Bush’s dispatching of three sons to the three big states where Republican conservatism was poised to flourish—Florida, Texas, and Colorado (the last for the forgotten son, Neil, in whom the greatest ...

The rush to call last week’s attack “Israel’s 9/11” brings the worst failings of American foreign policy to the surface. George W. Bush at the Israeli Presidential Conference in 2008, at the Jerusalem ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When in the future a Democratic administration coincides with a Republican-held House, President Trump advised on Twitter early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian Joshua Zeitz tweeted Friday night that he was asked earlier this week whether there was a historical precedent for Texas ...

Look at the examples. Bill Clinton in 1994 -- lost 53 seats. Barack Obama in 2010 -- lost 63 seats. Donald Trump in 2018 -- lost 40 seats. Sometimes, if a president had a really high job approval ...

Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many in Washington foresee a new Cold War between the United States and China. The comparison to the U.S.-Soviet confrontation enjoys remarkable ...

Historical analogy : the railroad and the space program and their impact on society / Bruce Mazlish -- A technological frontier : the railway / Thomas Parke Hughes -- Railroads as an analogy to the ...

It’s always the same story: A new technology appears and everyone starts talking about how it’ll change everything. Then capital rushes in, companies form overnight, and valuations climb faster than ...

If history is any guide, Democrats do not have a chance – not even a small a chance – of keeping control of the House in the midterm elections. But the question is: Is history any guide? There’s been ...

IN MIDTERM POLITICS, HISTORICAL ANALOGIES WORK — UNTIL THEY DON’T. If history is any guide, Democrats do not have a chance — not even a small a chance — of keeping control of the House in the midterm ...