The convention pin era roughly coincided with the early years of the internet. National Journal’s website was for a time known as PoliticsNow, and the editors used pins to increase its name ...

Will there be a virtual balloon-drop? That is about the only intrigue left when it comes to what will happen at this year’s national political conventions. Even more so than usual, the chance for high ...

In recent decades, the national political party conventions have ceased to be actual contests over presidential and vice-presidential nominations. The days of deal making between state party bosses ...

Party conventions used to nominate presidential candidates. Now that's all done in advance. Next week's Republican Party convention plans to break with tradition. Instead of waiting until Wednesday, ...

Political conventions can be decisive in shaping national politics and campaigns, even if they don’t decide the nominees for president anymore. Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore gained between ...

Political conventions were still held during the Civil War and WW2 but can they be held during the coronavirus pandemic? Organizers and politicians are adapting to the challenges faced by the ...

National party conventions, which long ago ceded the job of choosing presidential nominees to the primaries and caucuses, have two remaining jobs. The first one is public: The conventions are a ...

Bill Salisbury, who in almost 50 years as a political reporter with the Pioneer Press covered 40 sessions of the Minnesota Legislature, eight governors as well as presidential visits and state and ...

When Vice President Kamala Harris received her party’s presidential nomination via a “virtual roll call” Aug. 6 — 13 days before the Democratic National Convention, which begins Monday in Chicago — it ...

Political conventions can be decisive in shaping national politics and campaigns, even if they don’t decide the nominees for president anymore.