WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – National political conventions are often considered infomercials for the major party’s candidates, but this year the events will also let Democrats and Republicans focus ...

Texas Baptists elected an ordained female clergywoman as convention president this week for the first time ever.

Everything kicks off with Iowa's caucuses. The 2024 presidential race kicks off on Monday night in Iowa, when the state holds its first-in-the-nation caucuses. New Hampshire's primary will be held ...

Modern political conventions are like a Super Bowl minus the game. They are the bling on the body politic: shiny, pretty and a touch goofy. They exist to be seen, more than to do. They are like a Miss ...

The Democratic Party that convenes in Boston this week now bears the same name as the one that convened in Chicago 72 years ago, but not much else is the same. Quite apart from the innumerable ways in ...

During two dramatic weeks rocked by political feuds, an email-hacking scandal and two competing visions of the future of America, Georgetown students were invited to witness the action of the 2016 ...

President Trump has given up on holding a typical political convention in Jacksonville next month as Florida remains a coronavirus hotspot. Democrats have long planned a mostly virtual gathering to ...

There are many reasons why national political conventions have become so clichéd and boring. The central one is this: they’re all about preaching to the converted. Even Clint Eastwood’s infamously ...

Convinced that terrorists are determined to disrupt the presidential election by attacking the United States, the government is mounting a massive homeland security effort as the run-up to the two ...

As the American political-convention season chugs along, what has been the response in China, a country that reliably emerges as a whipping boy for both political parties during U.S. electoral ...