"Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a qu..." — 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.

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

Republicans are a shrinking minority ruling an increasingly angry majority that not only wants to change the Republican policies that are moving wealth upward, but also threatens to hold Republican leaders accountable to the law.