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Political life of Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra's political life: New Deal Democrat and Hollywood liberal, founding Committee for the First Amendment member, HUAC-era target, JFK's 1960 entertainer, then Nixon and Reagan supporter and 1980 Reagan inaugural chairman.
Political literature
Political literature (الأدب السياسي) is literature concerned with political themes and issues, spanning the political novel, prison writing, the press essay, and allegorical fiction; the term was in Arabic use by the early 1950s.
Political machine
Political machine: hierarchical party organization trading patronage, jobs, and favors for votes; classic form in US cities (Tammany Hall, Pendergast) 1850s–1950s; modern clientelist machines persist in Indonesia and the Philippines.
Political moderate
A political moderate avoids ideological extremes, holding centrist or mixed positions across economic and social dimensions. Survey research shows moderates are heterogeneous, including libertarians, communitarians, and inattentive respondents, and remain electorally pivotal.
Political movement
Political movement: sustained collective action outside formal government institutions, spanning social movements, interest groups, and hybrid movement parties; explained by resource mobilization, political process, and framing theories.
Political neutrality of constitutional monarchs
Political neutrality of constitutional monarchs is the convention that monarchs voice no public political opinions and act on ministers' binding advice, keeping the head of state unifying and above partisan contest.
Political novel
A political novel is a work of prose fiction in which politics is the dominant subject, a contested umbrella category whose study began with Morris Edmund Speare in 1924.
Political parties in the United States
Political parties in the United States: the Democratic and Republican parties, dominant since the Civil War under winner-take-all plurality elections, with a record 45% of adults identifying as independents in 2026.
Political party
Political party: an organized group seeking elective office to implement shared principles. Known via cadre, mass, catch-all, and cartel party models; present in 155 constitutions; central to democratic representation.
Political party loyalty of United States counties
County-level party loyalty in US elections: which party counties back repeatedly, measured by two-party vote share and partisanship indices; Democratic dominance of the 100 largest counties since the 1990s, Republican strength in small counties, and the 1996-2008 realignment.
Political party strength in U.S. states
Political party strength in U.S. states: seat, chamber, legislature, governorship, and trifecta counts tracked by NCSL; as of October 2026 Republicans hold 4,031 of 7,386 legislative seats, 28 legislatures, and 23 trifectas.
Political philosophy
Political philosophy is the normative branch of philosophy asking what justice, liberty, and legitimate authority require in politics, developed by Plato and Aristotle and distinct from empirical political science, though their boundary and complementarity remain actively debated.
Political poetry
Political poetry (الشعر السياسي) is Arabic poetry addressing political reform from an intellectual standpoint, from the pre-Islamic era to a peak in the Umayyad period.
Political polarization
Political polarization is the division of a polity into opposing ideological or partisan camps. Also called ideological and affective polarization, it is studied as social-identity-driven partisan animosity, measured by thermometer and social-distance items, and linked to democratic erosion in pernicious cases.
Political polarization in the United States
Political polarization in the United States: growing ideological and affective division between Democrats and Republicans, measured by Pew consistency trends, partisan antipathy, geographic sorting limits, and democratic backsliding concerns.
Political positions of Benjamin Netanyahu
Political positions of Benjamin Netanyahu: Likud leader and Israel's longest-serving prime minister; neoliberal economics, power-based foreign policy, opposition to Palestinian statehood, Iran focus, judicial overhaul, and exclusionary populism since 2009.
Political positions of Bernie Sanders
Political positions of Bernie Sanders: the Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist's platform, including Medicare for All, $15 minimum wage, tuition-free college, trade opposition, and gun and foreign policy records.
Political positions of Donald Trump
Political positions of Donald Trump: right-wing nationalist populism combining protectionist tariffs (Section 301, 232, IEEPA), restrictive immigration (472 first-term executive actions), deregulation and DOGE, and expanded executive power.
Political positions of Hillary Clinton
Political positions of Hillary Clinton: her views as US senator, 67th Secretary of State, and 2016 Democratic nominee. Covers Iraq and Patriot Act votes, Afghanistan surge and Libya advocacy, and her 2016 health care, immigration, and climate platform.
Political positions of JD Vance
Political positions of JD Vance (born 1984), Ohio senator and US vice president: economic populism, anti-Ukraine-aid isolationism, abortion and immigration restriction, transgender-care bans, Trump ally after being a 2016 Never Trump critic.
Political positions of Joe Biden
Joe Biden, the 46th US president, implemented major legislation like the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. His positions span decades of public office.
Political positions of Kamala Harris
Political positions of Kamala Harris: DA of San Francisco, California attorney general, US Senator, and Vice President under Biden; 2024 platform "A New Way Forward" covered taxes, housing, abortion, immigration, guns, and foreign policy, with shifts from her 2020 primary stances.
Political positions of Nigel Farage
Political positions of Nigel Farage: Brexit withdrawal, sharp immigration cuts including a UK ICE-style deportation agency, scrapping net zero, tax and spending cuts, and Trump-aligned anti-establishment populism through UKIP, the Brexit Party, and Reform UK.
Political positions of Noam Chomsky
Political positions of Noam Chomsky: the American linguist's anarcho-syndicalist and libertarian socialist views, his critique of state and corporate power, the Herman-Chomsky propaganda model, and U.S. foreign policy criticism.
Political positions of Pete Hegseth
Political positions of Pete Hegseth, 29th US Secretary of Defense (also styled secretary of war): warrior ethos, ending DEI, restricting women in combat, Christian nationalism, NATO burden-shifting, and controversies including the Signal chat and execution livestream.
Political positions of Rand Paul
Political positions of Rand Paul, Kentucky's libertarian-leaning Republican senator: fiscal restraint, Audit the Fed, anti-surveillance civil liberties, congressional war powers, free trade versus Trump tariffs, and conservative social positions.
Political positions of Ron Paul
Political positions of Ron Paul: libertarian, constitutionalist platform of the Texas congressman and three-time presidential candidate, covering noninterventionist foreign policy, ending the Fed, abolishing the income tax, state-level abortion laws, drug legalization, and civil liberties.
Political positions of the Republican Party (United States)
Political positions of the Republican Party (GOP): its platforms and policy stances from the 1856 antislavery founding platform through the 2024 America First platform on immigration, tariffs, energy, taxes, education, and entitlements.
Political positions of Zohran Mamdani
Political positions of Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayor and DSA democratic socialist: rent freeze, free buses, universal childcare, city-owned grocery stores, tax hikes on corporations and the wealthy, ICE resistance, and criticism of Israeli government policy.
Political prisoner
Political prisoner: person detained on politically motivated grounds; no agreed international legal definition, distinct from Amnesty's prisoner of conscience. Emerged 1865–1910; over one million worldwide by US State Department estimate.