Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Democratic strategist James Carville yelled down Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg as the two finally went head to head after months of sparring from afar over the future of the ...

The civil war in the Democratic Party ratcheted up another notch as a group founded by Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg said it plans to spend millions to unseat Democratic ...