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The donkey’s association with the Democratic Party traces back ... the connection was cemented by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. In his 1870 Harper’s Weekly cartoon, “A Live Jackass ...

President Trump would like to run the country without having to deal with Congress, interfering judges or the rule of law.

Have you ever wondered where America’s political ... the days of Democratic president Andrew Jackson. But it was Nast’s revival of the Democratic donkey in his Jan. 18, 1870 cartoon, shown ...

Collectively, not unlike the best editorial cartoons. So when Ann went ... They used to call it the one-party press, and it wasn’t the Democratic Party. . . . Once they start putting down ...

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His second inauguration had just occurred and the speeches were barely over when Donald Trump pardoned pretty much all of the ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Trump has shown an affinity with many of the little guys — what he called in 2017 "the forgotten men and women." But he also ...

Joe Biden emerged from a crowded 2020 Democratic ... party. Instead of setting off 12 years of party control like Reagan did, Dems eked out just four, and now risk finding themselves in the ...