In the United States, removing a sitting president is difficult by design. The Constitution provides only two mechanisms for this process: impeachment and the 25th Amendment. Given that the latter option requires cabinet officials to strip power from...
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In the United States, removing a sitting president is difficult by design. The Constitution provides only two mechanisms for this process: impeachment and the 25th Amendment. Given that the latter option requires cabinet officials to strip power from...
Ron Chernow, historian and author of Hamilton (the main influence for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed Broadway musical), recently released a biography of Ulysses S. Grant, Union Commander and later President. The fate of Ulysses is curious indeed, e...
Ron Chernow, historian and author of Hamilton (the main influence for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed Broadway musical), recently released a biography of Ulysses S. Grant, Union Commander and later President. The fate of Ulysses is curious indeed, e...
Apart from its romanticization in The West Wing, political speechwriting in the United States gets little public attention. The ghost writers responsible for some of the most widely quoted political speeches in history are, perhaps deliberately...
Apart from its romanticization in The West Wing, political speechwriting in the United States gets little public attention. The ghost writers responsible for some of the most widely quoted political speeches in history are, perhaps deliberately...
With just over twelve months remaining for the Obama administration, the public’s attention has been focused on the president’s legacy. This summer, Obama was hailed as the anti-lame duck; he garnered congressional support in passing the Trans-Pa...
With just over twelve months remaining for the Obama administration, the public’s attention has been focused on the president’s legacy. This summer, Obama was hailed as the anti-lame duck; he garnered congressional support in passing the Trans-Pa...
Art by Emily Reif There’s a general understanding amongst the members of the American public that midterm elections are not, for most presidents, terribly pleasant. Much like the reevaluation that sometimes follows a daring decision to consume dodg...
Art by Emily Reif There’s a general understanding amongst the members of the American public that midterm elections are not, for most presidents, terribly pleasant. Much like the reevaluation that sometimes follows a daring decision to consume dodg...
Hillary Clinton’s 2008 primary run took a bite out of the expectation that she would receive a substantial chunk of the female vote: Clinton scraped up 50% of women’s votes, but that 0-percentage-point margin wasn’t enough to help her topple th...
Hillary Clinton’s 2008 primary run took a bite out of the expectation that she would receive a substantial chunk of the female vote: Clinton scraped up 50% of women’s votes, but that 0-percentage-point margin wasn’t enough to help her topple th...
The past two presidential elections have highlighted the demographic problems the GOP faces on the national stage. Defeat in 2012 showed Republicans that relying on a shrinking base of aging white voters is not the recipe for victory in today’s Ame...
The past two presidential elections have highlighted the demographic problems the GOP faces on the national stage. Defeat in 2012 showed Republicans that relying on a shrinking base of aging white voters is not the recipe for victory in today’s Ame...