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U.S. Department of Homeland Security seal.
Sharing the Burdens of War
In an address to a joint-session of the US Congress on September 20, 2001, US President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban deliver Osama bin Laden and destroy bases of al-Qaeda.
Bush Should Consider the Fate of Wartime Presidents
Painting of Alexander Hamilton.
A Golden Opportunity for the Social Security Trust Fund
President George W. Bush talking on the phone the day of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
War May Raise Serious Issues at Home
Old man sitting alone in a park.
Social Security Reform for All
President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.
Marking a Tragic Anniversary
Election Day in Philadelphia 1815 by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions.
How We Learned to Love the Constitution
Electoral college results from the 2008 presidential election.
Break Up the States?
From left to right, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Vice President Dick B. Cheney having a working lunch in 2007.
Foreign Policy Doesn’t Need a Mandate
A photo of Al Gore I\in Manchester, New Hampshire, campaigning for President of the United States in 1999
The Case of the Disappearing Vice President
An 1889 lithograph of the Historic Capitol of Tallahassee, Florida
For History’s Sake, Preserve Florida’s Presidential Ballots
President Clinton and President-Elect Bush in December 2000.
Leadership and the New Bush Administration
Grover Cleveland-Benjamin Harrison presidential (1888) campaign poster about the trade policy of the two candidates
Reform: The Long-Term Winner in Close Elections
Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly. Lithograph from the painting by A. Chappal. Engraved by H. B. Hall.
A Time to Listen
Florida Supreme Court during the 2000 presidential election recount.
Disputed Elections: An American Tradition
Map of the Electoral College for the 2024 United States presidential election.
Arguing the Electoral College: Con
In the 2020 presidential election (held using 2010 census data) Joe Biden received 306 (●) and Donald Trump 232 (●) of the total 538 electoral votes. In Maine (upper-right) and Nebraska (center), the small circled numbers indicate congressional districts. These are the only two states to use a district method for some of their allocated electors, instead of a complete winner-takes-all.
Arguing the Electoral College: Pro
Statue of Samuel J. Tilden in New York City.
Presidential Electoral Controversy Nothing New in Florida
Restored color photo of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Will an Eighteenth-Century Election System Paralyze America in the Twenty-First Century?
Chris Anderson asks: "Will you run again?" Gore replies, "Ohh, you aren't going to get me on this one!"
But Gore Did Help Invent the Internet
Photo of Eugene V. Debs from 1900.
Let’s Hear It for the Losers!
Caricature of President Nixon in 1970.
Patrick J. Buchanan: a Populist, Not a Conservative
U.S. Supreme Court building.
Tearing Down the “Wall of Separation between Church and State”
President Clinton and Vice President Gore sitting in the Oval Office in 1996.
An October Surprise Again?