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Topic: Great Society

Lyndon B Johnson, Joe Biden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is a new Progressive era coming?

Chauncey DeVega
Lyndon B Johnson, Joe Biden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden needs to be more like FDR and LBJ

Matthew Rozsa
Chuck Schumer; Nancy Pelosi (Getty/Zach Gibson/Chip Somodevilla)

Why Dems must resist "bipartisanship"

Paul Rosenberg
People protest near a McDonald's restaurant along the Las Vegas Strip, Nov. 29, 2016. (AP/John Locher)

Our cruel Labor Day tradition

Matthew Rozsa
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Lyndon B. Johnson; Barack Obama; Franklin Delano Roosevelt (AP/Bill Allen/Robert Clover/Getty/Scott Olson)

On the greatness of Obamacare

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty Images/Mario Tama)

The GOP Health Bill Mess

Paul Kleyman - New America Media
Lyndon B. Johnson (AP/Charles Tasnadi)

The truth about Lyndon Johnson

Julian Zelizer
Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan, Ted Cruz (AP/Reuters/Tami Chappell/Kevin Lamarque/photo montage by Salon)

The right's Reaganomics trap

Michael Lind
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David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. and Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon B. Johnson in "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

LBJ: Misunderstood by history?

Elias Isquith
Angela McGlowan (Screen shot, Fox News)

Fox News on "slave mentality"

Elias Isquith
Russ Feingold, Sherrod Brown, Elizabeth Warren (Reuters/Larry Downing/AP/Tony Dejak/Joshua Roberts)

America’s next great president

Michael Lind

Obama's Great Society

Joan Walsh
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