FDR followed up by ruling that businesses could not significantly increase wages or salaries without authorization by the National War Labor Board. Problem solved. Except, as it turned out ...

If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in office is the model for presidents who want to get things done.

After Roosevelt ... and recovery of the national economy. Though African Americans were not the intended audience for these programs, they benefitted as many citizens did. Labor laws that ...