Ever since she ascended as the presidential nominee of her party, Vice President Kamala Harris has been riding a wave of ...

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Time now for “The Last of the Whigs” - Millard Fillmore. Prior to becoming the 13th president, Fillmore practiced law in New ...

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Gen Z voters hardly remember what came before Trump. Soon it may be harder to remember American politics without them. Susan McWilliams Barndt is a politics professor at Pomona College.

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I ask my political science students, “What is your earliest political memory?” I pose the question to figure out what ...

Eric and Eliot provide their thumbnail review of the Trump-Harris debate and then welcome their special guest Lindsay ...

The term “coattail” has been around since the 1600s, but it wasn’t until the mid-20th century that it was used in the political context to describe a president’s ability to ...

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Boston experienced election fever 184 years ago when the Whig Convention came to town. The Bishop of Boston Benedict Joseph Fenwick was in attendance and wrote about the hubbub brought by thousands of ...