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The bitter 1800 presidential election tested the democratic structure of the United States just a few years after the revolution that had created the young nation. The sitting vice president, Thomas ...

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Just a week after winning a full term as Missouri attorney general, Republican Andrew Bailey is reportedly in the running to ...

An influential conservative journalist and commentator isn't pulling any punches in his recent takedown of former Rep. Matt ...

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

Nonetheless, Brook Poston accords Monroe the honor of possessing a shrewdly employed political intelligence aimed at healing the wounding divide between Federalists and Republicans. In the process of ...

After Adams and his Federalist Party allies lost the presidency and Congress to Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republicans in the election of 1800, they packed the federal courts. Adams and ...

There’s a 2½-month period between Election Day and Inauguration Day. It’s commonly known as the “lame-duck” period, when the outgoing president still holds official power but their ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jordan Cash, Michigan State University (THE CONVERSATION) The 2024 election has ...