On TV, political conventions play as a highly choreographed parade of speeches, soaring videos and cutaway shots of enthusiastic delegates. In person, these events are somewhat chaotic theater ...

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 ...

A highly fractured political climate pervaded our country throughout the year, and we captured the grassroots campaigns in towns across the country, the political pomp of political conventions ...

That’s all a convention is supposed to do. The Republican gathering this year, however, was the ultimate expression of the political convention as a creepy cult meeting.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves to the crowd after speaking at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images ...

A summer of political turbulence has delivered a fall campaign almost no one believed possible earlier in the year. With Labor Day over, the traditional kickoff to the final sprint to Election Day ...

Nobody cares. (PHOTOS: The Romney-Ryan Road Trip to Tampa) Political conventions are over. Once, they meant something.

The 2024 convention however, delivered a higher audience than the 2020 convention on three of the four nights. The second night, with an average of 14.8 million viewers, had dragged the four-day ...

That’s all a convention is supposed to do. The Republican gathering this year, however, was the ultimate expression of the political convention as a creepy cult meeting.