“When America’s Infrastructure Saved Democracy”

“‘It’s all falling into ruin now because we decided we didn’t have to maintain it,’ says Gray Brechin, geographer and founder of the online archive The Living New Deal, ‘Thank god, they built it all as well as they did.'” Popular Mechanics examines how the New Deal shaped our nation and compares it to President Trump’s promises.

Gabriel Milner is Project Manager for The Living New Deal. He is a trained cultural historian who teaches courses in U.S. History at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.

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