LONDON — Britain’s upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years. Many analysts believe it will be one of the country’s most ...

Strikes in the late-1970s left supermarket shelves bare - Ken Goff/Getty Images During the 1979 election, Whitehall civil servants prepared briefings for incoming ministers should there be a change of ...

Republican Jay Dardenne’s break with party ranks Thursday to endorse Democrat John Bel Edwards for governor brought back a time 36 years ago when the same thing happened. In 1979, four unsuccessful ...

In his first edition of “The News — Your Newspaper” as the editor of the paper, Murray Light took readers behind the scenes for Election Night 1979. While the basic premise of covering election night ...

As this column has had cause to mention in the past few weeks, the 2023 presidential election of February 25 in Nigeria, was a reincarnation in key respects of the 1979 presidential election that was ...