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There have been months of campaigning both sides, but what happens if neither of them is the clear winner?

“My mother was great. She was a Stornoway,” Donald Trump confusingly told an American podcast earlier this month ...

And he called Elon Musk 'Leon' at Wisconsin campaign rally, sparking renewed questions about his mental acuity

Throughout American history, freedom has been defined, in large measure, by its limits

People change their opinions. As my husband says, “I always reserve the right to get smarter,” paraphrasing Konrad Adenauer, the former chancellor of Germany.

Group also challenged right of Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley to appear on Republican primary ballots

Many observers say a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision from July 1, 2024, turns presidents into kings – but they underestimate how truly radical the ruling actually may be. In fact, though the court’s majority said it was honoring constitutional tradition, it appears to have created something entirely new: a…

Pennsylvania’s role as a swing state in presidential elections is a modern continuation of a characteristic noted as early as 1802. At a rally celebrating the election victory of President Thomas Jefferson, Pennsylvania was reportedly referred to as “the keystone of the federal union” – a keystone being the central…

Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too. They’re self-described “scavengers” of the physical objects that make…