Eric and Eliot provide their thumbnail review of the Trump-Harris debate and then welcome their special guest Lindsay ...

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While it is rare for foreign policy differences between the political parties to affect electoral outcomes, it has happened ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Lindsay Chervinsky about lessons on the American presidency that can be learned from the then fledgling nation's second president, John Adams.

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President George Washington issued his Farewell Address on this day in history, Sept. 19, 1796. He spoke proudly of the new ...

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

The chicanery that would ensue as a result would usher in yet another constitutional crisis that would test the American ...

When George Washington took the oath of office as the nation’s first president in New York City the following year, Rhode ...

He first assigned the case to Alito but took it over himself days after the Times revealed Alito’s wife Martha-Ann hung an ...

Quadrennially, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the U. S. people perform what they call "electing a President." That is the effect of their performance, but not ...