Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the legacy of presidential history, Harry Truman may be best remembered by one photograph. So how did the 33rd president wind ...

Donald Trump’s stunning victory in 2016 led many to wonder how the pollsters and pundits got it so wrong and how the national media were so clueless about what was happening in America. Well, it’s ...

Rhodes Cook is a veteran Washington political analyst who tracks national elections and voting trends and publishes a bimonthly political newsletter. Click here for Cook's full bio.It has been 60 ...

For a decade bassist/singer James Reader and drummer Scott Frazier were in two different “Casbah bands” that went on to get national buzz: Red Dye No. 5 and, later, Dewey Defeats Truman. The 1995 Red ...

A friend just came across an old quote of mine from a 1980s Wall Street Journal story by Dennis Farney: “Thomas E. Dewey was criticized as being the little man on the wedding cake, but today we TRY to ...

As a presidential candidate, Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York was not a glad-hander, not a flesh-presser. He was stiff and tended toward pomposity. “The only man who could strut sitting down” was the ...

Seventy-five years ago to the day, our presses rolled out the most notorious headline in this newspaper’s 176-year history: “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” Well, no, he didn’t. When the presses rolled on the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In this presidential election year, historian and journalist A.J. Baime has given America a winner — “Dewey Defeats Truman,” ...

The United States would normally be entering the most heated three months of the presidential campaign season right now. Lingering fear of the coronavirus, however, combined with overwrought safety ...

Kamela Harris’s run for the presidency is showing earmarks of the above-the-fray campaign that Thomas E. Dewey mounted for president in 1948, losing what pollsters, pundits and the press then regarded ...