Only in the U.S. can a boy born in a rural Texas farmhouse with no electricity or running water one day grow up to hold the most powerful office in the world. But President Lyndon Baines Johnson ...

On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a crowd of more than 80,000 at the University of Michigan’s football stadium in Ann Arbor. Having taken the oath of office just six months earlier ...

Many of our current domestic disasters stem from a slate of legislation passed six decades ago: President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, which resulted in a disastrous centralization of power in the ...

President Biden is reportedly planning on legislative projects on the scale of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. He and I are both old enough to remember that era, but we have drawn different ...

History could look back on Democrats’ sweeping spending and infrastructure bills in the same fashion as the New Deal programs of the 1930s and Great Society programs of the 1960s. At least that’s what ...

For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work for regular Americans, including the New Deal and the Great Society reforms.