What We Learn From FDR's New Deal (On Point)

Lessons from the New Deal. It wasn’t one big package wrapped in political consensus. We look at the real, messy process that pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression.
Interview:
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/05/27/what-we-learn-from-fdrs-new-deal

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's 70 Percent Tax: The Numbers Behind The Proposal (Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point)

Radical? Or the right thing to do? We’ll analyze the numbers behind Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to push the top tax rate to 70 percent.

Interview: 

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/01/08/ocasio-cortez-70-percent-tax-green-new-deal

The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal | Alternet

Today’s Republicans would have fit right in to Herbert Hoover’s administration.....
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gop-tax-scam-kills-new-deal

This is what the Republicans are really up to -- Raw Story

It isn't easy watching the country you love fall down a black hole from which it is not likely to emerge, but that is precisely what happened this past week with the Senate passage of the so-called "tax reform" bill. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/this-is-what-the-republicans-are-really-up-to/

A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal government began a program explicitly designed to increase — and segregate — America's housing stock. Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation."

The government's efforts were "primarily designed to provide housing to white, middle-class, lower-middle-class families," he says. African-Americans and other people of color were left out of the new suburban communities — and pushed instead into urban housing projects....
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america