In the fall of 1964, the Democratic Party seemed to have seized decisive control of US national politics. Returning from the terrible setback of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy the ...

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Civil service is another term for “professional workforce” and we want this in government, right? And yet, as I write this, our government is being taken over by the opposite kind of worker.

(Zach Roberts / NurPhoto via Getty Images) In the fall of 1964, the Democratic Party seemed to have seized decisive control ... than any candidate since 1820. The Democrats swept through the ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

In his first book of poetry, Burns wrote The Author’s Earnest Cry And Prayer “where he attacks the Whig Party”, which ... approach to patriotism, a more democratic way of doing nationhood.” ...