President Lyndon Johnson

The American Promise: The Right to Vote

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.09.2012

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Marian Wright Edelman

Right now many states are attempting to put new voting restrictions in place that parallel all the old tricks and turn back the clock on civil rights to the days when voting was used as a tool for political control and exclusion.

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Soda, Surplus, and Food Stamps: A Short History

Daniel Bowman Simon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Bowman Simon

Lately there has been a lot of hoopla in the Big Apple about the federal food stamp program, now officially known by the snappy acronym SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). Everybody, it seems, has an opinion.

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WWJD: What Would Johnson Do?

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aaron Zelinsky

Lyndon Johnson understood that legislative majorities are fundamentally impermanent, and that political capital should be spent rather than dissipated. Obama should take a page from his book.

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Lyndon Johnson's Thoughts on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Leigh Solomon

And so I had to ask myself, if Lyndon were alive today, what he would make of Obama's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize? Knowing Lyndon it would probably be unprintable.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lauri Lyons

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Afghanistan: Presidential Double Standards and Military Power

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

If any president is going to "cut and run" from an American military engagement he or she better be a Republican. This narrative runs deep in American political discourse.

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