The Republicans, then, is the tale of a political organization that was founded on virtuous principles becoming corrupted by its desire to retain power. Gould's compelling account of the first decade of the Republican organization sets the tone for his larger project. The Republican Party was ...
The Republican party was originally founded in the mid-1800s to oppose immigration and the spread of slavery, says David Goldfield, whose new book on American politics, The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good, comes out in November. “The Republican party was strictly a sectional party...
FILE - Audience members listen to Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speak during a town hall, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in Ankeny, Iowa. Former President Donald Trump was the first choice of 51% of likely Iowa caucus participants in a Des Moines Register-NBC News-Mediacom Iowa Poll...
A facade of republican governance was maintained, but many Romans, associating it with chaos and instability, willingly traded their political rights to escape oligarchic rule, violence, and uncertainty. When rumors spread of Octavian relinquishing his special powers, public sentiment opposed the idea....
◆The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is an outgrowth of the National Captive Nations Committee founded by the Ukrainian nationalist Lev Dobriansky. Its co-chairman, Yaroslav Stetsko, was a senior leader of the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), a fasc...
LaCivita, meanwhile, noted another wild card: Trump, he said, “is very keen on New York,” the heavily Democratic state where the former president was born, raised and anchored his real estate, marketing and reality television success. New York last went for a Republican pr...
there was: “a disproportionate focus and unending hostility towards Israel” (the US’s major ally in the Middle East). UNHRC was also raising concerns about the US’s own human rights abuses in Guantanamo Bay, refugee camps on theSouthern borders and the world’s largest prison population....
◆The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is an outgrowth of the National Captive Nations Committee founded by the Ukrainian nationalist Lev Dobriansky. Its co-chairman, Yaroslav Stetsko, was a senior leader of the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), a fasc...
The organization was founded in secrecy with a small group of fellow businessmen who loathed the New Deal and believed they had a mission from God to stop the vast communist conspiracy that had infiltrated both political parties. At the beginning, the Birchers lay low; they mostly recruited ...
Theresulting endorsementwas something of a coup for Harris, in large part because Schwarzenegger’s distaste for both the Republican and Democratic parties speaks directly to the cohort of Americans the Harris campaign is targeting. Schwarzenegger’s deeply nuanced write-up is part of w...