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

The 1860 presidential election helped to change that ... He followed Lincoln to a speech at the courthouse and left “very ...

Ahead of Inauguration Day, when Trump will officially become the 47th President of the U.S., political scientists are already ...

The essence of America has always been the battle over its essence. No one election has ever determined its complete or ...

As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant cartoon appeared in the Harper’s Weekly ...

The American republic of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe is not the republic ...

Moderates have been largely squeezed out of political relevance by acrimonious polarization ... A Centrist Party wouldn’t be competitive everywhere in the U.S., just as the 1860 Republicans weren’t ...

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 ...

It’s not that we’ll lose America if Donald Trump wins a second term. The United States will endure. But his victory might mark the end of one republic and the start of another, although “republic” may ...

In 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term. Federal finance reports ...

I am reminded of the words of a first century carpenter-turned-rabbi who said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” ...

“This will be one of the most important elections in American history,” said Jack Pitney, a professor of political science at ...