Lyndon Baines Johnson

From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon and more: meddling, fixing, rigging, fraud, and violence.

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past record, is not always what you get from a president once in power.

The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation.

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

Trump campaigns like Richard Nixon and George Wallace, but in reality, he is Lyndon Johnson: a man who has lost control of the machine.

Reflections on the problems with progressives’ central principle that activist government is the only mechanism able to solve a modern society’s problems.

A review of "Great Society: A New History," by Amity Shlaes.

Lizabeth Cohen on the poverty and prosperity of the American city.

How the region switched from being the stronghold of one party to the base of its adversary.

The Alaska earthquake that put Washington in charge of natural disasters.

Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.

Liberal politicians should trumpet a vision of masculinity that incorporates the best qualities of LBJ and Humphrey.

Hubert Humphrey and the unmaking of Cold War liberalism.

How the entertainer was blacklisted for standing up to the President.

On the 50th anniversary of RFK's death, a glimpse inside one of his closest relationships.

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.

Fifty years after President Johnson signed it into law, the bill has failed to create an integrated society.

The Democratic leader believed that the ordinary American was open to a message of collective responsibility and common purpose.

A new history recovers the forgotten legacy and radical implications of the Kerner Commission.

Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis 50 years ago to help 1,300 black sanitation workers on strike. Ozell Ueal was one of them.