Republican senatorial candidate Rand Paul has gotten in hot water recently over his views on the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act. Paul, though reiterating his personal hatred of discrimination, ...

It was August 1974 and Sen. Barry Goldwater was denying stories that he had informed his colleagues that President Nixon was about to resign. "I am not allowed to swear," he told reporters, "but it is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republicans gathered in Milwaukee this week to officially nominate Donald Trump for president, a continuation of the GOP’s ...

Mario R. DiNunzio is a professor emeritus of history at Providence College. “Government is the problem.” Ronald Reagan intoned that warning to the happy crowd at his first presidential inaugural. His ...

Now the Goldwater bandwagon came rolling into the convention city. And behind the wheel, breezy and relaxed as a one-arm driver who is supremely confident of conquest in his courtship, sat Barry ...

It almost seemed like a nominating convention. The organ roared; there were banners, signs and demonstrators. Then, as 1,800 Republicans cheered, clapped and whistled, Arizona’s Republican Senator ...

Republicans gathered in Milwaukee this week to officially nominate Donald Trump for president, a continuation of the GOP’s decadeslong march to the far right. That hard turn started 60 years ago this ...