The months-long frenzy surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election both masked and underscored the presence of a very ...

It seems the US Democratic Party has a new logo, or at least a new profile pic on social media. The design is instantly familiar because a donkey icon has long been associated with the party, even if ...

Perhaps it's time for the GOP to change its mascot. I would like to propose that Republicans ditch the elephant and adopt the rhinoceros. According to the United States national archives ...

Strangely, the traditional icons of the Democrats' donkey and the Republicans' elephant seem to have been heavily inspired by the same cartoonist. And the animal mascots weren't exactly intended ...

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The eight Republican presidential hopefuls ... the subject that Fox New moderator Bret Baier called the “elephant not in the room”— Donald Trump, the former ...

As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant represents the Republican Party and the donkey the Democratic Party. What is less well known is how the animals came to ...