Younger people have told me that Kamala Harris’s defeat felt like 2016 squared. Her loss took me back to 1972, ...

George McGovern will be remembered chiefly as the first of several liberals to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination and lose the general election in spectacular fashion.

Despite his reputation as a pacifist, George McGovern said the Allies should have bombed Auschwitz — an episode with which the late senator and presidential candidate had a little-known personal ...

For millions of Americans, her hop up onto a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun and the click of a camera transformed actress ...

But Kraft had read about George McGovern’s extraordinary 1972 Democratic primary campaign, which saw the little-known senator ride a surprise showing in the Iowa Caucuses to the nomination. He’d ...

Hand signed by BOTH George McGovern and Calder. Framed. Hand-signed by artist, Hand signed and numbered in pencil by Alexander Calder AND inscribed and signed in ink by George McGovern. Bears Styria ...

I struggled for a way to memorialize the dawning in Washington of Hell's Encore. Finally, I gave up and fell back on what I think is the greatest paragraph of political journalism of at least the last ...

He was elected to the Senate in 1972, the same year as George McGovern’s epic loss. McGovern ran on the slogan of “Come Home America,” and, as a freshman U.S. senator, Biden backed cutting ...

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Ellis Alexander was taken off guard, to say the least, by a moment he won’t soon forget.