He sees illegal immigration as a humanitarian problem, supports police reform, advocates for stricter environmental ...

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

his party, the Whigs, never recovered. Clearly, historical analogizing is tricky, susceptible to charges of round-peg-into-square-hole-shoving. Still, I stand by my analysis. For starters ...

Nerves filled all four floors of Whig Hall as the results of the election were broadcast live to the room during the ...

As the United States approaches the November 5 election, the Democratic Party stands at a historic juncture with Kamala ...

Warren G. Harding won 404 electoral votes. His victory was seen as a reaction against the policies of his predecessor, ...

The leadership of the Whig party persuaded him to run for the presidency in 1850 with New York politician Millard Fillmore as his running mate. Even during the campaign for presidency, Taylor refused ...

It’s usually possible to determine who won an election before the vote counting is 100 percent complete. But doing so ...

The Democratic Party faces existential questions after Donald Trump’s resounding victory. One of the first: Who will lead it?

including the free-soil anti slavery party, the anti-Nebraska movement, and the Whig Party – the erstwhile second largest ...

If there’s any takeaway from our 1890s forebears, it’s that no matter how intense an election feels, life always goes on.