Throughout the relatively short history of the US, it’s become a tradition that presidents have their coffins draped in the ...

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Eric and Eliot provide their thumbnail review of the Trump-Harris debate and then welcome their special guest Lindsay ...

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The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...