My great-grandfather, Irwin Steingut, the first Jewish speaker of the New York State Assembly. Irwin died decades before I ...

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On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

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Global militaristic folly turned the U.S. into an economic, as well as military, “superpower.” Stay in the know with our free newsletter Receive stories from Albany straight to your inbox. Delivered ...

How DEI grew from civil rights struggles to corporate trend. A look at 100 years of effort, from Wilson to Biden, and why ...

I’m writing something different. Over the weekend, by chance, I watched parts of the Roosevelts documentary on Amazon. OK, ...

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.

More than half a century ago, when I was a young, enlisted man stationed at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington D.C., I contacted former Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler.

Allied Commercial has converted and restored an 85-year-old post office in Venice, California, into a 23,690-square-foot creative campus for media, events and seminars designed to foster artistic ...

The centerpiece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic agenda was the New Deal. Roosevelt and New Dealers in Congress enacted statutes and reforms that clearly violated settled Supreme ...

Roosevelt, who took office in 1933 and steered the U.S. economy through the Great Depression and World War II, ushered in the first phase of the New Deal within his first 100 days.