There is an open space for a significant new, centrist political party, created by the pull of the progressive and Donald ...

Moderates have been largely squeezed out of relevance by a combination of polarization, plus the extreme gerrymandering in many states.

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual and even unique in ways that ...

The 1860 presidential election helped to change that, and a studio in Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield led the way. The ...

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The lame-duck period in the US is longer than in other Western democracies, which tend to make the transition over a period ...

In addition, those who cast their first presidential ... states “that form a ribbon from Pennsylvania, through Ohio, Michigan ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

He expanded the nation’s footprint by admitting six western states to the union ... the flag as a reminder that America was ...