It's a presidential election year, which means the party conventions are a fixture on the summer schedules of every political pundit and reporter. In the past, the big conventions were gatherings ...

President Joe Biden at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President ...

The party conventions are over — and I don’t just mean the 2020 conventions. In one sense, the conventions have been over for a very long time. They were created primarily to do two things: pick ...

In recent decades, the national political party conventions have ceased to be actual contests over presidential and ...

Party conventions used to nominate presidential candidates. Now that's all done in advance. Next week's Republican Party convention plans to break with tradition. Instead of waiting until Wednesday, ...

Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the nominee, it will ultimately be up to Democratic National Convention delegates to ...

The cheering, clapping and speechifying are over. Historians from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have returned after their trips to the 2024 political party conventions to ...

Unlike the two political branches of government, the executive and the legislative, which are always in the public eye, from president to governor to mayor (and somewhat less from the Congress to the ...

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It seems an ideal time, between the two parties’ national conventions, to reflect on conventions I have attended over the years. Most of my experiences were as an assistant on the Republican platform ...

President Joe Biden at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President ...