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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.

A shower in the evening." In the years ahead, Fenwick and his successors would fend with the Know Nothing Party, an anti-Catholic political party that rose from the ashes of the Whigs. Matthew ...

In an 1848 speech, then first-term Rep. Abraham Lincoln (Whig-Ill.) rebutted Democratic criticisms that the Whigs were hiding under the “military coattail” of their presidential nominee ...

I’m old enough to remember when most Republicans and Democrats — and maybe even Greens, Communists, Whigs, Libertarians and Know Nothings — would stop with one question. Have you ever ...

More latterly, he’s sat down to chat with bands like the slightly more erudite Manic Street Preachers, Afghan Whigs, Rush and Marillion.