U.S. Politics

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President Clinton and Vice President Gore sitting in the Oval Office in 1996.
An October Surprise Again?
Senator Joe Lieberman
Accepting Joseph Lieberman: The Electorate Grows Up
President Lyndon B. Johnson giving a speech about the Voting Rights Act with a statute of President Abraham Lincoln in the background.
The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History
Photo of "Fighting Bob" La Follette
Lessons for the Nader Camp: ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette in 1924
Dick Cheney in 2003.
The Vice President: Heir Apparent in American Politics
President Bill Clinton addressing a high school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.
The Politics of Compassion
Portrait of Jane Addams
Million Moms March in Noble Company
Campaign poster attacking Cleveland's morals.
Morality and Presidential Elections
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.
Spring Marches on Washington
George Washington Bridge Flag Retirement Ceremony
Who’s Desecrating the Flag, Anyhow?
University of Notre Dame's administration building.
The Catholic Voter in the Twentieth Century
World War II poster of American, British, Chinese, and Russian soldiers shaking hands.
Patrick Buchanan’s Forebears
With its rhetoric of "the 99%" (the people) against "the 1%" (the elite), the international Occupy movement is an example of a (left-wing) populist social movement.
A New Populism in the United States
Ellis Island, New York City.
Hiding Behind Reform
A gay march in Minneapolis on June 30, 1973, the first in the country with the headline "Gay Pride".
Homosexuality and Prohibition
President Richard Nixon in 1969.
The Broken Scandal-Reform Cycle
Bust of Abraham Lincoln.
Getting Wrong with Lincoln
Bronze statue of Sir William Blackstone.
Back to the 17th Century: Money and Political Speech
Barry Goldwater in 1964.
The History of the “Right Wing Conspiracy”
A glass negative of Warren G. Harding.
Sex Scandals and U.S. History
President Bill Clinton in 1999.
History of Sixth-Year Elections Bodes Well for Democrats
President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton in 1993.
Why Clinton Will Survive
Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.
President’s Commission on Race a Failure
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)—Article 19 states that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Free Speech: Still Under Threat