July phone conversation between Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump allegedly tied Ukrainian military aid to personal political favors. The White House later released a reconstructedtranscriptof the phone call, which many Democrats argued demonstrated that Trump had violated the ...
By 1837, some of the less-than-loyal Senate Democrats who had voted for Jackson’s censure in 1834 had resigned or been replaced by diehard Jacksonians. In the final days of Jackson’s second term, the Senate took the unprecedented step of expunging Jackson’s censure from the official con...
Obama selected Biden over Hillary Clinton, who many Democrats had hoped would end up as Obama’s running mate. Republicans also pointed out that Biden was a vocal critic of Obama’s lack of experience in foreign policy [source: MSNBC]. Biden served in the senate for more than 30 years, ...
When Americans expanded their country west, they interfered with many American Indian Tribes. In a letter he wrote to congress, he explained “This emigration should be voluntary… (but) if they remain within the limits of the states they must be subject to their laws” (Andrew Jackson’s Me...
The slowest form of democide – caused by the destruction of the living planetary environments in which humans dwell – should be the most worrying for democrats of all persuasions everywhere. The anti-democratic effects of environmental degradation should make all democrats nervous. Some of the war...
How will Obama affect other Democrats?: ; Sitting presidents do cast shadows over their partiesDon Surber
Even as many Democrats feel the political debate has moved steadily to the right, the electorate is increasingly likely to see itself as ideologically closer to the Republican Party, writes William Galston. Galston examines what this means for the political atmosphere in Washington and for the pre...
But while some Democrats project confidence, Biden’s allies also say he has spent much of the last two weeks traveling — in Europe and on the West Coast — limiting his ability to prepare. Others note incumbent presidents typically struggle in the season’s opening general election ...
“Some presidents never get any — they last a long time,” Trump said of Supreme Court appointments. “We’ve had three. It’s blowing their minds.” Trump says he’s considering five women for the lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest court. He said he plans to announce his ...
Election Day is typically the end of the contentious fight for the White House. But it could just be the beginning. With both Democrats and Republicans preparing for possible legal fights over the vote count, the post-election process for seating the winner is getting a closer look. ...