U.S. Debt by President: Dollar and Percentage

The national debt has increased under most U.S. presidents. Here is how much each president's time in office added to the U.S ...
Reason

No, FDR Did Not Pull America Out of the Great Depression

President Donald Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates. My socialist mayor wants to freeze rents. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) wants politicians to decide what prices are "excessive." So I ...

State Museum in Albany helping to preserve FDR's Capital Region roots

You’ve heard of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and probably know how he helped America out of the Great Depression.“I pledge ...
Washington Examiner

Trump becomes the new FDR, and not in a good way

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before signing an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Trump’s approach to ...
The American Spectator

Partial History: FDR and America First

Franklin Roosevelt’s battle with the famous aviator and anti-interventionist Charles Lindbergh is often presented as a morality play showing Roosevelt to be the long-sighted hero in the war on fascism ...
Newsweek

FDR’s 1939 State of the Union: Warning About Threats to Religion From Abroad

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It was January 4, 1939, a mere months after Germany annexed Austria.
Bloomberg L.P.

FDR Needed Two Global Crises to Reshape the Economy. Will Biden?

Noah Smith is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, and he blogs at Noahpinion. President Joe Biden’s transformative economic agenda ...