Everything was on the line in the elections of 1860 and 1968, and, as is the case now, no one had a clue who would win going ...

Lake City Elementary 5th graders are getting a lesson centered on the electoral college process of presidential elections.

When reviewing the four-month period from the 1860 election to Lincoln’s inauguration, one can’t help but conclude that the Civil War was completely avoidable. There was no sound cause for ...

The New York Times has endorsed candidates in every U.S. presidential election since 1860, contrary to online posts saying its support for U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election is ...

They don’t really settle anything. Yes, somebody gets elected and somebody else loses, and one party or another is strengthened or weakened in pursuit of its agenda. But in a democracy, the dispute ...

This is the third time The Atlantic has publicly supported the person running against Trump; the two other times it has come out in favor of a candidate were ahead of the 1860 election (Abraham ...

Not even in the 1860 election, on the eve of the US Civil War, when the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln emerged the victor from a four-way contest which featured two rival Democrats.

because it is the most important election since 1860. About the Author My understanding of politics, economics, geopolitics, political theory is grounded in my undergraduate and graduate study of ...

What happens now will entirely depend on how much tolerance each side will have as a result of who is elected. If either side turns the result of the election into violent actions, the country could ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

but there is no question in my mind that this is the most important election of my lifetime, and probably the most important since 1860 when Abraham Lincoln was elected to the presidency and the ...