A gobsmacking amount of money is spent on federal elections in the US. The credit or blame for that reaches back to a ...

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the Civil War, he was not just changing ...

Abraham Lincoln, America's 16th President, steered the nation through the Civil War, dismantling slavery and preserving the Union. Rising from humble frontier beginnings, his political career ...

Most long-term investors ride out any crashes, but if you want to measure a president’s market impact, you have to decide on starting and ending points. Do you measure from: (1) election day, or (2) ...

In “Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States” (2022), Art Laffer and two other PhD economists ...

Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign and his Greenville roots profoundly shaped American politics. His legacy, however, faces new challenges.

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for ...

Abraham Lincoln won four electoral votes in New Jersey in 1860, with three electors pledged to a fusion ticket that would back one of three Democrats who ...

Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Frank Lautenberg hold the record for the most appearances on a New Jersey general ...

Today marks 10 years since Justice Antonin Scalia passed away at age 79. A programming note: Monday is Presidents Day, and ...

Daley quickly used much of the money to plug budget gaps. Critics have long blasted the deal as a shortsighted fix that stripped Chicago of a valuable public asset — the meters once provided the city ...

From Abraham Lincoln's patent to James A. Garfield's geometry proof, learn how these 19th- and 20th-century commanders in ...