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A failure to reach a majority consensus signals the doom of an American political party, writes Thomas Balcerski.

(CNN) — Editor’s note: Thomas Balcerski teaches history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the author of “Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King”

California Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the first House speaker to be removed from post. What the history of the motion to vacate portends for the GOP without him, per historian Thomas Balcerski.

California Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the first House speaker to be removed from post. What the history of the motion to vacate portends for the GOP without him, per historian Thomas Balcerski.

If elected, he would join an even more elite club -- as one of only three White House occupants to be unmarried at the time he took office. Scott's bachelorhood isn't directly on the ballot in the same way his policies on the economy and abortion are. Scott, a Republican, has a standard answer for the curious or the chatty, including anonymous sources who claimed to the news website Axios that the matter was affecting potential donors.

Her former private secretary said he was jealous of how the Princess Royal refrained from drinking alcohol.

The video speculated whether Americas 16th president had male lovers in a video that was published last year.

The crown usually dooms royal siblings to a life of jealousy and suspicion. But the love between Queen Elizabeth and Margaret endured through scandals, a constitutional crisis and a string of heartbreaks.

The crown usually dooms royal siblings to a life of jealousy and suspicion. But the love between Queen Elizabeth and Margaret endured through scandals, a constitutional crisis and a string of heartbreaks.

The late Queen Elizabeth II is probably the most written about monarch of all time – and you would be right to assume there will be more books to come.