When John Quincy Adams was informed by a committee that he was elected president by the House of Representatives, for the first and only time through the procedure set by the 12th Amendment of the […]
One way to look at this election is as a repudiation of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Democrats held 235 seats in the House in 2018 as Biden launched his campaign for president. To the […]
If Democrats take a drubbing in the off-year elections — and it seems increasingly likely, but not certain, that they will — it will be because they lost their moorings when the country seemed to […]
It was just a mini headline nationally on primary night this month, but one with some national implications and historic resonance. The city of Detroit, 77% of whose residents are black, according to the 2020 […]
It’s the biggest political hoax since Titus Oates’s allegations of a “Popish Plot” to assassinate King Charles II in 1678. Oates’s charge of a Jesuit conspiracy swept through London and led to the execution of […]
The nation’s largest state has just voted in an election triggered by one of the nation’s weirdest recall processes, and the results have come out just about where they’ve been before. California Gov. Gavin Newsom […]
Are we witnessing the feminization of America? And if so, is that a good or bad thing, or is it, like so many quiet but ineluctable trends, a combination of the two? Perceptions of feminization […]
“This is now on track,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday, “to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.” On the process of bringing American citizens, Afghan partners and allies out, she […]
Will Gov. Gavin Newsom be the second Democratic California governor to be recalled and removed from office in this (or the last) century? Polls suggest that’s one possible result of next month’s recall election. If […]
Why do I feel that I have seen this movie before? I would like to think that learning is cumulative. But I’m beginning to think that every generation or two, people need to learn all […]
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