© Wikimedia Commons | Whoever wins, will it make any difference to the wine quality? By now the excitement should be almost over, the results will be coming in and you'll have some idea who will wear the mantle of most powerful person on earth. But how powerful are they really?
Tyler watched theelection of Abraham Lincolnin 1860 with deep displeasure. “The day of doom for the great model republic is at hand,”he wrote. Southerners agreed with Tyler. Before long, rumbles of secession filled the country. However, Tyler, to his credit, initially tried to prevent vi...
The spate of much-publicized post-election pilgrimages into the “heartland” by Mark Zuckerberg as self-defined coastal elites sought to find”normal America” needs to be rethought: it seems to project a creation of the very infographics we’ve long consumed to understand democracy, or as a ...
OpEdNews Series: Presidential Election 2016Wikimedia Commons
United States Presidential Election of 2016 was an American presidential election held on November 8, 2016, in which Republican Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton but won the electoral college to become the 45th president of t
Trump was the first president to lose re-election since George H. W. Bush in 1992. Key to Biden's victory were his wins in the Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which Trump narrowly carried in 2016 and whose combined 46 electoral votes were ...
The "final lesson," Brother Robert wrote, was "the importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes." (1964 Election) (To Mike Mansfield)In 1965, I'll be damned everywhere as a Communist appeaser. But I don't care. If I tried to pull out completely now, we would have ...
The presidential election is only a week away, and the early voting numbers this year have already shattered records of the past election of 2016. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens on the evening of Nov 3. In the meantime, however, we are bringing you the top 10 ...
After winning the national election, Obama appointed Clinton secretary of state. She was sworn in as part of his cabinet in January 2009 and served until 2013. In the spring of 2015, she announced her plans to run again for the U.S. presidency. In 2016, she became the first woman in ...
WikiLeaks has released three classified CIA espionage orders revealing details of an alleged seven-month long spying campaign by the agency ahead of the 2012 French presidential election. The documents disclose that all of France’s major political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA'...