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Bill Moyers, who has died aged 91, was a young Baptist minister who became White House press secretary to President Lyndon ...
Johnson added a monumental new institution to his Great Society: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a “miracle in ...
Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting ...
Can it be a coincidence, or merely a case of synchronicity, that in the age of Trump — a decade-long epoch that began in 2015 ...
Our times and our politics have changed. But that need for stories and what they reveal about ourselves and our world never ...
NASA was a mere passenger. Musk has crowded low Earth orbit with satellites (nearly 8,000) that are becoming indispensable to ...
Persistence, timing and speed were keys to Daugherty's success in Washington with the AP. Hearing that Johnson was writing a speech on a Saturday in the spring of 1968, Daugherty badgered a press aide ...
There are 20 house museums and landmarks in Historic Germantown including Cliveden, the site of the Revolutionary War’s Battle of Germantown and Historic Fair Hill, a 300-year-old Quaker burial ground ...
Great Society, Meet Cruelty: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare Bill into law while former President Harry S. Truman, whom Johnson praised as "the real daddy of Medicare," observes during ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson launched one of the most ambitious experiments in urban policy: the Model Cities Program. As a scholar of housing justice and urban planning, I’ve studied how this ...
The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from ...