Pomerantsev: In Louisiana in the 1930s, the governor of the state, Huey Long, became, in the words of a contemporary, “the ...

Per reports, sounds of machine gun fire filled the Capitol. A few minutes later, Long was found stumbling down the stairs ...

Nearly a century after his death, the Kingfish is making a comeback. Fans of the late Louisiana politician Huey P. Long can be found across the partisan divide, with populist conservatives and ...

Huey Long’s rise to power began with his election to the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He ran a surprisingly strong race for the gubernatorial nomination in 1924 when only thirty years old, but ...

The view that the Protestant version of the 10 Commandments is the basis of our law requires willful ignorance of our actual ...

Louisiana’s Huey Long built his remarkable career as governor and U.S. Senator on a platform of social reform and justice, all the while employing graft and corruption to get what he wanted.

Last week Louisiana treated the nation to a Legislative spectacle the like of which oldsters had not seen since carpetbag days. As usual, at the centre of the spectacle, was Huey Pierce Long ...

At 450 feet tall, the Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest ... It was commissioned in 1930 by Governor Huey Long – one of the state's most controversial political figures – who was nearly ...

On Sept. 8, 1935, Louisiana Sen. Huey P. Long was doing what Huey P. Long did in his heyday — running the state — when a ...