Americans are entrenched into their partisan corners, but the party lines keep moving in weird new ways. Republicans who grew up in the Grand Old Party might not recognize a party overtaken by the ...

Politics / The dead hand of gerontocracy is also a symptom of ideological malaise. Jeet Heer In theory, the Democratic Party is a political organization aimed at gaining power and implementing an ...

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Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that party had ceased to exist.

The dead hand of gerontocracy is also a symptom of ideological malaise. In theory, the Democratic Party is a political organization aimed at gaining power and implementing an agenda. In practice ...