Markey said the president's cuts to federal programs is part of a plan to create tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires ...

Ross Macdonald’s “The Underground Man” is exquisitely attuned to the Californian landscape—how it rises, falls, smells, and, ...

Anyone aiming to understand folk musician Pete Seeger and his undying belief that music can make the world a better place should read this Inquirer essay from 1998.

“Kennedy was wary of them,” said Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall, author of JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 ... and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.

New Hampshire's early primary elections mark the end of the beginning of any presidential election, the tingling time when the candidates actually begin to pile up their convention votes. A Family ...

He defeated Adlai Stevenson with 57% in 1952, winning everywhere but Hudson, Mercer and Camden counties. Eisenhower swept all 21 New Jersey counties in 1956, defeating Stevenson by a 65%-34% margin.

In 1956, Meyner had officially remained neutral in the presidential ... who went to the convention still neutral and wound up delivering New Jersey to Adlai Stevenson on the first ballot. Gov. Alfred ...