It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times "the Jacksonian era." ...

We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times “the Jacksonian era.” ...

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

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.

With his dizzying moves to slash spending, abolish government departments and lay off much of the federal workforce, Donald ...

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

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

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice ...

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.