Lyndon Baines Johnson

It has stifled suffrage, blamed immigrants for chaos, and suppressed civil rights. It's also how Donald Trump views the entire world.

The 52-year-old federal program's successes reflect a complex legacy

Fighting over immigration is central to the American story.

An analysis of the Carnegie Commission's 1967 report shows that public broadcasting has always been a politically fraught issue.

Elizabeth Hinton discusses how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.

Senator Fred Harris describes his experience on the Kerner Commission, tasked with explaining the causes of urban riots in 1967.

The story of an unofficial, integrated delegation from Mississippi that attempted to claim seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention and was denied.

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.

The conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Report portrayed race relations like no other report in history.

An analysis of the significance, unintended consequences, and implications ofthe 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act fifty years later.

Four changes are especially important when we try to measure changes in the poverty rate since 1964.

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women’s issues and gay rights.

A 1964 presidential campaign advertisement for Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Special Group and PFIAB meeting minutes provide dramatic view of CIA operations.

How East New York was ransacked by the real estate industry and abandoned by the city in the process.

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?

For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.

Presidents can't shutter an agency Congress created by statute. Only Congress has this power.

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.