Fulfilling FDR’s Dream: His Second Bill of Rights

Dec 31, 2019 | CCDC Blog, History

by Diane Ravitch, 12/31/19 I have engaged in a heated exchange off line with people who are upset about taxing billionaires. They feel sure that taxing the 1% or the .00025% is a slippery slope, and soon enough we will all pay taxes so high that we will have to give...

On this afternoon 156 years ago

Nov 19, 2019 | CCDC Blog, History

President Lincoln, often considered the greatest of all presidents, pronounced the Gettysburg Address in 1863 about 100 miles to our west. It is hard to tire, especially today, of reading his memorable, humane, and unifying words: Four score and seven years ago our...

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." — Nelson Mandela