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Cheney says Abraham Lincoln lost Senate and House elections before becoming president

Dissident Republican denied party’s nomination for Congress after feeling the wrath of Trump

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney will be looking for her next act in public life after being rejected by the Cowboy State’s Republican voters Tuesday. And regardless of whether there’s another run for elected office, Cheney seems sure to be driven by her crusade to keep former President Donald Trump far away…

At the worst moment of division and carnage in American history, we still had midterm elections to get through

Here we go again. Another county — this time San Bernardino — is threatening to break away from California to form its own state. Petitions and plots of this sort pop up almost annually but then invariably fizzle. Yet however quixotic state division may seem, it has a much deeper,…

Attorney John J. Hamill argues in a recent op-ed that besides defending the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, everything else can be accepted as legitimate disagreement. Is white supremacy in the “wrong” category or is it an “honest difference of opinion?”

American Prophet, focusing on the abolitionist, orator and polymath, is the latest marker of a Douglass renaissance in popular culture

Here are a few glaring omissions in not just our history and science books, but also in our geography and recipe books, so that future generations of the world’s most populous country are educated right

And How It Can Start Winning Again

What we heard from Jamie Raskin and Jason Van Tatenhove this week was crucial public education. Will it be enough?

Political conflict over the Supreme Court’s direction is raging in the aftermath of two sweeping rulings in the court’s most recent term, one which expanded individual gun rights and the other which removed constitutional protection for abortion. Those rulings were the product of a conservative majority made more muscular and…