Even for former U.S. President Donald Trump, a master at attention-getting, trying to counterprogram during the Democratic National Convention is nearly impossible. When one party’s members and ...

An attendee takes part in the 2012 Republican Convention in Tampa, Fla. (Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) Tevi Troy is a presidential historian and former White House aide ...

Here's how conventions work. and Democratic parties will meet this month to choose their presidential nominees. The Republican National Convention 2016 and Democratic National Convention 2016 take ...

A virtual convention is, at some level, political operatives’ dream, because so much more is under their tight control. Logistics aren’t as messy, travel costs not nearly as high.

Both parties' ambitious plans reflect the maturation of social media sites that played a much smaller role in the conventions four years ago. The Republicans call theirs a "convention without ...

No balloons. No parties. No delegates. And no cheering throngs greeting candidates. These national political conventions will be like none you’ve ever seen. Due to the coronavirus, the ...

EDITORIAL End the political convention as we know it The parties don’t need mass televised gatherings, whether or not there’s a pandemic. They need to reconnect with the American people.

Watching the first night of the Democratic National Convention, it is refreshing to see a political party focused on addition. In 2016, nonwhite turnout declined for the first time in more than a ...

Conventions themselves haven't really been particularly surprising in their outcomes since 1968, when the Democratic convention was in an uproar because even though Eugene McCarthy got more delegates ...

Chicago’s first political convention in 1860 resulted in Abraham Lincoln being nominated. But lots has happened here since.

Asked if there is any precedent for two parties holding such very different modes of convention, political scientist Byron Shafer paused before reaching back to the year 1872, when the much ...

Aug. 28, 2012 -- By definition, a convention is "a formal meeting of members, representatives or delegates, as of a political party, fraternal society, profession or industry," and that's what ...