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Gibbs KnottsThe Conversation |
The history of voting and elections in America doesn’t follow a steady path toward progress or retreat. It is marked by intense struggles,...
Though Graham’s appointment may seem unusual, political inheritance has never been fully absent from American democracy.
Sen. Graham repeatedly moved in the direction South Carolina and Republican politics were headed rather than where they had been.
Jackson biographer David Masciotra said the South gave Jackson “a sense of the oppression and the persecution that he wanted to fight.”
Congress has played an important role in holding federal agencies accountable since the late 1700s, but oversight can also devolve into a political...
Gerrymandering has existed since the United States’ earliest days, but now technology and political trends are supercharging it.