US lawmakers urged the Biden administration in a hearing on Wednesday to intensify efforts to secure the release of Americans allegedly unjustly detained in China. Representative Chris Smith and ...

Note: The year 1884 included a particularly contentious presidential election between Democrat Grover Cleveland and Republican James G. Blaine. The election was a bedlam of endless rumors, mudslinging ...

British Columbians are voting in the next provincial election on Oct. 19. The NDP is hoping to hold on to power, while those ...

The U.S. was created so that civil society could flourish without obsessing over the government. Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the lack of authority over the self-governed American function and ...

The delegates’ creation of a unique and cumbersome method of selecting the president, one not used to elect any other governmental official, was born of complex considerations ...

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, One Vote? on PBS.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

The Broadway cast of Hamilton headed back to the recording booth to update the musical track "The Election of 1800" leading up to Election Day.

ATS.io compiled and ranked the five biggest poll-defying U.S. presidential election upsets since 1872 using data from Sports ...

The first Black woman elected to the Senate, Democratic Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1992, served a single term.

Amid the explosion of legal gambling in the U.S., some things have remained off-limits, including betting on the outcome of U ...