A consideration of the big ideas on small political buttons.

We'd go to places and go to an antique store and they had these old buttons we picked up." That tiny act inspired Desey to spend the next half-century accumulating a massive collection of more than ...

The American Political Items Collectors gather in Canton annually. This year collectors weighted in on the upcoming election.

Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government's political buttons collection has approximately 4,800 buttons and pins and 200 stickers.

There are a lot of weird ways to predict the winner of a presidential election. Some people do it based on candidate height. There's a soothsaying monkey known to make the right pick. There's even ...

"Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid" and Errol Morris's "Separated" were lucky to get out before the election. But ...

Thought to be the first Sudanese American official elected to public office in the U.S., Mazahir Salih, finds immigration to ...

A few states do allow voters to wear political apparel at the polls, as long as certain rules are followed. For instance, in ...

An outfit may not be the first thing most people think of before heading to the polls, but a misstep while dressing could jeopardize one’s vote.

At one of the sales, Mihaly’s father bought a group of old political buttons that intrigued them both. “I started with buttons, and then naturally I just sort of started looking for No. 11 and ...