Typical contemporary illustrations of the Democratic ... These very public “recruiting” efforts led Nast to create the familiar political symbols that have lasted longer than either of the ...

Symbolism over substance" is a consistent critique of political parties and political leaders, regardless of one's political leanings. There is nothing wrong with symbols or symbolism. From the ...

Jamia Wilson is the executive director of Women, Action and the Media and a staff writer at Rookie magazine. She is on Twitter. Updated August 3, 2016, 6:20 PM Recently, I was given a jacket made ...

JD Vance’s face has become a symbol of internet meme culture, distorted and exaggerated countless times on social media. With ...

The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United States through a combination of political satire and popular culture, primarily driven by cartoonists in the 19th century.

Yet most Americans would be surprised to learn that both political symbols (as well as Santa Claus and Uncle Sam) were popularized, and given their modern forms, by the same maverick cartoonist.

“I think it’s a highly problematic use of a symbol that the Nazis used to identify their political enemies,” Jacob S. Eder, a historian of modern Germany at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in ...

New images reflecting contemporary life have also ... In both instances, party symbols have evolved to possess significant political capital – as evidenced by the wrangling that has occurred ...

These are three of the hundreds of symbols that appear on electronic voting machines in India, each representing one of the nearly 2,300 political ... to an urbanized, modern India," says Chakraborty.