Shortly after Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration in January of 2009, the White House moved to name numerous high-ranking officials to oversee top policy priorities of the executive branch. These leading...
The Progressives
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The beginning of the modern American welfare state is generally associated with the War on Poverty and the Great Society programs initiated by President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. That said, many of President...
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Building upon President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression, in the mid-1960s President Lyndon B. Johnson created the "Great Society." Under that name, social and economic legislation was passed...
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Social Justice -- although this little phrase glibly slips off the tongue of many an individual, its ambiguity and explosive political nature can often cause profound confusion about the concept’s true meaning. Indeed, as one...
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The era since World War II has seen dramatic changes in a variety of areas for American society. Many of those changes make a profound and deep impact on the nation’s future, but probably none so much as the changes...
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Eugenics represents a shameful period in the United States' history. The progressive idea that technocrats in government could improve society and cure social evils encouraged many scientists and policymakers to look...
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The foundational pillars of American education had already begun to crack by the mid-1800s, but they did not come crashing down until the rise of the Progressives at the turn of the 20th century, arguably led by the...