Whoa. Where did 2018 go? I guess it doesn’t matter. It’s nearly done now. To celebrate, here are ten of my favorite stories from ICYI over the past twelve months, in no particular order.
Brett Kavanaugh’s Drinking Problem
Join, or Die, America’ First Meme
All the LGBT Books Around My House
Lyndon Johnson Hated The Graduate
16 Posters By Graphic Great Lester Beall
The Incredible Arthur Ellerman
Found in the LOC: A Cat’s Autobiography
Lyndon Johnson’s greatest presidential legacy was by far the Great Society, a series of New Deal-inspired initiatives expanding social and cultural services in America — public broadcasting, national endowment for the arts, and Medicare and Medicaid were all part of his circa 1964-1965 program. Some of his efforts were successful; others fell short, such as Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” which many, including Martin Luther King Jr., described as a “war on the poor,” especially people of color, for all its inadequacies, inequalities, and impotencies.
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