Why did the working class switch sides? By David Paul Kuhn A shift from preventing inequality in the first place to fixing it after the fact has cost the party, a paper argues. By Peter Coy Whether he ...

Director of the McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service As the director of the McGovern Center at Dakota Wesleyan University, one of my responsibilities is to re-focus and revitalize the ...

George McGovern, who died today at 90, was the Democratic standard bearer in one of the party’s biggest presidential drubbings, losing to Richard Nixon in 1972 after a chaotic, divided and quixotic ...

We have been reminded by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that fifty years ago on June 17, 1972, the Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate was broken into by those who worked for the Committee for ...

Former North Dakota Gov. George Sinner praised George McGovern Sunday as "one of the truly outstanding people who have come out of this part of the world, not afraid to speak truth from his heart." ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Congressman who is carrying on the late South Dakota Senator George McGovern’s mission to end hunger in the United State is one step closer to that goal. President Biden ...

George McGovern was an unwavering, often unrequited advocate for liberal Democratic causes. He pursued those goals in plainspoken, usually understated, Midwestern style. He was a dedicated, decent man ...

Former South Dakota Democratic Sen. George McGovern, who died Sunday, had all manner of evil said about him because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was called unpatriotic, disloyal, an ...

McGovern died at a hospice in Sioux Falls, S.D., where he had been admitted Monday. Steve Hildebrand, a spokesman for the family, said in a statement to NBC News: "At approximately 5:15 am CT [6: 15 a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Charles Tiefer covers Congress, the Pentagon and procurement. The first example that comes to mind of Bob Dole as a bipartisan ...