Lyndon Baines Johnson

As Democrats debate whether Joe Biden should stay in the race against Trump, LBJ’s often misunderstood example looms.

But it didn’t work out for their parties.

For years, LBJ was reviled for Vietnam. Then the historical tables turned in his direction. But they turned a little too far.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

How and why did Johnson consider American military involvement in Vietnam a worthwhile cause that would benefit American interests and American lives?

On a presidential paper trail.

Was his disdain for his vice president greater than his desire for Democrats to win?

For unpopular presidents, the State of the Union is a minefield.

It wasn't some radical left-wing pipedream. It was moderate; and it worked.

The PBS documentary on America’s most futile conflict is missing one explosive document. Every president should absorb its chilling lessons.

Today, nearly 2.2 million Americans are behind bars. Can contemporary mass incarceration's roots be traced to LBJ's Great Society?

A law designed to repair flaws in the fabric of American justice also created new ones.

The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.

Lyndon B. Johnson's visionary set of legislation turns 50 years old.

Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

Lyndon Johnson and the events in Dallas.

Is this America?

It is hard not to figure the 1968 election as inaugurating the cultural and political polarisation of the American electorate so evident today.

Joe Biden is hardly the first president who has decided not to seek a second term—but the circumstances this time are unique.

On (not) voting.