California's farmers bought Trump's election pitch. Now they may pay the price in tariffs, a trade war and immigration raids.

The Democrats are doubling down on dumb, but are they really that dumb? I submit it's worse than that. The Democratic Party ...

For millions of Americans, her hop up onto a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun and the click of a camera transformed actress ...

Younger people have told me that Kamala Harris’s defeat felt like 2016 squared. Her loss took me back to 1972, ...

Trump may be the oldest man elected president, but he leads a youth movement that will shape politics for decades to come.

When presidential candidates like Eugene McCarthy (1968) and George McGovern (1972) are even remotely close to the levers of power, they are dispatched by the system by various means by the ...

Tactically, they’ve moved very little from the 1972 George McGovern platform to, approximately, the 1988 Michael Dukakis campaign. In that latter year, the late Buddy MacKay lost a U.S. Senate ...

While walking through the majestic, grassy meadows of San Francisco’s Presidio, a bronze, a 32-inch-tall statue of a wise Jedi master guards an otherwise nondescript office building. The Yoda statue, ...

The burglary took place on June 17, 1972. At the time of the break-in there was no chance that McGovern could prevail at the polls in November. Nothing about the burglary caused Nixon to receive ...

Stung by defeat, in 1972 Democrats tried to embrace democracy by giving primaries more weight — but wound up with a candidate, George McGovern, who lost in a 49-state blowout. Jimmy Carter ...