With the Democratic National Convention starting in Chicago this week, we take a look at the history of political organizations in the U.S. There were no political conventions in the U.S. until 1831, ...
Heated elections, fraught presidential transitions, and strategic maneuvering for lame-duck appointments are nothing new in ...
The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...
History of U.S. political parties Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., general editor Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...
Elon Musk isn’t the first wealthy businessman to propose a third political party in the U.S. How his "America Party" will compare to other third parties in U.S. history remains to be seen. A day after ...
Daniel Schlozman is associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History; and coauthor of ...
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