Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that party had ceased to exist.

The nation faced growing conflict over slavery and westward expansion, which led to dissent within the two major political parties, the Democrats and the Whigs. Nativist cartoons from the 1840s ...

HBO's Bill Maher took California Gov. Gavin Newsom to task for not living up to his promise of deregulating California, urging him to "DOGE the s---" out of the bureaucracy.

Anthony Scaramucci foresees a possible division within the GOP, attributing it to President Trump's trade policies.

Yet the party divided and eventually dissolved over the issue of slavery with the "Cotton Whigs" joining the Democrats and the northern "Conscience Whigs" like Lincoln joining the new Republican ...