Critics have suggested that the Mexican flag in this context shows loyalty to a foreign country rather than the United States. President Donald Trump and his allies have pounced on the opportunity to ...

Deborah J. Schildkraut is a political science professor at Tufts University. This article was produced in partnership with Zócalo Public Square. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times .

Thomas Nast, a German-born political cartoonist, and a Republican is credited with perpetuating the donkey and elephant as symbols for the Democratic and Republican Parties. Nast first used the ...

You may be surprised to learn that the relationship between the elephant and donkey and political parties in the U.S. goes all the way back to the mid-1800s.Read on to find out how we got here.