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What Is the FDIC? Why Was It Created? The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., otherwise known as the FDIC, was forged in the aftermath of the Great Depression by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as part of a national financial industry reform initiative. The agency's famous tagline is ...

What Are Animal Spirits? Who Coined the Term? Economists look at an individual’s behavior to understand stock market movements because emotion often drives market sentiment. The term “animal spirits” was first used by a Greek physician named Galen in the second century CE. Galen believed an entire ...

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein show us how America's antisemitism delayed our entry into World War II

FDR's plan to expand the Supreme Court nearly derailed his presidency. That doesn't mean it was a bad idea

Ron Klain compares Biden’s achievements to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson in interview

On Friday, Joe Biden will pay his first visit to Saudi Arabia as President of the US. The Biden trip is the latest twist in the saga of one of the most unlikely alliances in modern history.

A ballot access law meant to block Communists has become an obstacle to third-party politics.

Everything about your financial life seems so much harder these days, doesn’t it? I’m sure you’ve wondered why it is so difficult to save money and retire comfortably. We’ve come to treat retirement as a given in our society;  a sacrosanct stage of life. But let’s not forget that retirement…

‘This Maga crowd is really the most extreme political organization that's existed in American history’