By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Two hundred years ago this month, President John Quincy Adams took the oath of ...

Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a presidential candidate (Andrew Jackson) in 1828. While there is no precise date for the beginning of the Democratic ...

Weakening the professional civil service could turn back the clock to an era when government was rife with corruption.

The Tariff of Abominations was signed into law by John Quincy Adams in 1828. It was a major issue in that year’s election that swept Jackson and his new party, the Democratic Republicans ...

This smelled of corruption, and it fueled the rise of Andrew Jackson’s Democratic Republican (eventually just Democratic) Party ... After he defeated Adams in 1828, Jackson actively antagonized ...

Arthur", that encloses a pasture labelled "Public Office"; watching him are the Republican Elephant and the Democratic Donkey ... president and the political party that won the most recent ...

In1824 there was a realignment after a controversial election gave John Quincy Adams the presidency. For one, Adams led a more centrist wing of the Democratic Republicans which had absorbed most of ...

Having lost the backing and trust of the working class, how does it move on from the political desert it finds itself in and ...

For years, it’s been known that the biggest failure of the party has been its inability to communicate. The biggest advantage ...