New Deal

Labor Watch
Liberal Commentator Discovers One Weird Trick to Progressive Utopia
Many Democrats are disappointed that President Joe Biden’s narrow election and the narrow Democratic majorities in the House and Senate have not yield liberal policy victories like those of Presidents…
by Michael Watson on July 29, 2022

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Golden State: A Tale of Two Cities
Summary: With over 10 percent of the nation’s population and an economy larger than that of France, California has loomed large in the nation’s politics and economy since the mid-20th…
by Michael Watson on July 28, 2022

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Golden State: Rise of Industrial California
Labor relations nationwide were transformed by the New Deal, especially the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) in 1935. The law abolished the strong form of the…
by Michael Watson on July 28, 2022

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Golden State: California’s Union Labor Machine
While private-sector unions remain powerful in California, the true center of labor organizing and government growth is its government-sector unions. Surprisingly perhaps given the vast growth in their power since…
by Michael Watson on July 28, 2022

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Golden State: Ballot Power
No discussion of California politics and policy can omit its extensive use of the ballot measure, and no discussion of California labor unions can omit their positions as among the…
by Michael Watson on July 28, 2022

Dangerous Documentaries
The Politically Incorrect Guide
Each episode of The Politically Incorrect Guide, starring Tom Woods and Michael Malice, covers undiscussed facts and stories about history, culture, and social movements that were purged from today’s mainstream…
by CRC Staff on December 24, 2021

Green Watch
Far-Left Activists Disinter FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps . . . for Global Warming?
At a time when the Left is reclassifying almost everything as “infrastructure” it should come as no surprise that someone would recall President Franklin Roosevelt’s public work relief program, the…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 25, 2021

Labor Watch
Supreme Court Limits Government’s Power to Aid Unions
This week, the Supreme Court decided Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, a challenge by agricultural producers in California against a regulation under the state’s agricultural unionization law that compelled producers…
by Michael Watson on June 24, 2021

Dangerous Documentaries
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal
In the second episode of The Politically Incorrect Guide, Tom Woods and Michael Malice demolish widespread myths about the Great Depression and the New Deal. Tom and Michael explain how…
by CRC Staff on February 23, 2021