Stocks were on course for a banner day amid signs of progress on inflation. The Dow rose 700 points, and the Nasdaq jumped 2%. Fresh inflation data looks to keep the Fed on hold this month — but it ...

Decades later, the connection was cemented by political ... The Republican Party’s iconic elephant also owes its origins to Nast’s work. In his 1874 cartoon, “The Third-Term Panic ...

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 ...

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

But such sporadic demonstrations of sanity are not the real reason for his exaggerated popularity on the right. The Shrekian ...

First responders were still retrieving dead bodies from the icy waters of the Potomac River when President Donald Trump ...

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

The only time I ever had a cartoon ... Republican newspapers would have liberal cartoonists. I mean, most newspapers were conservative back when I started, honestly. They used to call it the one ...

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Republican plans to slash Medicaid remind me of the Peanuts cartoon character Charlie Brown who is always on the verge of kicking the football before it gets yanked away. In order to fund President ...