Nearly 100 years later, Americans are still benefiting from New Deal programs—and their protections and entitlements have become such a part of the social fabric that we often take them for granted.

What was the original New Deal about, again? Most kids are taught that it was a decidedly left-wing project to end the Great Depression, a series of big-spending government programs such as the ...

Proposals to create a “Climate Corps” are rooted in affection for the New Deal program that put 3 million men to work during the Great Depression planting trees, laying down trails, and ...

Watch Risa Goluboff explain how African Americans benefitted from FDR's New Deal programs, even though they weren't the intended audience.

Margaret Talbot reviews Scott Borchert’s new book, “Republic of Detours,” about the Federal Writers’ Project, part of the New Deal in the nineteen-thirties, during the Depression, and ...

Even New Deal programs that improved lives did not insulate the American people. There was stagflation in the 1970s. Untamed financial markets fueled a housing bubble during the 2000s.

The Civil Conservation Corps was one of the New Deal’s most successful programs. It addressed the pressing problem of unemployment by sending 3 million single men from age 17 to 23 to the ...

These programs made a big difference for the land, as well as for the people they employed: A 1946 report found that New Deal projects built or upgraded 650,000 miles of roads, more than 125,000 ...

The New Deal is not dead or dying. Instead, New Deal 2.0’s vast network of programs accounts for over half of federal spending and grows steadily.

The most effective part of F.D.R.’s program wasn’t its direct spending. It was his use of U.S. financial might to reignite business. By Louis Hyman Mr. Hyman, an economic historian, is the ...