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Ronald L. Feinman

Ronald L. Feinman received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate School in 1975. His dissertation advisor was Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Dr. Feinman is the author of “Twilight of Progressivism: The Western Republican Senators and the New Deal” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981) and “Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama” (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015, Paperback Edition 2017). In addition to this blog, Dr. Feinman has blogged at TheProgressiveProfessor.com since 2008 and is a political and historical Commentator on Radio Station WWGH, 107.1 FM, Marion, Ohio. Dr. Feinman has spent nearly a half century as Professor of American History, Government and Politics and is still teaching a US Presidency class at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida every Fall and Spring term.

  • Jul 31, 2020

    Prepare for Massive Turnover on the Supreme Court in the Next Four Years

    by Ronald L. Feinman

    Age, health, and political calculations about securing an ideologically sympathetic replacement could prompt as many as six Supreme Court Justices to leave the court in the next four-year presidential term. Who names their replacements will shape the court for a generation.

  • Jul 2, 2020

    The Youngest History-Makers in the U.S. Senate

    by Ronald L. Feinman

    Although he seeks to become the oldest first-term president in US history, Joe Biden began his career in national office at the youngest age allowed for a US Senator. 

  • Mar 4, 2020

    Eleven Jewish Presidential Contenders

    by Ronald L. Feinman

    The Presidential Election of 2020 has seen the rise of a number of Jewish presidential contenders in the Democratic Party. One of them remains in the race, and might very well be the challenger to President Donald Trump in the fall.

  • Feb 11, 2020

    Who Deserves the Credit for a Good Economy?

    by Ronald L. Feinman

    Clearly, Donald Trump has benefited from what is now the longest economic expansion in American history. The unemployment rate has dropped to as low as 3.4 percent. The question that lingers is who deserves the credit?