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 ...

IN FEBRUARY 1938 John Maynard Keynes wrote a letter to the American president, Franklin Roosevelt. The occasion was America’s missing recovery. The country was eight years into a downturn and five ...

Washington — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that parts of President Trump's executive order stripping National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service of federal funding violated the First ...

The ruling will have minimal effect on the federal money going to public media because Congress voted to claw back funding. But it could have implications for any future funding. The ruling will have ...

Two new shows will debut this weekend on PBS following the end of the long-running "PBS News Weekend" program, which aired its last episode earlier this month due to a loss of federal funding. The ...

After more than half a century in operation, the nonprofit responsible for funding public media giants NPR and PBS will dissolve following millions in budget cuts spurred by the Trump administration.

As the only president elected to four terms and who saw the country through two of its greatest cataclysms — the Great Depression and World War II — biographies of Franklin Roosevelt were certain to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joseph J. Thorndike writes about tax history. When President Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met at the White ...

If there were any doubts that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the greatest scoundrels of American political history, David Beito's new biography should settle the issue. Beito—whose ...

No one expected the (one-sided) bromance that took place when New York’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani visited President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on November 21. For months, the two had traded ...

In President Franklin Roosevelt‘s White House, it was known as “Proclamation 2373.” In American culture, it swiftly became known as “Franksgiving” and was one of the most unpopular decisions made by ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual projects. That’s because he doesn’t really make subpar documentaries, although ...