One prevailing stereotype of a political assassin is someone with strong convictions: John Wilkes Booth, for example, who is thought to have shot Abraham Lincoln because he was a Confederate ...

No politician in modern history has held as much sway over his base as President Donald Trump. And perhaps nothing has mattered more to his political career than that.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth highlights the United States' "Drone Dominance" push to equip the military with a massive quantity ...

The American republic began in 1789, but it took a while for leaders and voters alike to organize themselves within a national framework, a process that would transform the nature of politics. Mass ...

Most people’s mental image of a politician bears no resemblance to an artist. Politicians have traditionally been perceived as people in business attire standing behind podiums giving speeches to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. is in a new era of political violence — one that feels starker than any since the fraught days of 1968, ...

The 1886 Tennessee gubernatorial race between brothers Alf and Bob Taylor, known as the War of the Roses, was a remarkably civil campaign. Despite their differing political affiliations, the brothers ...

A s the culture wars have continued to generate ever more intensely conflictual rhetoric, identity politics and “identitarianism” have come in for widespread criticism — not merely from conservatives ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Fifty Octobers ago, in ...

Exploring the Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum. The Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, reveals how ...