As America approaches the midway point of this decade, we can agree that it has been one heck of a year. Following the news ...

There is a strange and worrying parallel between the breakneck speed at which Donald Trump has operated in the first few ...

This year marks the Bicentennial, 2024-2025, of Lafayette and his farewell tour, “Guest of the Nation”, which took place August 15, 1824-September 7, 1825. To commemorate the occasion, the LaGrange ...

This administration has taken us back to a time before the 1930s, a time of social insecurity and financial fear. The social ...

The following is an installment of the “Letter from New York” column by Jacob Margolies, The Yomiuri Shimbun’s General ...

Whatever happened to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tradition of fireside chats? Frances Gelles | Denver The spread of radio gave Roosevelt the means to have his speeches broadcast into ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt In an effort to keep the United States out of war, Roosevelt made the case during a fireside chat on Dec. 29, 1940, that the nation must provide additional support to Great ...

The president even coined the “hundred days” phrasing, using it in a July 24, 1933, fireside chat on his recovery program, describing it as a period “devoted to the starting of the wheels of ...

In July, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described the “crowded events” that set “the wheels of the New Deal” in motion during the first few months of his new presidency ...

If you’re looking for a “podcast” to take your mind off of things, I have a great suggestion: President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “fireside chats.” I know the title makes it sound like ...

Late President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first fireside chat on this day in 1933 to an audience of approximately 60 million, setting the standard for a leader's obligation to explain himself.