Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week ...

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week ...

Here's how each symbol came to be associated with the Democratic and Republican parties: Origins: The donkey first became associated with the Democratic Party during Andrew Jackson's presidential ...

Some of the most caustic cartoons have no reference whatever to Roosevelt, Parker, Herrick, or Higgins. A visit to the Lenox Library is necessary to see them, and for students of political history ...

In 1828, a man named Andrew Jackson ... ran a corrupt political group in New York. Nast drew a lot of political cartoons, and he is credited with making the donkey and elephant famous symbols ...

In the cartoon, Nast (1840-1902) was voicing his view that the Copperhead press had dishonored the legacy of Lincoln’s administration. Historians note that Andrew Jackson, the founder of the ...

The donkey has been the unofficial mascot of the Democrats since Andrew Jackson's ... Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist in his era, used a donkey in an 1870 cartoon for Harper's Weekly.