"Since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have fought the fair examination of their ideas. They embrac..." — Heather Cox Richardson

The Democratic political juggernaut that emerged from the Depression and the New Deal meant that Republicans had to scramble to figure out a way to recover their former dominance.

The Middle Way included the largest public works project in American history: the Interstate Highway system, which updated American roads for a driving generation with leisure time on their hands, but expanded the federal government's purview.

Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their system of elite rule to the entire country. Poor men would be bound for life into menial labor, and American democracy would die.

The USPS is self-funding; it does not receive support from tax dollars, and it is required to serve the entire country.