The current political discourse is confounded by a deficiency in our vocabulary. It is a deficiency that can be cured, only, by recourse to the legacy of The New York Sun, coiner of the term “mugwump.

On Nov. 19, President Donald J. Trump acquiesced to House Republicans and signed the release of the infamous Epstein files. Trump, or “Teflon Don,” has quite the knack for getting controversies to ...

Troubling times, deep political divisions, economic disruption, and social and racial inequality. Throw in raging wildfires and the hellfire of a pandemic, and I could be talking about today. But, in ...

In letter on Dec. 30, Joan B. Edwards of Winthrop asked for the definition of the term “mugwump.” In the politics of the 1880s, the Mugwumps were a reform-minded branch of the Republican Party based ...

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