Last week, in part one of my conversation with Diane Francis—the U.S.-born Canadian journalist, entrepreneur, professor, and author of 10 books—I wrote of her incomparable skill at “uncovering the intersection of power, money, and corruption.”

If the 2024 general election were held tomorrow, President Joe Biden would probably lose to former President Donald Trump.

The New Deal reshaped American life. President Franklin Roosevelt’s signature programs turned our federal republic into a national one, made welfare a central duty of the national government, and regulated businesses and citizens in ways and to an extent previously unimaginable.