On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

On Nov. 7, 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first woman elected to either chamber of Congress. In 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution ...

In an op-ed for the 'Boston Globe,' Maxwell Taylor Kennedy shared how his father worked to establish the very social programs ...

Conan O’Brien has millions of fans all across the world, at least one of whom may have pushed Jay Leno down that Pennsylvania hill as payback for the Tonight Show fiasco. Weirdly, it turns out that, ...

Dick Cheney, the divisive US vice-president under George W Bush who helped lead the country into a disastrous invasion of Iraq, died on Monday, his family has said. He was 84. Mr Cheney at various ...

For decades, Democrats have abided by norms Republicans systematically discarded. They have no choice now but to fight back with all the resources they can marshal. The air is thick with talk of ...

A pretext is a false reason for taking a particular, often illegal, action. It hides a questionable motive by concealing it behind something that has the appearance of legitimacy. The Trump ...

Former first lady Michelle Obama says America is not ready for a female president. In a series of recent interviews promoting ...

In the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke," the "Captain" says to Luke (Paul Newman), "What we've got here is a failure to communicate ...

Former first lady Michelle Obama says America is not ready for a female president. In a series of recent interviews promoting her new book, Michelle Obama points to the losses ...

In the 1967 film “Cool Hand Luke,” the “Captain” says to Luke (Paul Newman) “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.