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President-elect has indicated the U.S. will make Greenland purchase a priority in post about new ambassador to Denmark

Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat reveals the curious link between Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Black African prime minister

At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare

From the intimate to the infamous, these pictures of US commanders-in-chief (and a few also-rans) capture moments of tragedy and hope at the heart of the White House

Hubert Humphrey and Jimmy Carter are the only post-WWII candidates from an incumbent party to lose despite a preelection market surge.

In response to national pollsters’ failure in forecasting election outcomes in 1948 and 1952, The New York Times pursued in 1956 a weekslong, multistate exercise in on-the-ground reporting to assess public opinion about the presidential race.

Criminalizing such promises would violate the First Amendment

Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too. They’re self-described “scavengers” of the physical objects that make…

Sir Keir Starmer and Joe Biden’s working relationship may be different to that of forerunners, such as Theresa May and Donald Trump, and Gordon Brown and Barack Obama

As Biden faces Trump – again– for the first time in more than 50 years, Republicans will rerun a candidate who lost a presidential election

The U.S. government will pay close to $900 billion this year just in interest payments on the national debt.