Lyndon Baines Johnson

How the law became a staging ground for unrestrained war.

Before going to the press, Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.

Decades of evidence reveals that work requirements for food assistance leave people hungry and hurt the economy. But supporting them remains good politics.

Anna Rosenberg had massive influence in American politics for 40 years. Remembering her story offers a guide for solving problems today.

We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office. But we know little about his four decades with Kissinger Associates.

How America gave up on housing equality.

We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.

The lessons of the past for suburban affordable housing advocates.

Revelations about secret government programs after Kennedy’s assassination increased the power of conspiracy theories.

It’s nearly impossible to separate modern-day gun laws from race.

Police champions have long wielded new technology as a tool to project authority and legitimacy, while deflecting criticism.

Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy publicly apologized after restaurants refused to serve Black representatives of newly independent nations.

A new book calls white evangelicals to reckon with the fact that the groundwork for their movement was laid, in part, by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI.

Revisiting "When Affirmative Action Was White," nearly two decades on.

Did you know that there was a hidden utopia of formerly enslaved people located in the mountains of Appalachia?

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

The investigative committee singles out Trump for his role in the attack. As prosecution, the report is thorough. But as historical explanation it’s a mess.

The FBI’s first director built the agency around some of his own worst instincts.

The FBI’s successful campaign against white supremacists is also a cautionary tale.