What happened to the Whigs in the 1850s? And will the same thing happen to today’s Democrats? After the Federalist Party of ...

Oct. 27 marks the anniversary of the release of Federalist No. 1. We should remember its lessons on civil discourse.

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United ...

In 1798, the Federalist Party controlled the presidency under John Adams and Congress, but by a narrow margin over the Democratic-Republican Party. With intent to stay in power, the Federalist ...

Conservatism is dead in the national Republican Party. For the casual follower of politics, the near clean sweep of state and territorial contests by former President Donald Trump in the Republican ...

“Perhaps this was the most awful scene I have ever witnessed,” Sussex County native William Morgan wrote nearly four decades after the 1805 lightning strike on the Georgetown courthouse. “[Dr. Jacob] ...

Is the Democratic Party destined to go the way of the Federalist Party and Whigs? Will Rogers famously observed, “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” He was poking ...