Nation Topics - Franklin Roosevelt | The Nation

Globalizing the global war on terror.

He began his career singing about cars and girls before moving on to empty factories and abandoned quarries—and now, with Wrecking Ball, the depredations of Wall Street.

It’s now the only governing institution that understands the depths of the economic crisis.

If their fortunes are ever to revive, liberals must find a way to recapture FDR’s militant and optimistic spirit.

American decline in perspective, part two.

That Lawrence Summers and Bill Clinton, the president he served as treasury secretary, can still get away with disclaiming responsibility for our financial meltdown is an insult to reason.

Clint Eastwood's cinematic exploration of the FBI chief's rise to power is little more than a comforting myth.

His 1934 California gubernatorial run created one of the most important mass movements ever,  helped push the New Deal to the left -- and inspired the birth of the modern political campaign.

Unwrapping the enigma of the career diplomat who wrote the Long Telegram.

Christopher Lasch and his quest for the moral resources of the next New Deal.