Trump is targeting courts across the country as judges block several of his decisions. The move has already been tried by ...

By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun in the mid-19th century.

This difference became especially pronounced by the 1830s, when a growing divide between Andrew Jackson’s Democratic party and the opposition Whig party came to define the American political debate.

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

Inconveniently, Jackson ... by the first Democratic National Convention, and there is something to be said for the man who founded what is now the world’s oldest political party.

Only by doing so can we preserve the democratic legacy passed down by our Founding Fathers and expanded by the likes of Andrew Jackson. • Miles Yu is the director of the China Center at the ...

Although his party had only narrow margins in Congress ... disadvantaged his proposed successor. Sarah Igo is the Andrew Jackson Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University and the ...

Trump has shown an affinity with many of the little guys — what he called in 2017 "the forgotten men and women." But he also ...

Other changes made to the Oval Office include a bust of British wartime leader Winston Churchill and a portrait of Andrew Jackson ... the basis for the Democratic Party.