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 ...

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“What you do is build a good organization and then wait for a break,” explained energetic John Grenier, executive director of the national Goldwater-Miller campaign. “That’s what the Kennedys did in ...

Researching the history of the Republican Party in the early 1960s bears relevance to today, particularly given events from Jan. 6, 2021, onward. During the latter part of the 1950s, the John Birch ...

Senator Barry Goldwater (1909-1998), whose 1960 best-seller Conscience of a Conservative helped define the modern conservative movement, was by 1996 describing himself and Bob Dole as ""the new ...