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...

75 years ago: FDR laid out what is still needed

Jan 11, 2019 | CCDC Blog, Economy

75 years ago today, FDR gave his Jan. 11, 1944, “Fireside Chat” to the American people (among Presidential Speeches at Miller Center, UVa). The speech still resonates eerily, including the insights that nations must not work not against each other but...