Lyndon Baines Johnson

In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against signature victories for racial equality in America.

States with homogenous populations spend more on the safety net than those with higher shares of minorities.

What historian William Appleman Williams taught us about foreign policy and the good society.

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.

Countries around the world participated in the 1976 bicentennial, in a turning point for US soft power.

Relatives of voting-rights activists warn that the recent Callais v. Louisiana decision risks undoing hard-fought civil-rights victories.

It turns out he’s still alive, and still teaching at Fordham Law. We had some questions about an amendment that wasn’t written to meet a moment like this.