While the Republican Party platform has typically included anti-abortion language, this year’s platform is curiously silent on the issue.
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Eric Adams, the New York mayor facing an indictment that could end his career and send him to jail, long boasted that his swagger was good for the city. But swagger doesn’t make a good mayor.
Walz, who is set to debate JD Vance on Oct. 1, comes from a particular kind of progressive politics in the Midwest, united under the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
History illustrates that voters become galvanized and change their party allegiance when former US presidents run for a nonconsecutive term.
Democrats have been losing rural voters across the US since the 1960s, and that collapse has fueled Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ movement.
Of the four presidential and vice presidential candidates, only Tim Walz did not mention China in his convention speech − and he is the only one with personal knowledge of the country.
The secret of the successful speeches at the Democratic National Convention lies in three words with origins in ancient Greece: ethos, pathos and logos
The best an opposing party can hope for during convention week is some sort of misfire. But those are rare in this era of scripted conventions designed to minimize controversy.
Chicago has been a site of both discord and hope for the Democrats. As the party nominates Kamala Harris this week, it will seek to put conflict behind it.
Walz has a formidable resume as a former schoolteacher, football coach and national guardsman-turned-politician.
The fight for women’s reproductive rights could be a big vote-winner for Kamala Harris.
Handing VP Kamala Harris the Democratic presidential nomination without having her compete in primaries is a throwback to less democratic ways of picking nominees, a political scientist says.
Pennsylvania’s governor has a long history of bipartisan negotiations and seizing moments in the spotlight.
No Democrat from California has ever won the US presidency.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
An expert discusses the key points arising from the Israeli prime minister’s speech to US Congress.
From geographic balancing to making up for what the presidential candidate lacks, the considerations for picking a vice presidential candidate have changed and evolved since the 19th century.
Kamala Harris’ career as a prosecutor lets her use law-and-order themes to fight back against America’s first convicted felon former president.
Even though Biden has endorsed Harris, the process is more complicated than that, and it all leads to the party’s convention in August.
Harris bring admired debate skills as a career prosecutor but also a patchy performance as vice president to the race against Trump.
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