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Herbert Hoover

A black and white photo of people going through immigration queues

Cuccinelli’s ‘bootstraps’ line reflects historical amnesia of ‘public charge’

Immigration

The “likely to become a public charge” clause originally targeted southern and eastern European immigrants. It has since become a tool to exclude “undesirable” immigrants du jour.

The Great Depression pushed millions of Americans into catastrophic poverty. Here, a mother and her shoeless children stand beside their home, a tin shack, in Elm Grove, Oklahoma, 1st August 1936

Economists warn Trump’s policies will start a 1930s-era trade war

Economics
Soldiers from the 35th US Volunteer Infantry subject a Filipino to the ‘water cure,’ a common ‘enhanced interrogation’ technique employed during the war to pacify the Philippines between 1899 and 1902.

America has used water to torture people for more than a century

Justice
A solar panel produced at SolarWorld, America's largest manufacturer.

US solar panel manufacturers get a gift from the US military

Business, Economics and Jobs

Remembering the Country’s Forgotten Presidents

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A green new deal

Environment

Franklin D. Roosevelt launched his New Deal in the first hundred days of his administration. Will President-elect Barack Obama embark on an ambitious green New Deal when he takes office?

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