I read with interest the editorial by Gary Franks in the Sunday Times (Aug. 11). I had not realized the progressive gains accomplished under Republican leadership during past decades. However, ...

A group of House Republicans, led by Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, have requested Fiscal Year 2026 spending bills to include language prohibiting federal funding for transgender experiments on animals.

During a debate about a proposed bill that would strengthen consequences for people convicted of animal abuse, Rep. Walt Blackman engaged in a heated exchange on May 20 with fellow Republican Rep ...

The Republican elephant was first seen in an 1874 cartoon by satirist and conservative cartoonist Thomas Nast of Harper's Weekly. "The elephant was a wing of the party that was stodgy and immobile ...

The Republican elephant (“the sluggish animal”) is lying on and blocking the road to an election victory. By 1880, other cartoonists had picked up the symbols and spread them across the country.