Excerpt from the Know Nothing Platform About 1855 An upstart political party reveals its platform "The 'Order of Know Nothings' … are Americans by birth, the descendants of those who laid the foundation of our national...

The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to American values and...

State politics is a yawn these days. The players are tiny and bloodless. Beacon Hill rivals the QVC Shopping Network for drama. Hungry for the good old days - any good old days - the Observer calls Peter Drummey, librarian of the Massachusetts Historical...

Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani did a fine job achieving their objectives in Wednesday's Republican presidential debate: Each thoroughly discredited the other. They also disgraced themselves as they pandered relentlessly to the growing anti-immigrant feeling in their party. Mike Huckabee and John...

Nikolay Davydenko "has nothing whatsoever to do" with the suspicious betting patterns on his second-round match at the Prokom Open, the player's agent said.ATP Tour officials are investigating the fourth-ranked Davydenko's loss Thursday to the 87th-ranked Martin Vassallo Arguello of Argentina in which the Russian...

Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor "knows nothing about the situation."Carter, author of a new book advocating "peace not apartheid" in the region, said he will not visit Brandeis University...