Lyndon B. Johnson

Foto en Blanco y negro del Presidente Kennedy y su esposa rodeados de musicos.

La conquista del voto latino en las elecciones presidenciales: Una historia de larga data

Every 30 Seconds

En su apuesta por la Casa Blanca en 1960, la campaña presidencial de John F. Kennedy atrajo a los latinos, que fueron esencialmente ignorados por otros candidatos. Él fue un visionario al reconocer a los votantes latinos como una fuerza creciente en la política estadounidense.

Outclassing the Mad Men

Arts, Culture & Media
Sens. Morse and Fulbright

The 1966 Fulbright hearings on Vietnam parted the curtains on President Johnson’s conduct of the war

Conflict

Is Indiana’s strict voter ID law disenfranchising immigrant voters?

Global Politics
The World

Americans struggle as poverty rises

Fears of global population boom overblown, some argue

Development & Education

The United Nations estimates Earth’s population will reach 10 billion by 2100, which has some worrying whether we’re reaching capacity. Others point out that population growth is slowing and are encouraging responsible resource consumption.

VIDEO: Obama visits Australia, announces new military base there

As China seeks to assert itself in Asia, President Barack Obama visited Australia to announce deeper ties between the nations’ militaries, including a new Marine base for the United States. The move was seen as a counter-balance against China’s growing presence.

Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in what could be a landmark Supreme Court ruling regarding the state of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The act, first signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, was a major piece of civil rights legislation aiming to reverse a practice that long disenfranchised black Americans. Today a key […]

The World

Anti-war democrats

Global Politics

As the Democratic Convention gets underway in Denver, The World’s Matthew Bell examines the on-going tensions between the Obama campaign and the anti-war faction of the Democratic Party.