The birth of the Republican Party through Reconstruction The termRepublicanwas adopted in 1792 by supporters ofThomas Jefferson, who favored a decentralized government with limited powers. Although Jefferson’s political philosophy is consistent with the outlook of the modern Republican Party, his faction...
However, the sixth president was plagued by accusations of corruption and became a casualty of a shifting political climate. His National Republican party had lost clout during his presidency, and the fact that most states had since shifted to a popular vote of electors, rather than state legisl...
neither literally nor figuratively. Donald Trump engineered her ouster and installed his handpicked replacements, including his daughter-in-law and Michael Whatley, a right-wing attorney who was part of the Bush recount team during the contested 2000 presidential...
While the human rights abuses at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib by the Bush administration have been exposed, documented and condemned by the world, similar abuses of Muslims in India's "war on terror" have gone largely unnoticed. There appears to be a conspiracy of silence by the world media w...
Laura Bush, the wife of former President George W. Bush, was cited by the highest number of experts as someone who could have accomplished more during her stint in the White House. And Hillary Clinton, by a wide margin, was identified as the first lady who could most easily step into th...