that they represent a renewal of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal infrastructure programs of the 1930s. Public ownership of major infrastructure has remained an American mainstay ever since.

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