Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

Although, the Democrats (DNC) and the Republicans (GOP) are presently the two dominant political parties in the USA, our country has additional political parties. These include the Green Party, the ...

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

Days after Buchanan took office, the United States Supreme Court handed down one of its most infamous rulings - the Dred ...

Historian Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted the winner in nearly every one of the past 10 U.S. presidential elections.

Everyone knows the two major players in American politics: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. At all elections ...

According to two demographers, we’re approaching a new generational cycle and this has implications for investors.

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

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I’m Paul Kane, senior congressional correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post, and my guest today is Dana Milbank. He is an author. He is an opinion columnist here at The Post and, most ...

A crowd attended Wednesday’s Luzerne County Election Board meeting to weigh in on the elimination of mail ballot drop boxes ...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” — ...