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Historian and Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff told the Times of Israel that Ken Burns’s new documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust, which airs on PBS this week, whitewashes President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s wartime record on saving Jews.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Democrats “were right to try to be FDR, try to do something big” with the Build Back Better reconciliation bill. Brooks said that if the new inflation numbers in January

Best Defense Foundation took over 60 World War II veterans back to Pearl Harbor to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the December 7, 1941 attack.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-GA) said she agrees with fellow Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s (D-VA) statement that “Nobody elected [President Joe Biden] to be FDR, they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos.” Host

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said, “We’re not packing the Supreme Court. We’re unpacking it,” during Democrats’ legislative announcement Thursday..

Over three-quarters of likely U.S. voters say Americans are “less tolerant” of each others’ varying political opinions despite President Biden’s initial calls for unity, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found. 

Harsh restrictions put in place because of the coronavirus have caused thousands of U.S. restaurants to close indefinitely or for good.

When President Trump entered Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to be treated for the coronavirus, it continued historic tradition.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that if the platforms created as a result of the task forces that Sanders helped form with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden are implemented,

Several prominent liberal groups are joining the push by some Democrats to expand the Supreme Court to eleven justices, a move designed to eliminate the Court’s current 5-4 conservative majority.

Here’s how Donald Trump can get re-elected even if unemployment is higher than it has been since the Great Depression.

Joe Biden had to adopt socialist policies to consolidate his support, and he shares the left’s vision of transforming the country.

Democrats faced a grim problem with an unhealthy nominee in the 1944 election, and they developed an effective workaround.

President Trump declared a “Whole of America approach” to fighting the coronavirus war. President Roosevelt used that same strategy to lead the U.S. to victory in World War Two.

Socialist presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders indicated that he and his followers welcome the hatred of groups like the NRA.

Henry Olsen said Bernie Sanders reinterprets President Roosevelt’s New Deal in order to “transform the nature of America” in “a socialist direction.” Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the FDR’s New Deal and moved it in the direction Roosevelt intended.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a speech on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s wealth was built on “racial discrimination.”

Democrats have made blatant and unapologetic attempts to subvert U.S. founding institutions in their lust for power that they cannot achieve through the existing governing framework.

You have to give her credit Ocasio-Cortez credit: even with that Jerry the Mouse voice she manages to sound authoritative while being so wrong:

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the essay that changed the world: Jeane Kirkpatrick’s “Dictatorships and Double Standards.” Her words are as relevant to today’s foreign policy challenges as they were to 1979’s.

In Part One of this series, we saw how, back in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt chose to look past the serious flaws in the Russian regime of Josef Stalin in order to isolate, and confront, the mortal threat from the German regime of Adolf Hitler. 

Henry Olsen, author of “The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism,” challenged popular conceptions of Ronald Reagan, during a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour. 

Like FDR, Trump appeals to our past victories to summon the courage to see beyond today’s fears. It is difficult to imagine any other candidate doing the same.

A Latino professor from Florida says Congress should divert money away from building walls along the southwestern border to fund the rebuilding of Puerto Rico. He went on to call for an FDR-style public works program for the U.S. territory that was devastated by Hurricane Maria.

The Democrats have a new slogan and economic agenda: “A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages.”

The president, born to a wealthy Protestant family in New York, was seemingly surrounded by military men, and he frequently used martial rhetoric to make his points. This military influence disturbed his many critics, who accused him of concentrating executive power in un-democratic hands.

In the last installment, we examined some positive historical precedents for a new president’s foreign policy. In this installment, we will consider positive precedents for a new president’s domestic policy.

A new study documents that “regulatory drag” has eliminated about a third of economic growth in America since 1980, and explains why the top one percent’s inflation-adjusted share of income has tripled, while the middle class has lost income.

Drudge Report editor and Washington Times columnist Charles Hurt appeared on Breitbart News Daily to talk about what SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon described as “the most unreported story in political history”: Bernie Sanders’ string of victories over presumptive front-runner Hillary Clinton, weeks after the media and Democrat Party establishment essentially declared the race over.

Would President Trump be that bad?

In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, Pat Buchanan declared that Trump’s rise represents a rejection of 25 years of Bush Republicanism— an ideology which Buchanan says has destroyed America’s once-great manufacturing core, flooded the country with low-skilled workers, and drained the treasury with ill-advised foreign adventures in the Middle East.

Justice Stephen Breyer will not express an opinion on Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, in keeping with two centuries of Supreme Court tradition. But he did express an opinion on a related point: American courts are unlikely to allow Muslims to be held in detention camps.

So now we’re launching airstrikes aimed at really hurting ISIS? Fox News reported on Monday that the US military had destroyed 116 ISIS fuel trucks near the Syrian-Iraq border. Considering that oil is the only valuable export that the Flintstones economy of the Islamic State possesses, that’s a devastating blow.

With the signing of the Congressional budget deal on November 2 and sale of at least another $1.5 trillion in Treasury debt before he leaves office, President Obama will have earned title: “Mr. $20 Trillion.”

A vote against the Iran deal will not bring war, in spite of what President Barack Obama says.

This is an era of rapid social change, and also of historical ferment, when Americans are rethinking not only who we are, but who we were.