During Bush’s first term, Rove seemed to have a good chance of achieving his goal. The president’s resolute response to the ...

W hy has Donald Trump become an ardent admirer of a predecessor most Americans know little or nothing about? “President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and t ...

Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching direction. When the Republican Party was ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...

Their graves were mostly bare the day I visited — a fitting reminder of how the DFL Party has also neglected its traditional ...

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

In 1896, the “pops” decided not to run a candidate of their own for two reasons. One is that the Democratic nominee, William Jennings Bryan, adopted important parts of the Populist platform.

The high point for those movements had come in 1896, when an orator named William Jennings Bryan gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention condemning the gold standard for setting the ...

Free silver, free lunch." And the William, uh, Jennings Bryan speeches when he was running for president... APPRAISER: Mm-hmm. GUEST: ...in 1896 were mostly on putting free silver into the markets.