Harvey J. Kaye
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Green Bay, WI, United States
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Do Democrats Really Need Wall Street?
Halloween is coming and fear mongering seems to be the order of the day — not just on the part of Republicans, but apparently no less so on the part of “centrist” and conservative Democrats who are expressing growing anxiety about offending big donors who see politics not as the pursuit of justice but as the pursuit of their interests. → Read More
Do Democrats Really Need Wall Street?
A former Democratic operative writes in "The New York Times" that the party needs to strengthen ties to Wall Street. He's dead wrong. → Read More
Historian Harvey Kaye’s got a response to those who say Democrats need Wall Street
FDR's old progressive coalition can still win elections, he says. → Read More
Time to Recall a Progressive ‘Truly Great’ First 100 Days
Franklin Roosevelt’s first “Hundred Days” of 1933, in which the newly-elected president and a Democratic-controlled Congress confronted the ravages of the Great Depression by enacting an unprecedented roster of 15 major new laws, have haunted the egomaniacal Donald Trump – and his own first 100 days as president have fascinated the media. While Trump in his own inimical way has been both… → Read More
Time to Recall a Progressive ‘Truly Great’ First 100 Days
Franklin Roosevelt’s first “Hundred Days” of 1933, in which the newly-elected president and a Democratic-controlled Congress confronted the ravages of the Great Depression by enacting an unprecedented roster of 15 major new laws, have haunted the egomaniacal Donald Trump – and his own first 100 days as president have fascinated the media. While Trump in his own inimical way has been both… → Read More
Time to Recall a Progressive 'Truly Great' First 100 Days –
The Resistance needs to develop a memory of how past generations confronted reactionary threats to American democracy. → Read More
Who Says It Can't Happen Here?
Donald Trump’s candidacy and now, presidency, have resurrected a public discourse not heard in this country since the Great Depression — an anxious discourse about the possible triumph in America of a fascist-tinged authoritarian regime over liberal democracy. It’s a fear Sinclair Lewis turned into a 1935 bestselling novel, It Can’t Happen Here — although, as Lewis told it, it sure as hell could… → Read More
Let Them Call Us Rebels
In December 1776, during the darkest days of the Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote the first of his American Crisis papers. Following devastating defeats by British forces in Brooklyn and Manhattan, George Washington and the Continental Army were retreating across New Jersey to the Delaware River and Pennsylvania. Paine rode with them, determined to continue the fight and defiantly reaffirming his… → Read More
Rendezvous with destiny: Newt Gingrich’s long war against FDR and the New Deal enters its final stage
Don't take Newt lightly: He sees Donald Trump as the final stage of his long campaign to undo the New Deal → Read More
Progressives, Talk Hold of American History
The election results may have been different had Democrats embraced America's past and its radical imperative of freedom, equality and democracy. → Read More
It’s Time to Cultivate a New Grand Narrative
Occupy Wall Street - By David Shankbone - Own work, CC BY 3.0 The time has come. After forty years of class war from above – of conservative political ascendance, neoliberal public policies, and well-funded culture wars that together have subordinated the public good to private greed, made the rich grossly richer, and led so many of us to deny our democratic impulses and yearnings – Americans… → Read More
The Year FDR Sought to Make America 'Fairly Radical'
Accepting the Democratic nomination for a second presidential term 80 years ago this summer in Philadelphia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the most radical speech ever given by an American president. He called for a political and economic revolution against the power and privilege of the 1 percent. We are unlikely to hear such a speech this July in Philadelphia. And yet, that does… → Read More
Keeping the True Faith: Rediscovering America on the National Mall
It is easy to scoff at and debunk the “history” Newt Gingrich offers on the walking tour featured in his latest book. → Read More
Time for Radical Action, Not National Therapy
Now that Donald Trump has all but officially won the GOP presidential nomination, New York Times columnist David Brooks asks, “What are we supposed to do?” He isn’t asking Republican leaders that question. “They seem blithely unaware that this is … Continue reading → Read More
Why Democrats Are Ready for Lincoln
Take notes, progressives. As documented in the new book ‘A Just and Generous Nation,’ the Great Emancipator’s vision of America’s exceptionalism rested on its civil equality and economic democracy. → Read More
This Generation, Too, Has a Rendezvous with Destiny
It is time for you and your generation to transform this nation as Americans did in the 1770s – the 1860s – and the 1930s and 1940s – not to mention the 1960s. → Read More
This Generation, Too, Has a Rendezvous with Destiny
It is time for you and your generation to transform this nation as Americans did in the 1770s – the 1860s – and the 1930s and 1940s – not to mention the 1960s. → Read More
American History For The Twitter Age
A new book takes on American history in the style of Steinbeck and Benet. → Read More
Think Your Voting Rights Are Guaranteed? Think Again.
Ari Berman’s new book on voting rights—and how precarious they remain in modern elections—is a must-read before November 2016. → Read More
Social Democracy Is 100% American
Appearing late last week on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri insisted that Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont “is too liberal to gather... → Read More