A mericans are headed to the polls today to cast their ballots in a crucial election. People are anxious, hopeful, and scared ...

But I’m struck by the similarities between 2024 and a much earlier election, one of the most consequential in our nation’s ...

The lame-duck period in the US is longer than in other Western democracies, which tend to make the transition over a period ...

Adams made the fateful decision to retain Washington’s Cabinet, seeking to maintain continuity in the two administrations. Unfortunately, a faction in the Federalist Cabinet undermined the new ...

The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers. In fact, the election of 1800 ...

Accusations of foreign interference? Check — John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the candidates in 1800, each thought the other was subservient to a foreign power. The French Revolution divided ...

Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants if elected, a move that has only been invoked three times in the past 225 years.

Those have been amply documented elsewhere. Instead, it is a summary of what led to President John Adams and his Federalist majorities in Congress to target foreign nationals in the U.S. At the ...

The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers.

The 2000 election between Democratic nominee Vice President Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush came down to a ...

America’s struggle with facts versus fabrication and truth versus conspiracy theories has been going on for centuries. Thomas ...