Following his public breakup with Donald Trump, Elon Musk has started a political party that could begin by focusing on congressional races.

Popular for his exploits in the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson in 1832 scoffed at a Supreme Court ruling that did not go his way. When Chief Justice John ...

Andrew Cuomo's allies spent a fortune shouting that Zohran Mamdani is a socialist. Result? A Mamdani landslide in the ...

It took a spark to ignite quickly. Liberal Democrats have been grumbling about Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont for more than a ...

Democratic researcher Anat Shenker-Osorio told the New York Times said voters she’s spoken with tell her that Democrats would be the meekest and slowest members of the animal kingdom.

The 19th-century Whigs present an appealing prototype for moderate Democrats seeking a way out of their paralysis and for Republicans impatient with, or horrified by, the Trump ascendancy.

Lincoln wrongly didn't act on the ruling. But, like Jackson, he too backtracked. In 1863 the Congress his party controlled voted to authorize him to suspend habeas corpus as the court required.

“On $20 bill, D (emocrat)s replace Andrew Jackson, a founding father of D Party, w Harriet Tubman, a black, gun-toting, evangelical Christian, R (epublican) woman,” @JohnRLottJr tweeted.

During the presidency of Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), however, the pretense of “merit” was scrapped in favor of a “populist” spoils system in which he hired friends and others loyal to him.

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he reentered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice ...

It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times “the Jacksonian era.” ...