Robert B. Mitchell

Last minute disclosures or revelations can play an outsized role in the last weeks before an election.

Roscoe Conkling was a successful politician and an able lawyer. But the colorful and irascible senator had no desire to serve on the high court.

Suspending his presidential campaign might be the best way to advance Sanders’s movement, but it could leave some supporters bitter.

In 1874, Democrats picked up an astounding 94 seats in the 293-seat House.

Embracing the swamp won't sink Trump immediately. But it will sink him eventually.