The bitter 1800 presidential election tested the democratic structure ... Republican Party ticket against the Federalist Party’s incumbent President John Adams and running mate Charles Pinckney. As ...

Governor Kathy Hochul came up a big winner on Election Night, receiving public praise from her fellow Democrats for creating ...

Madison, who preferred direct election of the president, addressed what he regarded as a foundational weakness in our ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is seeking to move up the start of his trial on corruption and bribery charges so he can focus ...

Decision Day has become divisive but in Dr. Sarah Purcell’s history class at Grinnell College students learn it is hardly ...

Voters approved five of the six initiatives on the 2024 ballot, enshrining abortion rights into the state Constitution and giving Eric Adams more power in NYC.

Unseating Eric Adams as mayor of New York was a hot topic at a political gathering in Puerto Rico, as Democrats reflected on ...

Explore the Electoral College, a system that elects the U.S. president. Learn about its history, process, and how it differs from popular vote.

The 2024 election has finally ended. What happens now? There’s a 2½-month period between Election Day and Inauguration Day.

Democracy, the grand American experiment in which the people ruled through their elected representatives, died on Nov. 6, ...

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual and even unique in ways that ...