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The US has given military aid to Israel since the 1960s, backed by both domestic and regional strategic interests, including containing Iran.
While celebrities are unlikely to decisively shift whom many people choose to vote for, their endorsement of a political candidate can still help shape an election.
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.
Police clashed with anti-war protestors during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. This year’s convention, also in Chicago, takes place in a similarly charged political and social environment.
As the Democratic National Convention returns to Chicago, there’s an appetite in that city to revisit films from the bloody and violent time the convention was last held in that city: 1968.
Will there be Minnesota hot dish hats worn at the upcoming Democratic National Convention? Curators from the Smithsonian will be there, looking for both routine and unconventional campaign items.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will officially accept their nominations at the Democratic National Convention. A scholar of the presidency shares memorable moments from previous events.
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and his inauguration mark an important change for the roughly 3 million people in the United States who stutter.
Two scholars react to Biden’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.
This year’s technological adaptations may signal a permanent shift in the way nominating conventions meet and the way voters watch them – but it’s not the first time.
Internal party rules make it harder to attract independents, who make up about one-third of US voters.
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Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
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Department Head and Associate Professor of African American Studies, Penn State
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Professor and Founding Director, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
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Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
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Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
